Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 2 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 3 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 4 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 5 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 6 | The GCC foreign ministers were joined in Doha on Sept. 9 by their Syrian and Egyptian counterparts for the sixth meeting of the Damascus Declaration states [ see pp. 38116-17 ; 38885 ] . |
| 7 | These allegations were dismissed by Delors on Oct. 15 as " pure slander " . |
| 8 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Harjinder Singh and Sukhdevo Singh , convicted in 1989 [ see p. 37345 ] of killing in 1986 Gen. Arun Vaidya , the former army chief who led the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar , in Punjab [ see pp. 33221-24 ] , were hanged in Pune on Oct. 9 . |
| 11 | Further violent demonstrations were reported in Douala on Oct. 14 , leaving dozens injured and causing major damage to property . |
| 12 | On Jan. 27 , bombs exploded in Paris and Marseille , causing substantial damage , and attacks were reported in Athens on Jan. 25 and 28 . |
| 13 | Demonstrations against government policy were reported in Aden on Oct. 17 , further heightening tension . |
| 14 | Major education and crime bills were dropped by Congress on Oct. 2 in the face of a determined Republican filibuster in the Senate . |
| 15 | US sanctions introduced in December 1991 against all the Yugoslav republics [ see p. 38684 ] were lifted against Slovenia on Aug. 28 . |
| 16 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 17 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 18 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 19 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 20 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 21 | TEN people were injured in accidents on North-East roads over the weekend . |
| 22 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
| 23 | Submissions were presented by Canada on June 29 and by Switzerland and Japan on Sept. 26-27 , within the framework agreed in April . |
| 24 | The ETB 's Car Park awards were presented in London on Tuesday at a glittering ceremony attended by the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 25 | The conspirators were led by Ealdorman Wada but were defeated in battle on Billington Moor , near Whalley in Lancashire , on 2 April 798 and put to flight . |
| 26 | In the case of RNA polymerase III from mammalian cells three protein fractions were separated by chromatography on phosphocellulose and termed TFIIIA , B and C according to their consecutive elution points from this ion exchanger ( 1 ) . |
| 27 | Excess ATP was destroyed with potato apyrase ( Sigma , Poole , UK ) and labelled , adducted nucleotides were separated by chromatography on PEI cellulose plates ( Camlab , Cambridge , UK ) as described by Gupta . |
| 28 | A number of Romanesque structures were built in Cracow on Wawel Hill , where a royal castle and church were erected , surrounded by a walled , fortified town . |
| 29 | The terms laid out in Resolution 686 were accepted by Iraq on March 3 , as announced on Baghdad radio and conveyed in a letter to the UN from Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz . |
| 30 | Some were imposed by monasteries on benefices of which they were the patrons , sometimes as a halfway stage to appropriation . |