Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 2 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 3 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 4 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 5 | Its available agricultural land , the Tenantry Laines spread out along the downland valleys , was largely in the form of scattered individual strips and , although attempts were made to consolidate holdings in the 1780s , these were still on a small scale . |
| 6 | Heather 's face displayed a mixture of ecstasy and relief ; we were both on a big high . |
| 7 | House prices were also on a rising trend despite the 1.2pc fall reported by the Halifax Building Society , Britain 's biggest lender , last month . |
| 8 | As it was , we were often on a sticky wicket when the rummage crew had to deal with the crane drivers for a smuggling offence . |
| 9 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 10 | Recently , an ambassador told me that issues such as defence and foreign policy were surely on a different plane from economic issues , involving as they did considerations of history , culture and identity . |
| 11 | For example , in Caquezo and Rio Negro in Colombia corn and potato yields have improved 200 and 90 per cent respectively on hillside farms which were able to adopt the improved technology ( Sepuldeva 1980 ) , although this example was only on a limited scale . |
| 12 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 13 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 14 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 15 | Her fury was still on an upward spiral as he announced , ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine . ’ |
| 16 | It was also on a bigger scale and , for the first time , he was to collaborate with a distinguished painter for the designs . |
| 17 | Nastase also held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , who was also on an official visit to Spain . |
| 18 | The fresco , completed in the fourteenth-century , was originally on an outside wall , near the campanile . |
| 19 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
| 20 | I rang the doctor , hoping he would suggest transferring her to Tewkesbury or Evesham , but he was out on a coronary emergency , so I had to wait . |
| 21 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 22 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |
| 23 | It was a fact Adrian Warburton was out on an early air test prior to a sortie in AR735 . |
| 24 | Pilkington talked to Dr Richard Newman , who was out on an early morning call , on the Thursday . |
| 25 | I repeated this to the editor of the biggest Catholic paper of France , ‘ L'Homme Nouveau ’ , who was here on a fact-finding visit . |
| 26 | At the time he was abroad on an official visit and did not return to France , settling instead in Uruguay . |
| 27 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |