Example sentences of "was on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children 's mother , Anne-Marie Baillie , 23 , was on a rare night out when the tragedy happened . |
| 2 | Mr Menendez , from New Jersey , was on a six-day visit to examine the legal system . |
| 3 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 4 | But she could not see all the way , it was feasible that he was on a lower flight and she would come face to face with him . |
| 5 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 6 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 7 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 8 | I was on a real holiday buzz , had a big , erm … party , y'know , and got totally fuckin' kettled . |
| 9 | When I joined they had just published The Thorn Birds so Futura was on a real high — it had expanded considerably over the previous 18 months . ’ |
| 10 | But , you see , she was on a real pardon me ! |
| 11 | Buckingham Palace said only that Charles was on a private weekend . |
| 12 | A group of soldiers seized the radio station and airport at Moroni , the capital , on Sept. 26 , while President Said Mohammed Djohar was on a private visit to Paris . |
| 13 | Michael Heseltine , who 's sixty , was on a private holiday in Venice with his wife Anne , when he was taken ill early this morning . |
| 14 | MY FIRST remembered visit to Bilsdale , in the North York Moors , was on a junior school bus trip circa 1947 . |
| 15 | My first sight of a Lofoten fishing port was on a small island off Svolvær . |
| 16 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 17 | Mrs Wright lifted a vase of flowers that was on a small table by the door so that she could see how much water was in . |
| 18 | In which case we may predict that this craft activity was on a small scale producing no concentrated evidence . |
| 19 | This club was on a small island off the coast ; it was reached by a causeway . |
| 20 | During the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Mould family moved home frequently but their mobility was on a small scale and most members earned their living as tailors or smallholders or a combination of the two occupations . |
| 21 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 22 | It was a peculiar street because Street was on a higher level and at one time , the dam which must have been open , now the dam when I mention the dam , it 's the mill lead , but known to everybody in Galashiels as the dam . |
| 23 | I was on a tricky bend , the road falling away sharply and badly in need of a grader . |
| 24 | Mellor was on a Middle East tour as a junior Foreign Office Minister in 1988 and international news teams were in tow as he picked on the officer during a visit to the Gaza Strip 's biggest refugee camp . |
| 25 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 26 | Girls ' highest mean success rates relative to boys ' was on a pure computation item ( 112 ÷ 7 ; girls six percentage points higher ) . |
| 27 | Of course I knew that Neil was in an extremely well-paid job — even so , Jim was on a reasonable salary and he did n't buy me gifts like that — not even at Christmas . |
| 28 | Last year , at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , it was generally agreed that the US deficit was less of a threat because it was on a downward path . |
| 29 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 30 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |