Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 2 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 3 | This was on a souvenir mug bought in Hokkaido . |
| 4 | This was on a stand by itself . |
| 5 | This was on a Saturday you know . |
| 6 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 7 | This was on the north coast of New South Wales , in a place called Kempsey , three hundred miles north of Sydney . |
| 8 | For instance the chronological grouping of particular watermarks has revealed that a small portrait of Petrus Sylvius , Saskia 's cousin , was printed twice : once in 1637 , which is the date below Rembrandt 's signature this was on the occasion of Sylvius 's move from Amsterdam to Friesland after he had been received as a minister of the church and again , in an unaltered state still carrying the date of 1637 much later , in 1653 . |
| 9 | This was on the first-floor landing , and opened on to the shared first-floor kitchen . |
| 10 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 11 | ‘ This was on the agenda for the meeting and had been discussed previously , ’ said Mr Paterson . |
| 12 | This was on the isle of Anglesey and Bullock , using the ancient Welsh name as a clever marketing ploy , began to sell his ‘ Mona marble ’ . |
| 13 | But I ca n't Oh ooh ! through Can you imagine if this was on the superstore sites . |
| 14 | ‘ This was on the morning pre-dawn patrol when I was scrambled for an unusual low early morning recce . |
| 15 | This was on the Monday before the show opened , and the garden had been completed only two hours earlier . |
| 16 | Oxford students succeeded , in Fox v Stirk [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 7 , in establishing that they could be resident in their university constituency and thus entitled to qualify to vote notwithstanding that they were also resident in their home constituencies and could qualify to vote there alternatively but this was on the basis that they had a ‘ residence ’ in Oxford where they spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 17 | This was on the basis of continued strong earnings growth throughout the recession , with Wolters Kluwer achieving a first half jump of 39% in after-tax earnings and forecasting a 20% rise for the whole of 1992 , and Elsevier predicting a rise of 16% for the full year . |
| 18 | This was on the basis that the act of the plaintiff relied on as consent preceded , and licensed in advance , a possible subsequent act of negligence . |
| 19 | this was on the Thursday and he said er we 'll leave him on the |
| 20 | The officer was released unharmed a few hours later … but Johnson , described by the police as armed and dangerous was on the run until this afternoon , when he was captured in a car park at Radlett in Hertfordshire . |
| 21 | The flat at number thirteen was on the ground floor . |
| 22 | To wear a swastika in 1981 was to say that something real was on the march again . |
| 23 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 24 | Mostly these were on the west coast where glaciers moved faster since the snowfall was heavier near the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 25 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 26 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 27 | These were on the shelf and the bottom of the safe was stacked with pocket files . |
| 28 | At the end of this terrace was a brick wall some ten feet in height behind which were the gardens of the Milford Hill houses , the first of these was on the corner of the streets . |
| 29 | Trees and hedges were torn up , red-brick or gritstone streets , short and straight , multiplied every year , even before the age of steam : Sheffield , Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , all were on the move . |
| 30 | ‘ We may never know exactly how many were on the ferry , ’ US Coast Guard Petty Officer Joe Dye said yesterday in Miami . |