Example sentences of "was [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 2 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 3 | It was right on the main road and he was there years and years and years |
| 4 | He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’ |
| 5 | The German was somewhere on the H-shaped catwalk on the opposite side of the shed . |
| 6 | In the first series the emphasis was all on the very street-sussed young women who went out and solved all kinds of crimes , problems and so on . |
| 7 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 8 | — but was obviously on the wrong side of the finance barrier . |
| 9 | He had n't seen the tug at first because it was alongside on the far side . |
| 10 | The climax of the evening was perhaps on the premature side , as the star of the saga , David Holburn alias Rob himself , appeared complete with fake beard on stage before every performance , ‘ Just tae greet ye . ’ |
| 11 | The Head was constantly on the alert for the emergence of what he termed ‘ congruence ’ . |
| 12 | In his presence she was constantly on the defensive , and that made her uncharacteristically prickly . |
| 13 | The Treasury Solicitor 's office provides legal advice and conveyancing and litigation services to a wide range of Government departments and Henry Ware 's career in the office , until he became head of it , was entirely on the advisory side . |
| 14 | Kubitsky was below on the main bay deck . |
| 15 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 17 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
| 18 | For example , in Caquezo and Rio Negro in Colombia corn and potato yields have improved 200 and 90 per cent respectively on hillside farms which were able to adopt the improved technology ( Sepuldeva 1980 ) , although this example was only on a limited scale . |
| 19 | I assured him I was only on a romantic , misty-eyed mission , though secretly I was wishing I 'd sent the birthday card instead to Winston Place . |
| 20 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 21 | And it was only on the final day of their trip to London that the Hit Men took the tiny teenager into the recording studio . |
| 22 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 23 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 24 | Xerox was soon on the receiving end of intense competition , notably from Japan . |
| 25 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |
| 26 | Mr M by this time was away on the outer islands for four days a week . |
| 27 | Then , too , Jackie made a misjudgement in 1966 and 1967 : he stayed in BRM when that team was already on the slippery slope towards oblivion . |
| 28 | In South Africa , Jackie was already on the front row of the grid but the engine gave up on him . |
| 29 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 30 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |