Example sentences of "was [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 2 | Rosa Luxemburg was right on the dangers of nationalism . |
| 3 | Our screen was situated outside the office on a patch of grass , reached by the usual cinder path , and was right on the edge of the air field . |
| 4 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 5 | Baffling , this , because it was right on the copy . |
| 6 | But undoubtedly he was right on the mark when he wrote in his essay on Thomas Parnell some words which might aptly be applied to many writers at present being collected : |
| 7 | Unlike so many beginners to Koi-keeping , Ken 's first pond was right on the button in terms of size , practicality and ease of maintenance . |
| 8 | And of course Lucille was right on the button . |
| 9 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 10 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 11 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 12 | it was a it was full pass inside to two fullbacks er , for the Southampton player that was running on this fullback shaded it away you know , guiding him out of it , he 's running to the e sa Smeichel came out to the edge of the area but he was like right on the edge as the player was coming to him , so he just let it roll a little bit further , he stopped it with his foot , the guy came and tackled him off got it instead of just picking it up with his hand , I mean he was actually in the area but like he was right on the edge and he took a step back |
| 13 | It was right on the main road and he was there years and years and years |
| 14 | Hall was apt to be described as ‘ a tough-as-nails reporter with a marshmallow centre ’ , though in her ‘ Dear Unity ’ role , the emphasis was rather on the concoction of sympathy than on the cutting edge of insight . |
| 15 | He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’ |
| 16 | We knew that 6pm in Vancouver was 7pm on the prairies , 8pm in Winnipeg , 9pm in Toronto & Montreal and 10pm in the Maritime provinces . |
| 17 | When I joined the battle against fluoridation in 1962 , my opposition was wholly on the grounds that it was a treatment of people 's bodies without their consent , or the consent of parents in the case of children — a form of ‘ compulsory mass medication ’ . |
| 18 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 19 | I was somewhere on the curve of prejudice ; aware of an anger I had not dealt with , simmering beneath the surface , showing itself in bad dreams and disgruntled waking . |
| 20 | The German was somewhere on the H-shaped catwalk on the opposite side of the shed . |
| 21 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 22 | It was all on a scale much more appropriate for children than the high vaulting of his previous school and there was much more play equipment . |
| 23 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 24 | In the first series the emphasis was all on the very street-sussed young women who went out and solved all kinds of crimes , problems and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it was all on the radio . ’ |
| 26 | He really was a most exceptionally handsome man , but she knew from experience that it was all on the surface . |
| 27 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 28 | ‘ And you think Parks was in on the Livesey case too ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have a real big production screen , and as Jeff was in on the design of the set , I still feel him with me . |
| 30 | As Roquelaure was involved , they think the French Government was in on the business , perhaps with revenge as their motive . |