Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Falklands were invaded on 2 April last year , they were given the weekend to pack and a police escort to the Dover ferry . |
| 2 | Markham was dismissed on 31 October 1551 for over-generous treatment of his prisoners . |
| 3 | A further branch line , for passengers , was opened from Craigleith via a station at Davidsons Mains to Barnton on 1 March 1894 ( and House o' Hill was opened on 1 February 1937 ) . |
| 4 | Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Bockhampton , about three miles from the county town of Dorchester , in an isolated cottage built by his great-grandfather . |
| 5 | RICHARD was born on 8 September 1157 at Oxford , presumably in the royal palace of Beaumont . |
| 6 | When the Liberian shuttle tanker Medusa was hit on 10 June 1986 , it was its third hit in nine months . |
| 7 | After months of negotiation , the agreement with the United States was signed on 26 September 1953 . |
| 8 | The records show that Tepilit was hanged on 18 March 1944 . |
| 9 | Haile Selassie was crowned on 2 November in St George 's Cathedral . |
| 10 | The man who became Sukarno was born on 6 June 1901 . |
| 11 | From Pavilion also comes another title in the Gardening Guide series : Lawn & Ground Cover by Stephen Lacey was published on 21 February at £12.95 . |
| 12 | Gamal Abdul Nasser was born on 15 January 1918 in Alexandria , and grew p in the political turmoil of Egypt between the two world wars . |
| 13 | Five-week-old Christopher was admitted on 12 April because of vomiting and was found to be suffering from a narrowing of the exit of the stomach . |
| 14 | It was concealed , with disastrous results , for Culpepper and Dereham were executed on 1 December 1540 . |
| 15 | The outer forts on the Dardanelles were bombarded on 19 February 1915 , and the Greek island of Lemnos occupied as a base . |
| 16 | Contracts for the sale of Caliban were exchanged on 17 June 1985 and completion took place on 13 November . |
| 17 | Dickens is published on 3 September by Sinclair-Stevenson , £19.95 . |
| 18 | The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 . |
| 19 | Cameron was resolved on one thing . |
| 20 | To celebrate its joining the electric network , Cambridge was visited on 23 March by the Minister of Transport ( David Mitchell ) on a recordbreaking ( 48 minute ) trip from Liverpool Street . |
| 21 | JOHN GEORGE HAIGH was executed on 10 August 1949 for the murder , in London , of Olive Durand-Deacon , a wealthy widow . |
| 22 | Puck was born on 3 January 1923 . |
| 23 | A city of 3.2 million people , Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water and dominated by the glistening gold stupa of the Shwedagon . |
| 24 | Allitt was arrested on 21 May and released the next day . |
| 25 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez was arrested on 5 April 1990 in Havana and brought to trial on 12 October on charges of making ‘ enemy propaganda ’ . |
| 26 | Doris Shelley was discovered on 11 February , lying on the floor of her bungalow in the Suffolk village of Martlesham with serious injuries to her head and face . |
| 27 | Moncef Triki was tried on 1 August 1991 for membership of al-Nahda ( Renaissance ) , an illegal Islamic organisation , and for holding an unauthorised meeting , although no evidence of any such meeting was presented during the court hearing . |
| 28 | Turberville was arrested on 24 September 1295 , and was tried promptly , on 8 October . |
| 29 | President J. F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November , when he was forty-six years old , and the world was numb . |
| 30 | Bobby Stanley Pons was born on 8 February 1943 in Valdese North Carolina . |