Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 1989 , hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed to death on the terraces of Sheffield 's Hillsborough Stadium before the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest . |
| 2 | The four ringleaders were sentenced to death on the gibbet and their bodies were hung in chains at various crossroads on the moor . |
| 3 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 4 | Two Iraqis , aged 29 and 49 , were sentenced to death on May 5 for informing on and torturing Kuwaitis who had formed part of the resistance to the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91 . |
| 5 | Unknowingly we had sampled ( and enthusiastically approved ) this speciality the previous day when we were invited to lunch on the large covered terrace . |
| 6 | Three members of the illegal Hezbollah organization were condemned to death on March 1 by a criminal court in Tlemcen . |
| 7 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 8 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 9 | Aliquots ( 40 nl ) were subjected to electrophoresis on 5% SDS PAGE slab gels . |
| 10 | An investigation was mounted after Raynsford and Kemp were taken to hospital on Saturday after being found unconscious , with head and body injuries , in their cell . |
| 11 | Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement . |
| 12 | Senior members marked the competitors ' cards and the caddies were allowed to practice on the course beforehand ! |
| 13 | He never had a ‘ burning ambition ’ to be a merchant banker , he says , but was attracted to County on his return to England because it was a new venture that was attracting the smaller , rapidly expanding companies he was interested in . |
| 14 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 15 | TROY was sentenced to death on his 16th birthday . |
| 16 | Iliescu also announced on June 20 the nomination of Petre Roman as Prime Minister , calling on him to form a new government , which was presented to parliament on June 28 . |
| 17 | The 1990 budget was presented to parliament on Nov. 17 , 1989 , by then Finance Minister Said Ahmed Said Ali . |
| 18 | The budget for the fiscal year ending on March 31 , 1991 , was presented to parliament on Feb. 20 , 1990 [ see p. 37415 ] . |
| 19 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 20 | According to the draft budget for 1990 which was presented to Congress on Nov. 15 , 1989 , real expenditure was projected to increase by 4.7 per cent ( to be financed by a 13.4 per cent increase in public revenues ) and external debt interest payments would be reduced from 3.8 to 2.6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 21 | He was listening to electro-funk on the car stereo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 24 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 25 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 26 | Colin Stagg has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in front of her two-year-old son . |
| 27 | A MAN seriously ill in hospital was stabbed to death on a general medical ward . |
| 28 | The last recorded batch , of three female monkeys from Woburn , was sold to Shamrock on December 4 , 1990 . |
| 29 | So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ? |
| 30 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |