Example sentences of "[was/were] on an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the riders , all men , were on an advanced motorcycle course — learning skills needed for high-speed pursuit , said a Kent police spokeswoman , who stressed that no other vehicle was involved . |
| 2 | Nastase held talks with the Hungarian Foreign Minister , Geza Jeszenszky , on Feb. 6 in Spain , where both were on an official visit [ see below ] . |
| 3 | He declared that neither he nor Dumas , who were on an official visit to Oman at the time , were informed of the request for entry . |
| 4 | Industry , especially chemical and pharmaceutical , was no less involved in the great expansion , and the opportunities for research were on an unprecedented scale . |
| 5 | When I pushed open a door leading to a better-lit corridor , I realized that I was on an upper level of the main administrative building of the spaceport . |
| 6 | Servants filled two removal vans with his possessions from Kensington Palace to take to Clarence House three miles away while he was on an official visit to Wales . |
| 7 | Médecin resigned as mayor of Nice and as Alpes-Maritimes Council president in an open letter sent from Osaka in Japan , where he was on an official visit . |
| 8 | Yesterday he was on an official visit home . |
| 9 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 10 | Julie , 28 , was on an overland trek of Africa when her parents were told she had disappeared . |
| 11 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 12 | It was on an overseas tour with Newcastle that Gallacher earned the dubious notoriety of being the first player to be accused of being drunk in charge of a football . |
| 13 | The changes , thought to have taken place in July when ANC president Nelson Mandela was on an overseas tour , apparently excluded him and his deputy , Walter Sisulu , from official policy-making bodies . |
| 14 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 15 | There were newspapers on a table , the story was on an open page and if Marshall had not closed the paper and pushed it beneath others , Wickham 's curiosity would not have been aroused . |
| 16 | Saved you there , Lexy ! ’ he exclaimed to himself , forgetful that he was on an open channel . |
| 17 | The section concludes with a diary describing the initial stages of development of a program — the teacher concerned was on an intensive course on the design and development of such units , and this was her first effort . |