Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Markham was dismissed on 31 October 1551 for over-generous treatment of his prisoners .
2 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 ) .
3 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 .
4 RICHARD was born on 8 September 1157 at Oxford , presumably in the royal palace of Beaumont .
5 When the Liberian shuttle tanker Medusa was hit on 10 June 1986 , it was its third hit in nine months .
6 After months of negotiation , the agreement with the United States was signed on 26 September 1953 .
7 The records show that Tepilit was hanged on 18 March 1944 .
8 Haile Selassie was crowned on 2 November in St George 's Cathedral .
9 The man who became Sukarno was born on 6 June 1901 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 .
14 Cameron was resolved on one thing .
15 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 .
16 JOHN GEORGE HAIGH was executed on 10 August 1949 for the murder , in London , of Olive Durand-Deacon , a wealthy widow .
17 Puck was born on 3 January 1923 .
18 Allitt was arrested on 21 May and released the next day .
19 Orlando Azcué Rodriguez was arrested on 5 April 1990 in Havana and brought to trial on 12 October on charges of making ‘ enemy propaganda ’ .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Turberville was arrested on 24 September 1295 , and was tried promptly , on 8 October .
23 President J. F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November , when he was forty-six years old , and the world was numb .
24 Bobby Stanley Pons was born on 8 February 1943 in Valdese North Carolina .
25 The SDP was launched on 26 March 1981 , by the ‘ Gang of Four ’ : Mr Jenkins , Mrs Williams , Dr Owen and Mr Rodgers .
26 William Carey was born on 17 August 1761 in the little Northampton village of Paulerspury , the eldest son of Elizabeth and Edmund Carey , a poor weaver who later became village schoolmaster and parish clerk .
27 The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams .
28 LIFFOE was formed on 23 March 1992 by the merger of the London International Financial Futures Exchange and the London Traded Options Market .
29 That suggests the Bank has spent $3bn-$4bn of its foreign exchange and gold reserves , worth $42bn when the latest official figures were released last Tuesday , since the £2bn current account deficit for August was disclosed on 26 September .
30 The son of a furniture and domestic appliance merchant , Charles Garrett was born on 1 April 1932 in the small Texas town of Lufkin .
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