Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already she could see their faces , the faces of the fucking bloody middle class , when the subject of money was on the agenda . |
| 2 | The Victorian worship of money was on the wax , and houses were an outward expression of what you were worth and how fashionable was your taste . |
| 3 | In the ninth and tenth centuries the financial aspect of feudalism was on the whole less important than the military . |
| 4 | However , there seems no doubt that slavery as a mode of exploitation was on the decline in Latin America , even before it was abolished , and that the economic case against this form of labour appeared increasingly strong after 1850 . |
| 5 | But the weight of opinion was on the side of the man closest to the throne , murderous and oppressive or not . |
| 6 | But in the meantime another form of recording was on the way — ‘ digital recording ’ . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Although the judge dealt with the standard of proof , he at no stage specifically directed the jury that the burden of proof was on the prosecution . |
| 8 | The plaintiff or petitioner drew up a series of charges for the defendant to answer and refute , but the burden of proof was on the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Visiting Peru , WHO director-general Hiroshi Nakajima claimed that the incidence of cholera was on the wane , despite other predictions by local and foreign experts . |