Example sentences of "was [noun] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was deified in the Middle Kingdom and a shrine for his cult was build on Elephantine Island . |
| 2 | Amidst worrying indicators that the US recovery may have stalled again — there was a disconcerting fall in capital goods orders in the first quarter , IBM Corp shares are on the slide again , and they were trading at around the $47 mark yesterday ; the 52-week low was $46.375 on January 21 , the lowest since 1975 . |
| 3 | Julia Robinson , last year 's winner , was second on Bugsby Malone and Susan McBrien on Mojo was third . |
| 4 | There was need on Ewan Beg to be silent and row till we were through the narrows , but he had time after that . |
| 5 | And it was art on Monday . |
| 6 | It was Joanne on Mrs Thatcher 's plane at Glasgow Airport . |
| 7 | There was rage on Berger 's face in the mirror as he touched his cheek . |
| 8 | To get the new rate demands printed in time for April East , the deadline was midday on March 31st . |
| 9 | SHE WAS LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION AND HE WAS SPOKESMAN ON NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE TIME . |
| 10 | It was a week before he even suggested they get together again for a drink , and that was lunchtime on Friday , at the end of his second week . |
| 11 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 12 | The Rev. Alexander Buchan was minister on St. Kilda from 1705 until his death in 1730 . |
| 13 | To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings . |
| 14 | There was discussion on Michael Taylor 's proposal for Tim Moulds to become Acting Head of Campaigns for one year , and it was noted that a decision on this would be taken at SMT on Friday 11 December . |
| 15 | Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part . |