Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 2 | These were situated on the first floor of the Pavillon de Flore which formed the angle of the Tuileries palace with the Quays and the Seine . |
| 3 | Expectations were examined on the first day of the course and reviewed at the end . |
| 4 | At least 37 deaths were reported on the first of three days of polling . |
| 5 | Police urged racegoers to be on their guard after six separate incidents of forged £20 notes were reported on the first day . |
| 6 | No attacks were made on the 401st Bomb Group , but vicious assaults were made by the enemy fighters on the bomber wing that was flying alongside them . |
| 7 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 8 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 9 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 10 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 11 | Mr speaker I beg to move that the draft European parliamentary constituency 's England order nineteen ninety four erm the draft European parliamentary constituency 's Wales order nineteen ninety four which were laid before the house on the twentieth of January together with the draft European parliamentary election changes to the franchise and qualification of representatives regulations nineteen ninety four which were laid on the second of February , be approved . |
| 12 | Some very bad-luck cases come to mind of apparently indestructible characters who were chopped on the last few sorties — 97th or 98th . |
| 13 | G M B pensioners were represented on the first delegation to visit the E E C in Brussels , in an effort to secure parity with the pensions in other European countries , and we also took part in the pensioners parliament in Luxembourg last year , to help to draw up a Pensioners ' Charter for Europe . |
| 14 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 15 | Further searches were continued on the 16th with Sunderlands and Catalinas of the RAF and wreckage was finally sighted on the night of September 16/17 14° 50'N and 18° W. Only six bodies were recovered ( all passengers ) . |
| 16 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 17 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 18 | Business and elections were conducted on the first day , followed by speeches and discussion spread over the following two days and an evening conversazione where " everybody was in the best of spirits . |
| 19 | In voting for councillors , 38,946 were elected on the first round out of the total of 40,178 , with the NSF winning 15,670 seats ( 40.24 per cent ) , the Democratic Convention 8,088 ( 20.77 per cent ) , the ADP 4,532 ( 11.64 per cent ) , the HDUR 2,606 ( 6.69 per cent ) , independents 2,425 ( 6.23 per cent ) , and the RNUP 1,508 ( 3.87 per cent ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 21 | Yesterday a Birmingham small claims court ordered Warwickshire , the ground authority , to repay the full admission price to five England supporters who felt cheated after only two balls were bowled on the second day of the first Test . |
| 22 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 23 | The minutes of the last meeting which were held on the thirteenth of May , have been circulated . |
| 24 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 25 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 26 | Our newest granddaughter Rachel was christened on the first Sunday of the new year , and that was a wonderful happy day , with a party in her parents ’ home . |
| 27 | The first patient to receive commercially produced penicillin in America was treated on the 14th March 1942 . |
| 28 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 29 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 30 | His dramatic evidence was given on the fourth day of the trial of his former common-law wife Shiela Stroud , 32 , and her lover Mark Evans , 31 . |