Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
| 2 | Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time . |
| 3 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 4 | The Bangladesh government said on Feb. 24 that thousands were on the verge of starvation because relief efforts were inadequate . |
| 5 | And that was on a Bank Holiday ! |
| 6 | In the campaign itself there was one awkward moment and that was on the issue of private health . |
| 7 | And that was on the corner of er er Road and Street at . |
| 8 | Butchers and er then there was the butchers and that was on the corner of and er and and then cross over there towards Street you 've got the stores , then you come the , the er drapers , then er Tommy the butcher who was my first wife 's uncle and then you come to a shop which was owned by one or two people , which was a sort of er general store and then my mother-in-law 's shop a cook 's which was |
| 9 | And that was on the house ? |
| 10 | But I ca n't Oh ooh ! through Can you imagine if this was on the superstore sites . |
| 11 | The officer was released unharmed a few hours later … but Johnson , described by the police as armed and dangerous was on the run until this afternoon , when he was captured in a car park at Radlett in Hertfordshire . |
| 12 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 13 | TOMMY STEELE , the first Brit rocker , was doing the business in London , but across the pond , something far more disgusting and mercurial was on the move . |
| 14 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 15 | I already owned two sheds , but one was on the point of collapse , and the other was far too small for the amount of rubbish it held . |