Example sentences of "it [was/were] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were on the very fringe of his area he might not be back until lunch-time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village . |
| 4 | It achieved tabloid status in April 1985 , when it was on the front page of the Daily Mirror 's conservation shock issue ; and , as a symbol of wildlife under threat , it is a sure money-maker for such causes as the World Wildlife Fund . |
| 5 | It was on the front page of the New York Times — surely you must recall , Jean-Paul ? ’ |
| 6 | He , that is a photo opportunity that Gerry Addams took and it was on the front page of everybody 's newspaper . |
| 7 | It was on the far side of the yard , opposite the kitchen door . |
| 8 | But he said it was on the 15th , and that 's Thursday . ’ |
| 9 | This was low in 1801 and 1802 but high over the next five years ; it was on the low side in 1812 and 1813 , recovered in 1814 , but was falling again as the wars ended . |
| 10 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 11 | It was on the six o'clock nat well it was on all day , one o'clock , two o'clock , three o'clock |
| 12 | The local slave trading and mercantile community was loud in its support for Harris ' intervention and happy to see , at this early stage of antislavery mobilisation , its interests defended quite as much in general scriptural terms as it was on the broad basis of national interest and community prosperity . |
| 13 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 14 | English , as a subject , had evolved cautiously , and at Oxford , far many years , it was on the defensive . |
| 15 | First , it was on the defensive against the Germans . |
| 16 | It was on the teetotal platform in September 1833 that ‘ Dicky ’ , as temperance reformers affectionately called him , won his modest place in British history . |
| 17 | In Guiseley it was on the latter , the Feast of St Oswald in August , but both custom and festival are now held on the first Sunday in July due to the large number of families being away on holiday in August . |
| 18 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 19 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 20 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 21 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 22 | It was on the first tape . |
| 23 | no did n't see it , it was on the one o'clock news |
| 24 | Nobody comforted her , for weeping was not necessary , but it was on the other hand permissible , and when she got home the aunts and uncles were kind to her and offered her cups of tea . |
| 25 | But it was the same deep gorge — and it was on the other side of the lake ! |
| 26 | He tried to remove a smudge from the windscreen with the tip of his finger , but it was on the other side of the glass . |
| 27 | That , that one , King of the Wind that boy 's love for a sa er well stallion , you said you wanted to see that when it was on the other day . |
| 28 | Because it was on the other B B C one so it should be on this one as well . |
| 29 | It was on the other night . |
| 30 | It was on the other side . |