Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corvan 's career was sufficiently close to the industrial conflict and Chartist agitation of the turbulent 1840s to draw inspiration from them ; but , by the 1850s , the musical culture of most British workers was taking on a less class-specific quality , characterized by the consumption of commercially supplied music hall song , the replacement of old tune-types by newer types originating in bourgeois theatre and drawing-room , and a shift from protest , street music and spontaneous singsong to formalized performance in choirs and brass bands . |
| 2 | As Anglican church discipline was tightened and as the Oxford Movement spread its influence throughout the clergy the happy-go-lucky attitude of older Broad and Low Churchmen was put on the defensive . |
| 3 | The judge said Mr and Mrs Lauder conceded that from May 1972 effective steps were taken on the landowners ' behalf to assert a right to exclude the public . |
| 4 | Two sovereigns of equal authority in their respective kingdoms were put on an unequal footing because one of those sovereigns held land from the other . |
| 5 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 6 | His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks . |
| 7 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 8 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |