Example sentences of "the [adj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 2 | None of the five was on the teaching strength of the faculty at Cambridge , and three of the five came from other universities . |
| 3 | Mr J A Rawson , who I met at the ‘ latter Lee ’ in 1985 , remembered when the fair was on the Baghill site . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not really me , ’ he had confided to Robert a few months ago , as the two were on a bus , on their way to the Megabowl in Kingston . |
| 5 | The twentieth was on the Thursday Friday |
| 6 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |