Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 2 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 3 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 4 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 5 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 8 | On April 13 a similar raid had been conducted on six soda ash producers in the UK , the Netherlands , France and West Germany . |
| 9 | The first amphibious raid — three officers landing between Boulogne and Etaples — had been mounted on 2–3 June by MIR with informal contacts in the Royal Navy , who provided a trawler . |
| 10 | The election results had been announced on 6 March . |
| 11 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 12 | Laporte ( speciality chemicals ) has incorporated a restated group p&l account plus notes in its interim report for the six months ended 3 July 1992 , on the basis that the Interox restructuring had been completed on 1 January 1992 . |
| 13 | More recently , the disease had been confirmed on eight sheep premises , believed not to have imported recently . |
| 14 | To add a bit of spice to the proceedings a sketchy transition had been tacked on one end of the ramp and that was the main focus of attention , especially in the grown-ups group . |
| 15 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 16 | Rufus had been killed on 2 August , whether by conspiracy or accident will never be resolved . |
| 17 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 18 | Since independence in 1980 some 52,000 peasant farmers had been resettled on 3,000,000 hectares purchased from the 4,000-strong white farming community , but whites still owned 12,000,000 hectares ( 40 per cent of Zimbabwe 's total land area ) . |
| 19 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 20 | Although the final war bulletin had been signed on 1 April 1939 , Franco did not enter the capital until 18 May , which was Ascension Day that year . |
| 21 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 22 | His encyclical Mystici Corporis had been published on 29 June 1943 ; in other words , only three months before Divino Afflante Spiritu . |
| 23 | If the Young Pretender had marched into England directly after Prestonpans , which had been fought on 21 September , he would have found a country ill-prepared to resist him , but many of his followers were reluctant to cross the Border . |
| 24 | A further Hearing of Orkney Children 's Panel had been held on 25 March to extend the orders and keep the children in care . |
| 25 | Until the fourth century , moreover , Jesus 's birthday had been celebrated on 6 January . |
| 26 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 27 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 28 | By 1987 240 million guilders had been spent on 280 projects in more than 100 cities , with another 200 million for rural facilities . |
| 29 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 30 | This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May . |