Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were right on the bottom of the boat |
| 2 | We got a call saying we were right on the money last issue with the rumour that DEC will scrap up to 10,000 people on Monday December 7 , Pearl Harbor Day . |
| 3 | We passed through the col , with the main peak of Koitobos towering up to our right , and then suddenly we were right on the edge of the rim with the giant bowl of the crater itself spread out below us . |
| 4 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 5 | The captains knew all the tricks though , and were constantly on the watch . |
| 6 | As a leading authority on late antiquity has pointed out , ‘ merchants were constantly on the move , seeking opportunities in the underdeveloped territories of Western Europe , often settling far from their native towns ’ . |
| 7 | Later on , when wafts of sulphurous fumes from the volcano still so frequent that their chariots were constantly on the move , despite having their wheels chocked with stones . |
| 8 | Number 4 had not always been a lodging house ; just as several families , like the Titfords , were constantly on the move from place to place , so many an individual house or shop would see a very rapid turnover of occupants . |
| 9 | Ferguson was a man whose eyes were constantly on the future , but he would probably have approved , nonetheless , of the historical purpose of the evening . |
| 10 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 11 | ‘ You were only on the outskirts of it , ’ said Caspar . |
| 12 | And , if only the Vatican were in on the conspiracy , it could never operate . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 14 | Ten minutes later we were down on the beach at Taroona , near Hobart ( and the mouth of the Derwent River ) launching the boat from the beach in traditional manner by reversing the trailer into the surf . |
| 15 | They were down on the floor , and one side of her face was scorched by Gordon 's mother 's horrible gas-fire , in front of which there was a bowl of tepid water . |
| 16 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 17 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 18 | That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education . |
| 19 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 20 | The people that were left behind such as the section leaders — the gunnery leader , flight engineer leader , navigation leader and one or two people that were not on the battle order for that night , would meet these people and speak to them . |
| 21 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 22 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 23 | Pre-election allegations that large numbers of citizens had been excluded from the electoral roll led to an agreement allowing citizens to vote with an identity card if their name were not on the register . |
| 24 | But despite Mr Koo 's slip , the Taiwanese side was at pains to stress that the big issues of its international status and political relationship with the mainland were not on the agenda . |
| 25 | Woes were not on the agenda . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was necessary for the Government to carry the management of those companies with them so that any radical measures to expose the industries to serious restructuring or competition were not on the agenda . |
| 27 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 28 , Yang stressed that military topics were not on the agenda . |
| 28 | Captain Graham Gooch insisted within minutes of Australia 's first Test victory that wholesale changes were not on the agenda . |
| 29 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 30 | Lord Herschell was angered by this idea and , says Professor Heuston , ‘ the High Court judges at that time , many of whom were Halsbury 's own appointments , were not on the whole notable for progressive views on social or industrial matters . ’ |