Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 2 | The mass disfranchisement of thousands of citizens in local government , the disgraceful manipulation of constituency boundaries , the enforced political tests for government jobs and legislation , such as the Flags and Emblems Act , were some of the shackles on individual freedom which would never be tolerated in England . |
| 3 | Behind him Place and Nona shuffled into place so that all three were visible to the police on the river . |
| 4 | But they were glad of the tyres on one stretch where four-wheeled vehicles had left tracks unconducive to their three wheels , leaving them travelling ‘ broadside but in control , ’ he insisted . |
| 5 | President Alfredo Cristiani stated in a broadcast on Jan. 7 that investigations had shown that elements of the armed forces were involved in the murders on Nov. 16 of six Jesuits and their two servants [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 6 | The West German Social Democrats were hostile to the whole concept , as they were to the EDC and West German rearmament , while some French Socialists were unhappy about the proposals on how the new structure would relate to Britain . |
| 7 | ‘ So were many of the officers on the Western Front who you called ‘ sir ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Only last summer , years after it was all over and Astrid had found her stone cottage with roses round the door , golden/grey in a late summer orchard , she met Jay , and her eyes were green as the flames on ashwood . |
| 9 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 10 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 11 | It was clear from the reports on fifty-nine cells in this guberniia that collaboration between the party and the people was minimal . |
| 12 | But Horsley was popular with the Founders on a personal level . |
| 13 | Mr. Perot was interested in the properties on behalf of himself and his family . |
| 14 | An official statement declared that the decision was separate from the talks on the bases , but that it had been " influenced " by the Philippine government 's demand for the fighters to be removed by September 1991 . |
| 15 | Life presumably evolved there because it was safe from the horrors on the surface . |
| 16 | He said that during the first interview Hepburn had denied any involvement , but when seen again 40 minutes later ‘ frankly said that he was responsible for the assaults on both girls ’ . |
| 17 | However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy . |
| 18 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 19 | That was one of the questions on our entrance exam was |
| 20 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 21 | Karen Woolley , 20 , was one of the children on the first Dreamflight in 1987 . |
| 22 | When I was sitting in that corridor there was one of the tutors on the phone , only for a short while |
| 23 | ‘ BEST-EXECUTION' — an adviser or broker dealing on the best available terms — was one of the pillars on which the Financial Services Act was built six years ago . |
| 24 | The ballet company 's artistic director Beryl Grey was one of the guests on the programme and the dance performed was The Siren from the ballet The Prodigal Son . |
| 25 | Francis Maginn , who was one of the speakers on the second evening , which was devoted to the subject " The Deaf in Society , was impressed by the organisation of the Congress and by the quality of some of the delegations . |
| 26 | Yes that was one of the bases on which communion is |
| 27 | Harbury dived in with a question about the legality of such a transfer which , like much of what MacQuillan had done , was contrary to the conditions on which he had been allowed to acquire the paper . |