Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was remanded in custody on February 24 for a week and after being granted conditional bail , lived at a probation hostel for a further three weeks . |
| 2 | In Belfast , a brother of Gerry Adams , West Belfast Sinn Fein MP , was remanded in custody on charges arising from a gun attack on an RUC station last weekend . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 5 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 6 | The United States ambassador Thomas Stroock was recalled to Washington on March 5 for consultations , in protest at the failure of the government of President Vinicio Cerezo to contain an upsurge in assassinations widely attributed to right-wing extremists in the Army . |
| 7 | It was withdrawn for use on potatoes in 1990 after tests had also indicated contamination . |
| 8 | This budget was withdrawn by Waigel on Aug. 9 , however , in response to the pace of unification negotiations , and he promised that a new budget would be presented to the Bundestag soon after unification had occurred . |
| 9 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 10 | The chair of the Ostankino Russian State Television and Radio Company , Yegor Yakovlev , was dismissed by Yeltsin on Nov. 25 , following criticism by Akhsarbak Galazov , the Chairman of North Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Republics [ see p. 39203 ] , of a documentary broadcast by Ostankino on Nov. 23 about the North Ossetia-Ingush conflict [ see below ] . |
| 11 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 12 | The boiler-suit stage was completed in Chorzow on Wednesday , when Bobby Robson 's team made sure of a place in Italy next summer with a goalless draw , their third in six qualifying matches ; having kept a clean sheet in the other three , all won , they are entitled to regard themselves as the most workmanlike team in Europe . |
| 13 | During a provincial tour of the south-west , Koirala 's motorcade was stoned by demonstrators on April 27 and some of his staff were injured . |
| 14 | Also on Feb. 5 the Soviet Foreign Minister , Aleksandr Bessmertnykh , had held talks in Moscow with Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen. Mustafa Tlass , while Yemeni Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdul Aziz al-Dali was received in Moscow on Feb. 7 by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky . |
| 15 | A close friend and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Abernathy helped to organize the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott which marked the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement : he was with King when the latter was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 , 1968 , and succeeded him as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) , the organization which the two men had founded in 1957 . |
| 16 | Asshe himself was filled with pride on behalf of his daughter . |
| 17 | It was registered as G–ASTL on June 1 , 1964 . |
| 18 | After a 10-month battle , self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith , 70 , was extradited from Tennessee on Oct. 4 to face a third trial in Mississippi for the killing in 1963 of Medgar Evers , at the time the state 's leading black activist [ see p. 19771 ] . |
| 19 | The Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , who resigned in protest against the coup on Aug. 20 , was reappointed by Gorbachev on Sept. 7 . |
| 20 | The second model ( Fig 12.4 ) illustrates a systemic view of the pre-ERA situation , assuming that , although the primary aim was to deliver education to meet statutory requirements and local needs , the provision of the necessary resources was constrained by limitations on finance , in turn influenced by the requirement to ensure parity of resources in all Colleges controlled by the LEA . |
| 21 | A colonel was killed and his chauffeur wounded in Madrid on Nov. 17 and another colonel was wounded in Valencia on Dec. 15 . |
| 22 | Rutskoi was reported by ITAR-TASS on Oct. 22 as calling for the resignation of six members of the government " to stabilize the political and economic situation in the republic " . |
| 23 | Fresh rioting was reported in Lagos on May 21 after the arrest on May 18 of Beko Ransome Kuti , chairman of the Campaign for Democracy ( CD ) , and of leading CD activists Femi Falana and Baba Omojola . |
| 24 | Martial law was lifted in Beijing on Jan. 11 , having been imposed by the authorities in May 1989 in an attempt to quell growing pro-democracy demonstrations centred in the city 's Tiananmen Square [ see p. 36641 ; see pp. 36720-22 for crushing of pro-democracy movement in early June ] . |
| 25 | The curfew was lifted in Soweto on Oct. 5 . |
| 26 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 27 | YOUR correspondent ‘ Puzzled ’ ( Writeback , August 19 ) complains that an elderly lady of her acquaintance was discharged from hospital on Friday , August 13 , by ‘ taxi ’ , shared with three other disabled senior citizens . |
| 28 | Bob Martinez , former Governor of Florida , who had been defeated in the November gubernatorial elections [ see above ] , was nominated by Bush on Nov. 30 as Bennett 's successor . |
| 29 | The occult section was dominated by works on numerology . |
| 30 | After denaturation of the recombinant proteins in the presence of 7M urea and renaturation by extensive dialysis against buffer 2 , the extract was purified by chromatography on Q-Sepharose as described ( 17 ) and the resulting TFIIA fraction was assayed for its function in transcription assays . |