Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the second Test , Willey 's last nine Test innings had produced 90 runs , and , had he been caught when on 13 at Old Trafford , his Test days would almost certainly have been over ; as it was , his 62 not out there and his reputation as a battler persuaded the selectors to press on with him , and he justified their faith now . |
| 2 | Yet The red pencil is the chewed one is quite normal on both readings , which would not be expected if on one of the readings pencil referred only to the core . |
| 3 | The sheet then recorded that Mr. Bell had been charged that on 15 February 1990 he was guilty of drunk and disorderly behaviour in Faulkner Street , Liverpool , contrary to section 91 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and that on 1 February 1990 Mr. Bell was committed to the Liverpool Crown Court and was released on bail under a duty to surrender into the custody of the said court at such time and date as would be notified to him ‘ and Constable 677F Whittaker alleges that you have broken conditions of your bail not to approach Bridget Coffey . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | But its arguments were ignored and on 5 July BCCI was put into liquidation . |
| 6 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 7 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
| 8 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 9 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 10 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 11 | On 23 May a receiving order was made and on 11 November 1983 the husband was adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 12 | On 11 December 1991 the interim order was made and on 23 December 1991 the order under appeal was made . |
| 13 | Such a link was made when on 20 February 1984 a heavy fall of black snow took place in the Cairngorms in Scotland . |
| 14 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |