Example sentences of "and [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We worked a wee half a week and were on the dole , Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday we 'd be on the dole , then work Thursday , Friday and Saturday morning . |
| 2 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 3 | There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed , and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened . |
| 4 | George I and George II were Germans by birth and upbringing , and were on the throne simply because all the heirs with better hereditary claims were disqualified by being Roman Catholics . |
| 5 | By now they had walked some distance along the Haymarket , and were on the edge of Piccadilly Circus where Dr Neil was relieved to see that Stair 's party had disappeared and the crowds there had grown less . |
| 6 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 7 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |
| 8 | They lived in Gordon Square , and were on the fringe of the Bloomsbury set . |
| 9 | A core staff of assistant manager , guest services director , food and beverages manager , head chef and housekeeper had already been appointed and were on the payroll , helping with preparations for the hotel 's opening . |
| 10 | She lapsed into a coma and was on a life support machine . |
| 11 | Col Phailes , a payload specialist , is attached to the USA Industrial College of the armed forces and was on a UK fact-finding tour with colleagues . |
| 12 | His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London . |
| 13 | Certainly , it surpassed in bulk and cost anything yet seen in Romania and was on a scale approaching Imelda Marcos 's spendthrift acquisitions . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 15 | George had very few faults and was on the surface , a simple , good man . |
| 16 | Gerald Smith said the visa restrictions would be lifted and was on the phone to a woman in the United States to tell her how her $500 gift would be spent . |
| 17 | He was an early enthusiast for British membership of the European Monetary System and was on the council of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1977 to 1983 . |
| 18 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 19 | If someone was making a confession about an unfaithful lover , and was on the edge of tears , people would often say , listen , darling , this woman knows what she is singing about . |
| 20 | The Belfast company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse . |
| 21 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 22 | He was a regular attendant at services for the deaf held at St. Saviour 's Church , and was on the committee of the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 23 | When he broke his neck and doctors said he might not race again , he discharged himself and was on the circuit again within seven weeks . |
| 24 | Students ' reactions to the pattern of the original version were interesting : they argued that it felt too " top-heavy " , too 'symmetrical " and was on the whole rather unsubtle . |
| 25 | No , this could n't really be the case , and he shuddered , in spasms , uncontrollably , and was on the verge of dismissing these thoughts from his mind . |
| 26 | In 1839 he published A Treatise on the Nature of Club-Foot and Analogous Distortions , in which he recognized the association between fever and club foot , and was on the verge of describing foot deformity secondary to poliomyelitis . |
| 27 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 28 | It came to have Connolly 's support and was on the way to becoming thoroughly nationalist and republican under Connolly 's influence . |
| 29 | Oldknow seems to have had in mind a great combined enterprise , with 1,000 factory workers and 1,000 weavers , and was on the way to becoming one of England 's greatest cotton lords , to rank with the Peels , Arkwrights , and Strutts . |
| 30 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |