Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 2 | If , if the barriers were down er and you were still on the railway er th ah there 's only way you can escape . |
| 3 | Er , once the , the man was down on the floor er he placed his hands into the small of his back . |
| 4 | And this was not on the women 's pages of the Daily Mail , but an article written by a woman on the Law page of the Guardian . |
| 5 | The problem with HMS Sheffield was that Exocet 's homing radar was not on the computer 's list of enemy equipment . |
| 6 | Although a separate issue which was not on the Forum 's agenda , the ‘ Let ’ proposal nevertheless drew much adverse comment from many of those present , including Stefan Edberg and Steffi Graf , the latter player who thought it ‘ silly ’ . |
| 7 | An amulet , featuring a worm curled around a globe , was also on the general 's desk . |
| 8 | One of the head office buildings was originally on the company 's Liverpool manufacturing site but , in April 1982 , American Can moved this office to the Congleton complex because the Liverpool head office site was , by this time , no longer in the centre of the company 's operations . |
| 9 | In 1291 Archbishop Romeyn of York was to be imprisoned and fined 4000 marks for excommunicating the bailiffs of Bishop Bek of Durham while the bishop was abroad on the king 's service . |