Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 As there were lights on the backs of these boxes , the cars did not have stairhead lamps .
2 When Jarvis first rode the Bay Area Rapid Transit system , or BART , in San Francisco , there were carpets on the floors of cars and closed circuit television in operation .
3 Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets .
4 The road to Haworth goes up a hill , and there was ice on the stones of the road .
5 There was dust on the leaves of the riverside bushes .
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