Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fortunate there were experts on the bridge at the time . |
| 2 | There were tapestries on the walls and lots of dark oak furniture . |
| 3 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 4 | This kind of squabbling in the courts was most unseemly , and The Daily Mail launched an angry editorial broadside : ‘ There were cyclists on the jury , we read , and this fact has a grim sound … |
| 5 | On both occasions the solicitor had acted without authority and the transactions were frauds on the bank . |
| 6 | ‘ There were palliasses on the floor and brown paint and pin-up girls on the walls . ’ |
| 7 | There were spoofs on the Officers , insinuating that they were upper class twits , and there were jokes about the Squadron based on its experiences in Chad that summer . |
| 8 | There were books on every chair . |
| 9 | There were books on the subject . |
| 10 | There were books on the desk at which the effigy of the Emperor sat . |
| 11 | Although Pittsburgh was severely hit by the decline in the steel industry , its tertiary and quaternary sectors were thriving and there were demands on the city to respond to and cater for the large number of firms locating and expanding their professional and managerial activities there . |
| 12 | They explained they were brothers on a walking tour . |
| 13 | There were pictures on every page : an heiress danced at a charity ball with a matador half her age — ’ Enrico makes me feel like a child again ’ , an ageing pop star posed with his new wife — ’ Now I really do have everything . ’ |
| 14 | Other annexes approved by the Luxembourg summit were declarations on the peace process in the Middle East , the situation in Iraq , South Africa , human rights , the improvement of emergency assistance within the UN framework , nuclear non-proliferation , and arms exports . |
| 15 | Presently there were feet on the stairs — a headlong clatter that would have frightened her had she been capable of ordinary feelings . |
| 16 | There were folk on the ground floor who did n't make it though . ’ |
| 17 | Then there were footsteps on the stairs . |
| 18 | Current affairs were well covered , but in addition there were lectures on the stock market , the big banks , the ramifications of the big monopolistic groups of companies , the export and import trade . |
| 19 | These were duties on the tanning of leather and making of candles . |
| 20 | These were duties on the tanning of leather and making of candles . |
| 21 | Even if there were weapons on the shuttle , there would n't be anything as advanced as the sleek little dart in her hand . |
| 22 | This meant that after accepting the traveller 's booking , the airline accepted more bookings for the flight than there were seats on the aircraft . |
| 23 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 24 | As there were lights on the backs of these boxes , the cars did not have stairhead lamps . |
| 25 | Many of the presentations were variations on the theme of ‘ partnership to give competitive edge ’ set out by BPX chief executive John Browne in his keynote speech reported last month . |
| 26 | My master liked to shoot seabirds and so there were guns on the boat . |
| 27 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 28 | There were sounds on the stairs . |
| 29 | There were mangoes on the table and flat bread and a dish of scrambled eggs , so I took a spoonful of egg and put it slowly down on the terrace , as I thought any human being would do . |
| 30 | Such external evidence as there is points to his being the son of a fairly poor rural family who were tenants on the estate of the manor of Thornton Dale which , in 1335 , was described as having : a chief messuage worth in garden produce and herbage 13s 4d , arable lands and meadows , a watermill , a fulling mill , a common oven . |