Example sentences of "it [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ .
2 The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) .
3 I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council .
4 Her fresh-faced expression gazing as it were on the threshold of life is a poignant reminder of the passing of time and finite nature of dreams .
5 And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets .
6 Yeah I thought it was on a couple of weeks ago oh no it was the whatsit millionaire was n't it ?
7 It was on a Sunday in July , 1849 , that Charley first introduced his pal Ben to his loved one .
8 ‘ I knew it was on a knife-edge but this is the right outcome , I am absolutely sure of that . ’
9 It was on a sigh that Aggie replied , ‘ No , love , I 'm not afraid of getting splinters .
10 It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful .
11 It was on a descent pattern .
12 You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this .
13 You said it was on a road .
14 . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well .
15 It was on a bearing of 280 degrees and was already west of the Falklands , so I 'm sorry but I can not see how you can say it was not sailing away from the Falklands when it was sunk . ’
16 Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing .
17 When the final announcement came yesterday , it was on a winter 's day as cold and dull as their marriage had become .
18 I think it was on a truck .
19 It was on a level with Arnold 's 67 at Troon .
20 Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to .
21 I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll
22 Arnold put his ball in the greenside bunker , and even though it was on a slope the wind had blown the sand over it .
23 It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp .
24 It was on a half-pasted-up Foyer Display on his desk at the theatre — Your Front-of-House Man , Christopher Tomms — Dad must have raged at everyone to find it , but he never thought to ask me .
25 It was on a Tuesday that it happened .
26 it was on a car park at Heathrow Airport
27 Well I was trying to draw your attention , right she had pieces of pink paper right that was mi , and on the desk , on our side and on it it had a fe , erm it was she 'd she had received some er goods or something like that there , it was on a piece of pink paper and the signature on it was Houston !
28 We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then .
29 It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car .
30 So we went , it was on a Friday afternoon I think , in June .
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