Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 4 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 5 | Marcos ruled the Philippines for 20 years before Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 6 | The issue has divided the country more than any since Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 7 | Following an appeal made by Major during his visit , the Hong Kong businessman Luo Haixing was released from prison on Sept. 9 " on bail for medical treatment outside the country " . |
| 8 | An attempt to hold a referendum calling for the resignation of parliament and elections in December was defeated by parliament on Oct. 29 . |
| 9 | Matthew was born with water on the brain . |
| 10 | When PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death on 6 October 1985 during the rioting in the Broadwater Farm Estate he was the first Metropolitan policeman to be killed in a riot since PC Culley in 1833 . |
| 11 | The strike call drew only a modest response , with an estimated 6,000 stopping work instead of the 60,000 projected by the Sandinista media ( whose radio station Radio Primerísima was destroyed by dynamite on Sept. 30 ) . |
| 12 | TROY was sentenced to death on his 16th birthday . |
| 13 | A constitutional amendment endorsing the creation of a legislative assembly and council of ministers for Delhi was approved by Parliament on Dec. 20 . |
| 14 | John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump . |
| 15 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 16 | for the record , No 55020 Nimbus was taken into service on 2 December 1962 and named the same day . |
| 17 | A Council of Europe convention on minority languages in Europe was opened for signature on Nov. 5 , when it was signed by 11 of the 27 member states . |
| 18 | Cowley was talking with Interpol on the phone . |
| 19 | A former member of the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and head of the DPP 's moderate Formosa faction , Hsu was imprisoned for sedition on his return from exile in 1989 , but was released in a presidential amnesty in 1990 . |
| 20 | Zosimo Alpino was released on bail on 13 December 1990 . |
| 21 | A senior Australian UN officer was wounded when a helicopter of the UN advance mission in Cambodia was hit by gunfire on Feb. 26 while flying over Khmer Rouge-controlled territory in Kompong Thom Province . |
| 22 | The Contemporary Arts Centre of Cincinnati was acquitted of obscenity on Oct. 5 for having displayed an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe . |
| 23 | President Najibullah was removed from power on April 15 , after elements of the ruling Hezb-e Watan , with some military support , carried out what was effectively a low-key coup . |
| 24 | Consequently , Mr. Bell was released on bail on the same conditions as before . |
| 25 | The Montgomery ( 165 ) sheet in the Welsh Borders was completed by work on the marine Ludlow sequence and overlying fluviatile Přídolí mudstones and sandstones . |
| 26 | Two-year-old Henry was admitted to hospital on 28 March . |
| 27 | NEALE Doughty was left with egg on his face after turning down the ride on Haydock stalwart Twin Oaks in favour of Pat 's Jester yesterday . |
| 28 | Donald Murphy was remanded in custody on an assault charge by Teesside magistrates last Friday . |