Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [prep] [noun prp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 2 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 3 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 4 | As one of the final stages in the government 's privatization programme , three major state-owned steel companies were sold off on Nov. 20 for a total price of $885,000,000 . |
| 5 | The hunger strikes were called off on Oct. 20 , although the PPD said that it would continue its boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 6 | The strikes were called off on May 23 after an appeal from Gorbachev . |
| 7 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 8 | Most surprising addition has been Lockheed YF–117A stealth fighter 79–10781 , one of the only two YK–117s built , the other was written off in May 1978 . |
| 9 | In the first round , 60 per cent of the state-owned telecommunications company Entel was sold off in June 1990 [ see p. 37529 ] and the army was used to suppress a subsequent strike of 40,000 telecommunication workers [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 10 | The officers ' occupation was called off on Feb. 15 , with an agreement that the appointment of a civilian Defence Minister should be postponed until after the May general election . |
| 11 | The strike was called off on Feb. 21 after all 20 of the workers ' claims were resolved in negotiations with the government . |
| 12 | The strike was called off on July 15 , when the opposition met Ratsiraka for talks , but their dissatisfaction with the results prompted a resumption of strike action and the announcement that a retired general , Jean Rakotoharison , had been appointed president of the opposition provisional government , with Albert Zafy as prime minister . |
| 13 | The student strike under way since early November was called off on Dec. 11 . |
| 14 | The strike was called off on Dec. 12 . |
| 15 | The strike since Nov. 29 by Members of the Confederation of Independent Bulgarian Trade Unions ( CITUB ) was called off on Dec. 6 . |
| 16 | A call by the Federation of Niger Trade Unions ( USTN ) for a general strike " in defence of democracy " was widely observed on March 2 but was called off on March 3 following government pledges that no political concessions would be made to the mutineers . |
| 17 | The public-sector strike which had begun on April 27 [ see p. 38872 ] was called off on May 7 after 11 days , and further strikes by the engineering and other private-sector unions were also avoided . |
| 18 | In the event the hunger strike was called off on May 12 , 1989 , on the basis of the concessions offered by the SPD-ruled Länder : concessions not implemented in the other states . |
| 19 | However , industrial action was called off on Sept. 3 , as reportedly the government had acceded to all the Federation 's demands and revoked criminal charges against strikers . |
| 20 | The first of the six Soviet-built reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear plant was switched off on Sept. 4 , as had been announced in July following a highly critical safety report [ see p. 38350 ] . |
| 21 | Sandra Mary Gregory appeared in court with her travelling companion and codefendant Robert Frank Lock , but their hearing was put off until July 2 because lawyers failed to attend . |
| 22 | Yet that was paid off in December 1880 . |