Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 2 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet under Russian control . |
| 3 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 4 | do n't know who 's on this week , the Baron Knights were on a fortnight ago were n't they ? |
| 5 | 9 year old Michael Roper and his 14 year old step brother , Philip Giles were on a family skiing holiday at Lake Tahoe in California when the tragedy happened . |
| 6 | Ms Baez was on a tour of Germany and had planned to go dancing with her band after a concert . |
| 7 | Mr Watney was on a yachting holiday abroad yesterday . |
| 8 | She had still been half hoping that he might not be going to attend , especially as Family Day was on a Saturday when he was n't officially on duty . |
| 9 | Another unfortunate to cross paths with Roy was on a business flight . |
| 10 | Yvonne Vladislavich was on a cabin cruiser that was caught by a wave and sank off Mozambique . |
| 11 | Lee kept on the attack despite this and the fact that Nicklaus was on a roll . |
| 12 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
| 13 | And Darren was on a day off and he 's been . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm just glad Bonnie was on a bran diet . ’ |
| 15 | PADDY Ashdown was on a high . |
| 16 | Lee was on a downslope , and it seemed absolutely impossible for him to finish close . |
| 17 | In 1873 , only two years after Stanley met Livingstone , Amelia B. Edwards was on a sketching holiday in France . |
| 18 | Rutherford 's earliest research at the Cavendish was on a detector for electromagnetic waves , an essential feature of which was a small coil containing a tiny bundle of magnetised iron wire . |
| 19 | My first visit to Cornwall was on a school trip . |
| 20 | Less than a year later Rust and Sabrina were on a routine stakeout at the Marseilles docks when they had come under heavy fire from a gang of drug smugglers and Rust was hit in the spine , leaving him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 21 | Those doubts disappeared following a telephone call she received while Prince Charles was on a skiing holiday in Klosters , Switzerland . |
| 22 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 23 | Robert MacLaine , 43 , and wife Miranda , 44 , of Glasgow , and John MacDonald Brown of London were on a sightseeing trip around Mont Blanc when their light plane developed engine trouble . |
| 24 | But if the rumour that Lord Elton was on a shortlist of one is true , that replacement may be hard to find . |
| 25 | Leslie Godwin was on a routine drive , taking a prisoner and 3 officers back to jail near Bicester , after a routine court appearance . |
| 26 | Philip Urbach was on a transport that was supposed to leave in mid-August . |
| 27 | When they arrived at Darlington Memorial Hospital , Gary was on a life support machine in intensive care . |
| 28 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 29 | The following year , while Howard was on a tour of prisons in Europe which was to last 14 months , his son became psychotic . |
| 30 | PC Peter Betts was on a training run when he crashed into a hedge as he tried to avoid a head-on collision with a lorry . |