Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchase of Glass Glover comes just weeks before it was due to float on the stock market . |
| 2 | When Chaovalit 's resignation was announced early on June 11 ( the day on which the Prime Minister was due to embark on a tour of the United States ) there were immediate fears that a coup attempt might be launched , as soldiers in Bangkok and other areas began demonstrating within their barracks . |
| 3 | Flashback to 1963 when Dylan was due to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and planning to sing ‘ Talkin' John Birch Society Blues ’ , a cut from his forthcoming album . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend was right to air on the Floor of the House a matter which , however specific — no doubt it is being looked into by the authorities and by the police — |
| 5 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 6 | On the all-important matter of holding a Council he was prepared to wait on the king 's convenience for a long time : he was never one to underestimate the needs of secular government . |
| 7 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 8 | The new military regime was prepared to compromise on the oil dispute . |
| 9 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 10 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 11 | No-one from the club was prepared to comment on the demonstration but an insider said a board meeting is due to be held on Tuesday . |
| 12 | Against this background of a wife who was willing to work on the market , the choice to work at home must involve a higher ( or at least as high a ) level of utility . |
| 13 | I was afraid to sleep on the shore . |
| 14 | He was afraid to turn on a light in the school . |
| 15 | BSkyB was unavailable to comment on the ramifications of the BBC withdrawal or on the launch of what is effectively a competitive channel to its own . |
| 16 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 17 | Well , the story was that Arnold Thomas was the ambitious one , while the old man was content to live on the money he got from leasing the land to them as paid the price , usually folk who wanted a storage area or distribution centre . |
| 18 | It was impossible to follow on the track without being noticed . |
| 19 | The penalty was imposed primarily as a result of evidence provided by the victim and in spite of the tenor of the earlier summing-up by the judge who had told the jury that it was dangerous to convict on the evidence of an alleged victim alone . |
| 20 | And many observers thought the booked Bould was lucky to stay on the field for his tackle from behind . |
| 21 | A minute later , Harefield 's Paul Swayles was lucky to stay on the field , after a deliberate elbow in the face of Aries , which left the Town striker writhing in agony . |
| 22 | er erm we changed to Embankment and he was supposed to go on the district line over to Ealing |
| 23 | Thatcherism was supposed to operate on the money supply and the productive side of the economy to produce low inflation and a high and sustainable rate of economic growth . |
| 24 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 25 | But tree warden Christine Darter felt nothing was likely to grow on the banks because they were heavily shaded by overhanging trees . |
| 26 | However , Marsden was reluctant to dwell on the subject of technological progress . |
| 27 | The Council was charged with the task of seeing that the new courses were of degree standard , but was powerless to adjudicate on the wisdom or otherwise of there being so many arts-orientated courses in the first place . |
| 28 | This much-postponed third session of talks was unable to agree on the timing of a ceasefire . |
| 29 | Although the CDP continued to be critical of the partnership proposals and of other aspects of CNAA 's operations — including perfunctory and over-large visits and ‘ undue attention … being accorded to criticisms of the management of polytechnics ’ — it was unable to agree on the policy direction in which to go . |
| 30 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |