Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 2 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 3 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |
| 4 | Soviet troop withdrawals began on 15 May and were completed on schedule on 15 February 1989 ; Shevardnadze , addressing the Supreme Soviet the following October , described the original decision to intervene as a violation of ‘ general human values ’ and of party and state procedures . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tanks were withdrawn from Tirana on Feb. 25 and the city was reported to be calm , but army patrols remained , and sporadic gunfire was reported each night until the end of the month . |
| 7 | Hick and Hughes were extradited to Germany on July 16 to face charges connected with the bombing of barracks at Langenhagen , near Hannover in May 1990 , and with the murder of a British army major in Dortmund four days after the Roermond shootings [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 8 | Key Mafia figures arrested independently of the operation in September were Giuseppe Madonia , the Sicilian Mafia 's second in command , on Sept. 6 ; Pasquale , Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera , powerful Sicilian Mafia " bankers " and drug traffickers who were extradited from Venezuela on Sept.11 after years of delays ; Carmine Alfieri , the Camorra chief described as Italy 's major gangster , on Sept. 11 ; and Domenico Libri , the supposed head of the Calabrian Mafia or N'Drangheta , in Marseille on Sept.16 . |
| 9 | These allow an understanding of the range over which materials were gathered for use on the farm , reflecting the extent of human movement and interaction . |
| 10 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 11 | The GCC foreign ministers were joined in Doha on Sept. 9 by their Syrian and Egyptian counterparts for the sixth meeting of the Damascus Declaration states [ see pp. 38116-17 ; 38885 ] . |
| 12 | These allegations were dismissed by Delors on Oct. 15 as " pure slander " . |
| 13 | Troops from Benghazi lined the perimeter of the playground , and were posted with machine-guns on the roofs of buildings overlooking the election . |
| 14 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 15 | The Dwarfs were surrounded by foes on all sides . |
| 16 | The Mam I- Sfa NI , Mam I- Sau 3A and Xba I- Pvu II deoP2 fragments were purified by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels after labelling of the 5'-end of the Mam I site with polynucleotide kinase in the presence of γ- 32 P-ATP and the 3'-end of the Xba I site with Klenow fragment in the presence of α- 32 P-dCTP. 0.8 nM of the labelled fragments and various concentrations ( indicated in the Legend in Fig. 3 ) of CytR or CRP were incubated in binding buffer ( 10 mM Tris HCl ( pH 7.8 ) , 50 mM KCl , 1 mM EDTA , 50 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumine , 1 mM dithiothreitol , 0.05 % Nonidet-P40 ) containing 20 µg/ml competitor DNA ( pGEM4 obtained from Promega ) for 30 min. at 37°C in a total volume of 10 µl ( 6 ) . |
| 17 | Harjinder Singh and Sukhdevo Singh , convicted in 1989 [ see p. 37345 ] of killing in 1986 Gen. Arun Vaidya , the former army chief who led the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar , in Punjab [ see pp. 33221-24 ] , were hanged in Pune on Oct. 9 . |
| 18 | Further violent demonstrations were reported in Douala on Oct. 14 , leaving dozens injured and causing major damage to property . |
| 19 | On Jan. 27 , bombs exploded in Paris and Marseille , causing substantial damage , and attacks were reported in Athens on Jan. 25 and 28 . |
| 20 | Demonstrations against government policy were reported in Aden on Oct. 17 , further heightening tension . |
| 21 | Major education and crime bills were dropped by Congress on Oct. 2 in the face of a determined Republican filibuster in the Senate . |
| 22 | US sanctions introduced in December 1991 against all the Yugoslav republics [ see p. 38684 ] were lifted against Slovenia on Aug. 28 . |
| 23 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 24 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 25 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 26 | Along the way Mark Finlay , briefly an All Black fullback , and Marty Brooke , on the fringe of joining his two brothers in All Black colours , were attracted to Japan on working/coaching assignments . |
| 27 | Its scientists were evacuated to Scotland on the outbreak of war , but German intelligence knew precisely how important Bawdsey still was to the defence of Britain . |
| 28 | More than 100 foreign aid workers were evacuated from Juba on Jan. 29-30 , benefiting from a brief ceasefire called by the SPLA . |
| 29 | Two more Hurricanes were claimed by O.K.W. on this date . |
| 30 | The fourth element that the plaintiff has to prove is that the acts done by her were done in reliance on or as a result of her belief that she would become entitled to the deceased 's property on his death … |