Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those words were spoken in Dundee on 3 October 1911 by Winston Churchill . |
| 2 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 3 | It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident . |
| 4 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 5 | All items issued to readers were divided into groups on the basis of their date of publication , and the proportion of each group requiring repair ( that is , falling into Categories 3–5 ) was calculated . |
| 6 | Following the lifting of martial law and its reporting restrictions on Jan. 11 , 1990 , new regulations for foreign journalists were brought into effect on Jan. 19 . |
| 7 | Daniel Omara Atubu : aged 44 , a member of the Democratic Party ( DP ) and Minister of State for Foreign and Regional Affairs , he and 17 other prominent citizens from northern Uganda were charged with treason on 7 May 1991 . |
| 8 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 9 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 10 | Female subjects were tested for pregnancy on the morning of the trial . |
| 11 | The excavation also produced an unusual number of ox-goads and styli and all this may indicate the use of the establishment as a place where animals were brought from farms on the estate and prepared for market . |
| 12 | Although the forecast wind did not materialise to assist in drying out the field , a further six aircraft were ferried to Abbotsinch on April 9 . |
| 13 | His concern for religion was shown by service on the commission for the propagation of the gospel in Wales ( where he became a JP ) and by his part in petitions for toleration , which no doubt reinforced contacts with Oliver Cromwell . |
| 14 | A similar deal was signed with Yugoslavia on June 24 , allowing for the bilateral transit of 180,000 vehicles . |
| 15 | Each experiment was performed in duplicate on each dog . |
| 16 | Walker was watched by Roxburgh on Saturday when Hearts beat Dundee United at Tynecastle and was rated ‘ outstanding ’ by the national coach , who once worked with the goalkeeper at Scotland Youth level 12 years ago . |
| 17 | A meeting of 120 " anti-imperialist " representatives of Arab political parties and organizations was held in Amman on Sept. 15-17 . |
| 18 | Out of all these considerations a Pact of Mutual Assistance and Unified Command was concluded in Warsaw on 14 May 1955 . |
| 19 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 20 | The prosecution 's case against Gotti was hampered by reliance on evidence based on inconclusive and largely inaudible tape recordings , and by the reluctance of witnesses to testify against him . |
| 21 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 22 | A meeting between representatives of the government and 26 political parties was held in Luanda on Jan. 14-26 to discuss the transition to democracy . |
| 23 | Nearly 300 kg of pure cocaine belonging to the Colombian Medellín cartel was seized in Madrid on Jan. 8 , 1990 , and 11 Colombians and one Venezuelan were arrested . |
| 24 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 25 | After denaturation of the recombinant proteins in the presence of 7M urea and renaturation by extensive dialysis against buffer 2 , the extract was purified by chromatography on Q-Sepharose as described ( 17 ) and the resulting TFIIA fraction was assayed for its function in transcription assays . |
| 26 | One would like to know more , for example , of the circumstances in which Sihtric Silkbeard 's son Olaf was killed by Englishmen on his way to Rome in 1034 , and about the death of Caradog , son of Rhydderch ab Iestyn , at the hands of the English in 1035 . |
| 27 | A new five-year agreement for Soviet grain purchases from the United States was concluded in Vienna on March 22 , to replace the 1983 agreement due to expire at the end of 1990 . |
| 28 | A Congregational Picnic was held in Killicomaine on the evening of Thursday 26 June 1952 and proved a great success . |
| 29 | Roger Edward Wentworth Manley was born in London on June 29 1930 and educated at King 's College School , Wimbledon , and London University . |
| 30 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |