Example sentences of "was on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piatakov , a Ukrainian , now argued that , following Lenin 's April theses , prepared on his return to Russia , which rejected the existing party policy of supporting the provisional government and set the Party on the road to the seizure of power , socialism was on the immediate agenda , not the establishment of a bourgeois republic . |
| 2 | But mass movements can not be built on denunciation alone , and few people believed that ‘ worker 's power ’ was on the immediate agenda . |
| 3 | The Hotel Normandie was on the fifth floor of one of the tall buildings overlooking the east harbour . |
| 4 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 5 | At fourteen hands she was on the small side for polo , with a lovely intelligent head , wide-apart dark eyes , clean legs and a smooth , effortless stride . |
| 6 | This certainly locked the blade at the correct depth , but was on the small side , especially for its rather inaccessible position . |
| 7 | She was on the small cot bed . |
| 8 | The most likely source of water was on the higher ground to the south . |
| 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 | Turnover was on the low side at 529 million . |
| 11 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Service providers were questioned about such matters as their attitudes towards new technology , and their willingness to adapt to new circumstances , whilst the emphasis for service users was on the possible effect in terms of work results and achievements . |
| 14 | His speech of 1 November 1962 made references to ’ some differences ' between the two governments , but it was asserted that ‘ Nothing shall come between the Soviet Union and Cuba ’ , and the emphasis was on the Soviet arms which had not been withdrawn rather than on the missiles which had ( Cuba Socialista , no. 16 , Dec. 1962 , pp. 28–30 , in Clissold : 1970 , p. 276 ) . |
| 15 | The immediate effect was on the two housing areas known as East and West Ropery Banks ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1976 , 1978c ) . |
| 16 | I was on the downhill slope of a new novel and needed to visit the Reading Room at the British Museum most days . |
| 17 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 18 | Yes , I 'm a resident of Standlake and erm my husband was on the working party for Standlake when this was last proposed . |
| 19 | While he was on the correct route he was not guilty even though he intended to steal . |
| 20 | I do n't think it 's necessary to portray and try and show the poverty and primitiveness , my emphasis was on the close-knit family units and the craft of these people . ’ |
| 21 | A decision by the Germans to leave their interest rates unchanged put the skids under prices in London and the FT-SE 100 was on the slippery slope . |
| 22 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 23 | She was on the critical list . |
| 24 | The Harvard dealer was on the sharp end of clients ' complaints . |
| 25 | After completing the airshow routine , John was on the homeward flight back to the UK when he ran into bad weather . |
| 26 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 27 | Whose picture was on the smallest stamp ? |
| 28 | My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart . |
| 29 | The principal cipher clerk in the Vatican was on the Hanoverian pay-roll , as was a senior clerk in the French Foreign Office , and the latter , in February 1744 , supplied details of the French invasion plans , which were sufficiently convincing for George II , on 15 February 1744 , to send a warning message to Parliament . |
| 30 | His anger was fully under control , but his pride in his own craftsmanship was disturbed beyond recovery , and though he was on the front row again in Holland at the next race , I know that by Monza he realized he had been defeated by forces beyond his control . |