Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] on [num] " in BNC.

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1 There was an increase of 20 per cent in the number of cycles completed per unit time after reorganisation from the conventional to the composite longwall system ( a cycle being the three processes of preparation , getting , and advancing ) , though they do note that , at the same time , better conveyors were introduced and on one face there was a change from hewing the coal to cutting it ( Trist et al. 1963 , 256 ) .
2 But its arguments were ignored and on 5 July BCCI was put into liquidation .
3 On 23 May a receiving order was made and on 11 November 1983 the husband was adjudicated bankrupt .
4 On 11 December 1991 the interim order was made and on 23 December 1991 the order under appeal was made .
5 Such a link was made when on 20 February 1984 a heavy fall of black snow took place in the Cairngorms in Scotland .
6 It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence .
7 He was court-martialled and on 3 May 1916 he was executed by a firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol , Dublin , as on 4 May was his brother William , who had acted as his aide-de-camp .
8 Anson well knew that if control of the Channel was lost all was lost and on 5 April he assured the king that his fleet , with 30 ships of the line , would by the following month outnumber the French , with their 27 warships between Brest and Rochefort .
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