Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [art] same day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegations were dismissed on the same day by an Egyptian Interior Ministry official , who cited a small number of cases of abuses by policemen but claimed that they had been properly investigated . |
| 2 | Vitaly Doguzhiyev and Vladimir Velichko were approved on the same day as First Deputy Premiers , and Yury Maslyukov and Nikolai Laverov as Deputy Premiers . |
| 3 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
| 4 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 5 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 6 | Their claims were supported on the same day by UK Foreign Office sources who said that Iraqi forces were pursuing a policy of " tremendous inhumanity " . |
| 7 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 8 | Kiprono Nicholas K. Biwott , dismissed in November as Minister of Industry , and Hezekiah Oyugi , dismissed in October as Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President and chief of state security , were released on the same day because of lack of evidence . |
| 9 | Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres . |
| 10 | Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | Legislative elections were held on the same day [ see p. 37766 ] . |
| 12 | President Jaime Paz Zamora was reported on the same day to have requested that the Congress authorize the presence of US troops in the eastern Beni region , and sought congressional approval for a law to support the presence of foreign troops in the future . |
| 13 | My next point is on a relatively minor announcement that was made on the same day that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the changes in benefits and contributions . |
| 14 | The composition of his government was approved on the same day . |
| 15 | Sadly , it was broadcast on the same day that this remarkable man died … |
| 16 | The machines have been priced competitively , bearing in mind the Japanese pricing of Sun Microsystem 's Classic and IBM 's Powerstation , and the launch was timed on the same day as the announcement of new machines in DEC 's Alpha series . |
| 17 | The machines have been priced competitively , bearing in mind the Japanese pricing of Sun Microsystem 's Classic and IBM 's Powerstation , and the launch was timed on the same day as the announcement of new machines in DEC 's Alpha series . |
| 18 | My cousin , who is pregnant , was born on the same day as Arthur 's , who is the father . |
| 19 | He was born on the same day as Sarah but he 's an hour earlier . |
| 20 | The announcement was followed on the same day by the presentation to the Netherlands parliament of proposals to reduce the country 's troop levels in West Germany by 750 ( out of a total of 5,500 ) between 1991 and 1992 . |
| 21 | When US assistance for the French in Vietnam was announced on the same day as the ‘ Schuman Plan ’ that was to merge coal and steel production in France and Germany ‘ and thus make war between the two countries not only unthinkable but materially impossible ’ , it was the prospect of strengthening France , and Germany , in the defence of Western Europe that filled Acheson 's political landscape . |
| 22 | It was announced on the same day that " political committees " had been formed in the Occupied Territories . |
| 23 | However , an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman , when he was asked on the same day whether negotiations had been more constructive with regard to the long-standing Kashmir dispute , said only that " the talks should be viewed as a measured and gradual approach to stabilization of our relations " . |
| 24 | The Libyan representative at the ICJ was quoted on the same day as saying that the two suspects would remain in Libya " at the disposal " of the Arab League . |
| 25 | The top priorities of his programme , which was endorsed on the same day , were stabilization of the domestic market , cuts in exports to COMECON ( Council of Mutual Economic Assistance , or CMEA ) partners , curbing the increase in hard-currency foreign debt , an active social policy , and measures to solve the worst environmental problems . |
| 26 | The election for the governorship of Tierra del Fuego was held on the same day . |
| 27 | Diplomatic negotiations to end the hostage crisis , launched in August by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar [ see p. 38405 ] , achieved some successes with the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) releasing 51 Arab prisoners on Sept. 11 ; the body of a kidnapped Israeli serviceman was returned on the same day , and British hostage Jackie Mann was freed in Beirut on Sept. 24 . |