Example sentences of "on [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |
| 2 | One area in which the CEGB could n't always rely on support was the media . |
| 3 | The other outstanding candidate on tape was the violinist , Simon Smith , and he too emerged just as impressively in live performance . |
| 4 | The model I had on test was the five door two litre Ghia , which is right at the top of the saloon range , selling for £17,450 . |
| 5 | The major constraint on architecture was the decision to use production rules to represent knowledge . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew then that my decision to send my secretary away on business was the right one . ’ |
| 7 | So consequently a lot of stuff that ended up on record was the more soulful , slower stuff , but I have some places where I really get to stretch out on this record . |
| 8 | For lesley harrison the significant event of her year recorded on video was the trip to two Romanian Hospitals with a group of student nurses . |
| 9 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 10 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 11 | As has already been suggested , the 20-page section on sex was the subject of most of the furore . |
| 12 | All time on duty was the property of the Chief Constable . |
| 13 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 14 | Also on show was the Grant portable incubator , specifically designed for use in IVF and GIFT applications . |
| 15 | Amongst the works on view was the one to which he has returned most often — the portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria , second wife of Philip IV , painted in 1652 ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 16 | If indeed the lady in the mask died at the birth of her child in 1575 , what on earth was the good of examining various ladies in 1578 ? |
| 17 | What on earth was the point of it all ? |
| 18 | Where on earth was the beautiful , vital girl her son had married ? |
| 19 | What on earth was the world coming to ? |
| 20 | What on earth was the matter with her ? |
| 21 | The ‘ silken midnight cowboy ’ was a clear reference to Cyril , but who on earth was the ‘ bug-eyed monster ’ or the ‘ dead-skinned harpic harpy ’ ? |
| 22 | What on earth was the point of collecting money to save the tower of a church that was n't even beautiful ? |
| 23 | What on earth was the matter with her ? |
| 24 | ‘ And would n't you think just one person would be glad to help me ? ’ she wailed when Ellie asked what on earth was the matter . |
| 25 | What on earth was the matter with her . |