Example sentences of "it [was/were] on [art] " 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 | If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time . |
| 4 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets . |
| 7 | Last year , at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , it was generally agreed that the US deficit was less of a threat because it was on a downward path . |
| 8 | This time it was on a much larger scale . |
| 9 | It was on a moonless night , fortunately , that the little town held its firework display , the culmination of its week-long yearly carnival . |
| 10 | It was on a Thursday evening |
| 11 | Now it is free , and very agreeable it was on a spring morning to walk through its coppices and gardens of oak and maple , white roses and birches and every kind of shrub . |
| 12 | On paper , it seemed a very bankable prospect , based as it was on a successful stage musical by Alan J. Lerner and Burton Lane . |
| 13 | Arnold put his ball in the greenside bunker , and even though it was on a slope the wind had blown the sand over it . |
| 14 | It was on a level with Arnold 's 67 at Troon . |
| 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 | It was on a Sunday in July , 1849 , that Charley first introduced his pal Ben to his loved one . |
| 17 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 18 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 19 | That particular night — it was on a Wednesday evening — instead of keeping the ball low , I returned it with a very uncontrolled kick and bang ! |
| 20 | It was on a visit to Ulverston that he first met Thomas West , who was working on his historical and topographic work on the area . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the final announcement came yesterday , it was on a winter 's day as cold and dull as their marriage had become . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew it was on a knife-edge but this is the right outcome , I am absolutely sure of that . ’ |
| 26 | When I did finally traverse the hills it was on a spring day of constantly changing conditions , all of them chilly . |
| 27 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 28 | It was on a sigh that Aggie replied , ‘ No , love , I 'm not afraid of getting splinters . |
| 29 | When I first saw Moila it was on a beautiful day in the last week of June . |
| 30 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |