Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adj] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that should have been Plymouth , I thought Plymouth were high on the league , they 're not , they 're near bottom |
| 2 | Sella and Saint André were quiet on the night and indeed young Transvaal winger Pieter Hendriks was the pick of the backs . |
| 3 | In the fifty ninth minute Martin Foyle was clear on the edge of the penalty area after Kernigan slipped , but his lob was comfortably held by Bolder . |
| 4 | While Dennis was well on the bridle , she was having to work hard to keep Billy Liar up to the pace . |
| 5 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |
| 6 | Under the 1985 Pressler Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act , US aid to Pakistan was dependent on the President certifying that Pakistan did not possess a " nuclear explosive device " . |
| 7 | 89 MINUTES : Saints ' last-gasp winner came when Dowie was free on the left . |
| 8 | My wife was upstairs changing Heather , and Penny was asleep on the landing , when the phone rang downstairs . |
| 9 | Conversely , those not easily located like part-time farmers on Flotta in Orkney were dependent on a wife or neighbour able to deal with such emergencies . |
| 10 | The change of subject was obviously welcome and Father Barnes was voluble on the subject of Harry . |
| 11 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
| 12 | J.P.G. Freeman credits them with a " modest " influence when they helped to persuade the Americans that agreement with the USSR was dependent on the exclusion of West Germany from direct control over nuclear arms . |
| 13 | The area of the Dalzell works was more than doubled by the end of 1883 , and Colvilles were well on the way to becoming the dominating force in the Scottish steel industry , a position which they retained to the end . |
| 14 | As a result , President FRanois Mitterrand 's support for Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's policy on German reunification at Strasbourg was dependent on the West Germans agreeing to set up the government conference by the end of next year . |
| 15 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself |
| 16 | Mr Toad was loose on the racetrack , yowling and tooting to himself and let all beware who saw him come . |
| 17 | It now seemed that Watt was well on the way to developing the engine for the commercial market . |
| 18 | Tony Dennis took the ball on and Raynor was clear on the right , but as Dennis prepared to pass , referee David Phillips blew for the free kick . |
| 19 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 20 | In fact Macmillan had established Britain 's space policy for decades to come : in military space Britain was dependent on the USA ; in civil space Britain would take part in co-operative European ventures . |
| 21 | Chapman was keen on the plan because he had seen the advances made on the Continent , where such classes were already established . |
| 22 | Mrs Thatcher was careful on the whole to appoint her supporters to the important economic ministries . |
| 23 | Frank O'Hara was open on the desk |
| 24 | In 1198 the established central " Church " at Rome was well on the way to becoming a vast , governmental machine . |
| 25 | Strabo quotes Timagenes only once ( 4.1.13 ) to say that Posidonius was right and Timagenes was wrong on the origins of the aurum tolosanurn , the gold from Tolosa which ruined the career of Caepio . |
| 26 | The scarlet , gold and black cockade of the Netherlands was gaudy on the hat . |
| 27 | Carla was cross-legged on the floor next to the coffee table on which she was playing Patience with Sara 's cards . |
| 28 | But Walter was well on the way to knowing his way around . |
| 29 | Mariana was asleep on the sofa . |
| 30 | Mrs Pember Reeves was ambivalent on the issue , commenting that it depended largely on whether the accommodation was above or below ground and on the absolute minimum that was allowed for food . |