Example sentences of "[adj] was on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 2 | This was on a souvenir mug bought in Hokkaido . |
| 3 | This was on a stand by itself . |
| 4 | This was on a Saturday you know . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was on the north coast of New South Wales , in a place called Kempsey , three hundred miles north of Sydney . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was on the first-floor landing , and opened on to the shared first-floor kitchen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ This was on the agenda for the meeting and had been discussed previously , ’ said Mr Paterson . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | But I ca n't Oh ooh ! through Can you imagine if this was on the superstore sites . |
| 13 | ‘ This was on the morning pre-dawn patrol when I was scrambled for an unusual low early morning recce . |
| 14 | This was on the Monday before the show opened , and the garden had been completed only two hours earlier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | this was on the Thursday and he said er we 'll leave him on the |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The flat at number thirteen was on the ground floor . |
| 21 | To wear a swastika in 1981 was to say that something real was on the march again . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 24 | No one at all was on the beach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Common 's first game for the Boro on February 25 was on a ground he had graced earlier in his career : Bramall Lane , the home of Sheffield United . |
| 27 | Invented in 1589 , when Elizabeth I was on the throne of England , the ‘ stocking frame ’ came into use when the demand for stockings was from both sexes , and it signalled the birth of a great industry , although recognition of its revolutionary potential was slow in coming , and William Lee died penniless in Paris . |
| 28 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 29 | 1914 and 1953 were aeons apart ; 1914 was on a planet circling one of those furthest faintest stars . |
| 30 | They also discovered that the only place where potassium was available was on the hospital ward . |