Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 2 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 3 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 4 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 5 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 6 | ‘ And this picture was on the easel then ? ’ |
| 7 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 8 | A few people were on the platform , the station staff busied themselves with mail bags and other items of luggage and parcels , at last the guard blew his whistle . |
| 9 | Another box were on the floor , I could of helped myself ! |
| 10 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
| 11 | Sabine was in the study and this painting was on the wall . ’ |
| 12 | General Lee lost the battle and surrendered , and so yet another Saunderson was on the run . |
| 13 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 14 | One wrong move and all that in-fighting was on the line , would be thrown away . |
| 15 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 16 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 17 | Olympia provoked such a reaction because it ‘ altered and played with identities the culture wanted to keep still ’ and ‘ because such identities were on the surface in such a brutal and unmediated fashion ’ . |
| 18 | One such occasion was on an outing with Steve to the Apollo Theatre in London 's Shaftesbury Avenue to see Peter O'Toole in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell . |
| 19 | How extensive such activity was on the eve of any military operations remains uncertain , while its implications for the early stages of urban growth at Kenchester must await further research . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the print union , Sogat , said such practices were on the way out . |
| 21 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 22 | The emphasis in these speeches was on the need for unity and the avoidance of dissent in radio programmes . |
| 23 | One of the earliest of these settlements was on the island of Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon , and nearby Venice was established later . |
| 24 | Some of these guns were on the top of the submarine pens , others were on concrete towers as large as a couple of houses but far more strongly built . |
| 25 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 26 | All eyes were on the T'ang . |
| 27 | All eyes were on the clock as the hands dragged themselves , with agonising slowness towards noon and time to leave for the airfield . |
| 28 | All eyes were on the catwalk and no one appeared to notice her , apart from a tall , grey-haired woman in the uniform of an atelier who moved towards her accusingly . |
| 29 | She glanced around with an innocent expression on her face , but all eyes were on the Doctor 's antics . |
| 30 | If you go in the loo there 's well for months or during the summer hours counting how many moths was on the window sill and flies , you know , they sort of got more each week when you went and the cobwebs it 's wonderful ! |