Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were right on the bottom of the boat |
| 2 | We got a call saying we were right on the money last issue with the rumour that DEC will scrap up to 10,000 people on Monday December 7 , Pearl Harbor Day . |
| 3 | We passed through the col , with the main peak of Koitobos towering up to our right , and then suddenly we were right on the edge of the rim with the giant bowl of the crater itself spread out below us . |
| 4 | The captains knew all the tricks though , and were constantly on the watch . |
| 5 | As a leading authority on late antiquity has pointed out , ‘ merchants were constantly on the move , seeking opportunities in the underdeveloped territories of Western Europe , often settling far from their native towns ’ . |
| 6 | Later on , when wafts of sulphurous fumes from the volcano still so frequent that their chariots were constantly on the move , despite having their wheels chocked with stones . |
| 7 | Number 4 had not always been a lodging house ; just as several families , like the Titfords , were constantly on the move from place to place , so many an individual house or shop would see a very rapid turnover of occupants . |
| 8 | Ferguson was a man whose eyes were constantly on the future , but he would probably have approved , nonetheless , of the historical purpose of the evening . |
| 9 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 11 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the old enemies , the Durotriges , possibly with their allies the southern Dobunni , were soon on the rampage and pinned down Legio II Augusta in its fortress at Exeter and prevented it from joining Paullinus in the Midlands . |
| 13 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 14 | ‘ Being quit of this obstruction , we were soon on the Bridge … |
| 15 | The Works Brigade and Chief Officer Frank Bates were soon on the spot . |
| 16 | The populations of dolphins and porpoises were finally on the verge of total collapse when the Turkish Government suspended the hunt in 1983 , and commissioned a report on the populations of dolphins and their effects on fish stocks . |
| 17 | Often they were just on the edge of being happy . |
| 18 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 19 | Their opponents , Toby Davis and Richard Inglis , were already on the green for a three , 3½ft from the pin . |
| 20 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 21 | Both Lewis and Max were already on the scene when Morse arrived , the surgeon ( incongruously suited in evening-dress ) immediately putting the chief inspector into the picture — in a somewhat flushed and florid manner : |
| 22 | Financial and business leaders were already on the list of personnel to be purged , but anti-monopoly controls were needed to prevent the re-emergence of conglomerate dominance . |
| 23 | Opren was one of the chemical class of propionic acid derivatives , of which five were already on the market in many forms . |
| 24 | Some birds were already on the move , however . |
| 25 | The early starters were already on the practice ground and the putting green . |
| 26 | Engineers were already on the site when work had to stop and Patrice Clerc , Director of the French Open , in confirming the Federation 's decision to appeal , said , ‘ We had hoped to have things ready for next year . |
| 27 | But he had to release his hold on her mouth as he dragged her up the stairs , so she screamed at Agnes and her mother , who were already on the stairhead , ‘ He 's killed him ! |
| 28 | On the Saturday at Headingley he was bowled when the plates were already on the table , though it was easier to take with a personal score of 135 . |
| 29 | And these were usually on the training grounds |
| 30 | Stretcher bearers were quickly on the scene , taking two wounded Commandos away and leaving Jock lying on the grass . |