Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the labourers were on the boat , he insisted that Melinda go into purdah . |
| 2 | The main emphasis of the notes was on the role of the Chief Officer and the Council in developing academic standards and institutional freedom . |
| 3 | The notes were on a mixture of papers , mostly loose-leaf ; ruled , plain , squared , graph . |
| 4 | Often , before the arrival of the hunters , somebody tipped off the clansmen that the authorities were on the way . |
| 5 | Gabriel noticed how grey the hairs were on the back of Woolley 's neck . |
| 6 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 7 | It seems that in some areas schools lost interest in the DCSL visits once the books were on the shelves . |
| 8 | Most of the winners were on the south and south west coasts , from Kent to Cornwall . |
| 9 | The plates were on the table . |
| 10 | Both Parties had some 6,000 members in 1934 , but the Communists were on the increase , while the ILP was declining , in financial difficulties and riddled with unofficial groups , two of them directly encouraged by the Communist Party . |
| 11 | Maybe a Quantas jet had landed and the hosties were on the rampage . |
| 12 | The Kewishs were on a rail tour over several routes not usually used by passenger trains . |
| 13 | Er the , the original question I had is whether if they do n't go ahead er whether we would have to have new primary legislation to revert to the current Euro constituencies and I said no we would n't because there is a commencement date , there is a commencement date that er the er er Home Secretary would not put into effect until he was er quite certain that all the countries were on the start line and the the and and the new and the new constituencies er could actually come properly into effect and the six extra members would be elected . |
| 14 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 15 | The ants were on the table . |
| 16 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 17 | With regard to the golf played by both teams in the Solheim Cup , it is worth reiterating that the American Captain , Kathy Whitworth , had no hesitation in saying that the Europeans were on a par with their opponents in terms of technique . |
| 18 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 19 | The blankets were on the floor and his feet were freezing . |
| 20 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 21 | Twelve of the boreholes were on the areas of the Coventry , Grantham , Shaftesbury and Witney map sheets ; the remaining eight were in the Bedford area , in connection with the Fuller 's Earth project . |
| 22 | This was rejected as it was a case of continuing trespass which continued as long as the buttresses were on the land . |
| 23 | The colonial government was upbraided for being out of touch ; failing to grasp that the colony had been exposed to liberal ideas from the outside world : ‘ The star of rule through the Chiefs was on the wane ’ , it declared . |
| 24 | Two breaks of serve in the second gave McCarthy her victory and the Americans were on the way . |
| 25 | The appellants , suppliers of petrol to garage owners , entered into two agreements with the respondents in relation to two garages , M and C. The agreements were on the appellants ' standard forms . |
| 26 | One of the girls was on the telephone in the outer office : ‘ I 'm afraid Mr Riddle is n't available at the moment … |
| 27 | ‘ The photos were on the top of all the other stuff in the dustbin . |
| 28 | ‘ So … if the kitchen bag had just been changed and the photos were on the top outside , it can only mean he threw out the photos in the last couple of days . ’ |
| 29 | The porcelain horse , the cactus , the blue bowl and the drinks were on the shelves . |
| 30 | It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s , numbers had continued to decline , and the whales were on the verge of extinction . |