Example sentences of "[adj] 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 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 3 | Mostly these were on the west coast where glaciers moved faster since the snowfall was heavier near the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 4 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These were on the shelf and the bottom of the safe was stacked with pocket files . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We may never know exactly how many were on the ferry , ’ US Coast Guard Petty Officer Joe Dye said yesterday in Miami . |
| 9 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 10 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 11 | United were on a diet of scraps — Gary Pallister 's low driven free kick deflected wide , a free header for Steve Bruce not fully exploited , Mark Hughes denied by David Seaman 's reflexes and then shooting wide . |
| 12 | Twelve patients with ulcerative colitis ( eight pancolitis and four left sided colitis ; age 22–70 years ; five were on sulphasalazine and two on prednisolone 10 and 30 mg ) and 15 patients with Crohn 's disease ( one of whom had undergone ileal resection ) ( six ileal and pancolitis , one left sided colitis , six ileal and two small intestinal ; age 18–70 years ; 13 were on no treatment , one on 10 mg prednisolone and one on sulphasalazine ) were studied . |
| 13 | Of the 165 cases in which damages were received without a court order , 104 were on the basis of the acceptance of the first offer that was made . |
| 14 | Sahnoun said in late July that as many as 5,000 people might be dying each day across the country , 1,500,000 were on the brink of death and 4,500,000 were nearing starvation ; together these figures represented almost the entire population of the country . |
| 15 | The latter two were on a nine-man organising committee along with Philip Tomalin , who , as cricket chairman of the French Sports Federation and captain of the SAC , had a major role in setting up the game . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Already the first two were on the move . |
| 18 | ‘ The nine of us were put out to jobs like this : two were on the shoeing — two more were brought in if there was a rush ; the guv'nor would be making mill-bills — a tool for trimming a millstone ; two were on farm-work , sharpening the tines of harrows , mending ploughs and so on ; the last four were normally on outside jobs , on pumps for wells — outside work of all kinds . |
| 19 | He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors — thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were on the driveway and in the yard — and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep . |
| 20 | The Bangladesh government said on Feb. 24 that thousands were on the verge of starvation because relief efforts were inadequate . |
| 21 | Most were on the brink of their longest voyage ever , and many , by their own admission , embarking on one of their most significant adventures . |
| 22 | If we call the press a mass medium , we refer , strictly , to an ancient technology ( a ‘ medium ’ ) of pressing sheets of paper against inked type — dominant , in 1945 , in the ultimate guise of hot metal typesetting machines , which by 1990 were on the scrap-heap . |
| 23 | Of those troops not in the Kuwaiti theatre , eight or nine divisions were on the border with Turkey , seven were on the frontier with Iran and five or six were based in Baghdad . |
| 24 | When Richards was fifth out only 124 were on the board , and immediately after tea the innings collapsed totally . |
| 25 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |