Example sentences of "[was/were] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to learn the Book of Job by heart , but never got safely past the end of the second chapter ; the first two chapters were on the dull side , overloaded with yoke of oxen and she-asses , with Eliphaz the Temanite , Bildad the Shuhite , and Zophar the Naamathite , Job 's comforters . |
| 2 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 3 | The advent of Rommel had changed the balance in favour of the Axis powers , and everywhere British forces were on the defensive . |
| 4 | The French , however , were on the defensive . |
| 5 | Not unnaturally , it has always been traditional to see the years to 1360 as constituting a period unfavourable to France : the initiative lay largely with the English , and it was mainly the French who were on the defensive . |
| 6 | But today they were on the defensive . |
| 7 | After Labour won the general election of 1964 and 1966 , the Conservatives were on the defensive , until the consequences following on the deflation of July 1966 began to make the Labour Government unpopular . |
| 8 | In the first half they were on the defensive for all but five minutes . |
| 9 | By mid-afternoon they were on the lower slopes of Lustley Foin . |
| 10 | Ltd were on the first floor of a substantial building , near Allhallows Church . |
| 11 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 12 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 13 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 14 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 15 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 16 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 17 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 18 | If you were on the new year 's Honours list you 'd be pretty chuffed too . |
| 19 | For what good it was going to do me , I was fairly sure that these two were on the other end of the lead poisoning Connors and I had nearly contracted . |
| 20 | Anything else that you noticed when you were on the other side of the road ? |
| 21 | The whole of the school would join in that , boys and girls were together , they were se segregated in the hall you did n't sit next to a girl or anything like that , the boys were on one side , the girls were on the other side . |
| 22 | They were on the other side of the bed , crossed over , shaped like a swastika . |
| 23 | Mandeville , Southgate and Damien were on the other gallery . |
| 24 | Ha ha ha ha how did it come about that you were on you were on one side very firmly and the employers were on the other side very firmly and sides had been had been drawn up ? |
| 25 | Most of the bazaars were on the other side of the gate . |
| 26 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 27 | These conditions of the possibility of Christian theology were on the one hand the actuality of the revelation in Jesus , and on the other the reception of that revelation in faith empowered by the Holy Spirit . |
| 28 | There , the opposed classes were on the one hand the government and its apparatus ; and on the other , the governed . |
| 29 | There were on the one side the Roman citizens who ( leaving out for our purpose the distinction between cives cum suffragio and cives sine suffragio ) filled the legions . |
| 30 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |