Example sentences of "[was/were] on the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There , the opposed classes were on the one hand the government and its apparatus ; and on the other , the governed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Eloise opened the glass case and adjusted the minute hand until both golden hands were on the twelve numeral . |
| 6 | Recorded MacLachlan in his diary : ‘ As ‘ A ’ Flight were on the 9 o'clock watch John decided to have all the blood-thirsty pilots on , in the hopes of getting a 109 . |
| 7 | The immediate effect was on the two housing areas known as East and West Ropery Banks ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1976 , 1978c ) . |
| 8 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 9 | That was on the 1991 ‘ Do n't Spook The Horse ’ tour recorded for posterity on the ‘ Weld ’ live double album , casting Young as a man driven to the limit , charging and stomping his ground , ready to explode . |
| 10 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 11 | Consequently the bear-feast — ubiquitous in Siberia — was on the one hand a communal enjoyment of the cooked flesh of the animal , but on the other hand a sacred ritual intended to placate the bear-spirit and ensure that , while the dead animal would live again , its spirit would not seek vengeance on those who had killed it . |
| 12 | no did n't see it , it was on the one o'clock news |
| 13 | It was on the six o'clock nat well it was on all day , one o'clock , two o'clock , three o'clock |
| 14 | It was on the par-five hole that Gronberg and Moon made their rounds . |
| 15 | It was on the twenty second , we 're putting it forward a week , |
| 16 | My Lord Mayor , my Lord Mayor , I started by saying how angry and dismayed I was on the twenty fourth of July . |
| 17 | Day was on the twenty fifth of December ! |
| 18 | well my birthdays on the twenty sixth twenty seven , last year I was on the twenty six , I was twenty six |