Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 2 | Mikel Marku , a 62-year-old lawyer from Péc , was stopped by police on the evening of 31 October 1991 while driving a friend 's car . |
| 3 | This treaty was ratified at Calais on 24 October 1360 , with one important modification . |
| 4 | Thus was the criminal equated with the Vietcong soldier , the only difference being that the former was struggling against capitalism on the home front . |
| 5 | In Belfast , a brother of Gerry Adams , West Belfast Sinn Fein MP , was remanded in custody on charges arising from a gun attack on an RUC station last weekend . |
| 6 | She was remanded in custody on February 24 for a week and after being granted conditional bail , lived at a probation hostel for a further three weeks . |
| 7 | UPROAR broke out in a Liverpool courtroom after a 62year-old man was remanded in custody on an alleged drug plot charge . |
| 8 | Donald Murphy was remanded in custody on an assault charge by Teesside magistrates last Friday . |
| 9 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 10 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 11 | Jacek Kozlowski , director of the government press office under Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki 's government until its replacement in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , was reinstated by Suchocka on Aug. 4 . |
| 12 | The United States ambassador Thomas Stroock was recalled to Washington on March 5 for consultations , in protest at the failure of the government of President Vinicio Cerezo to contain an upsurge in assassinations widely attributed to right-wing extremists in the Army . |
| 13 | Almost as soon as he commenced taking evidence , Beveridge was inundated with memoranda on the needs of the elderly . |
| 14 | It was withdrawn for use on potatoes in 1990 after tests had also indicated contamination . |
| 15 | This budget was withdrawn by Waigel on Aug. 9 , however , in response to the pace of unification negotiations , and he promised that a new budget would be presented to the Bundestag soon after unification had occurred . |
| 16 | The first church was formed in Salvador on 15th October 1882 with five members . |
| 17 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 18 | The chair of the Ostankino Russian State Television and Radio Company , Yegor Yakovlev , was dismissed by Yeltsin on Nov. 25 , following criticism by Akhsarbak Galazov , the Chairman of North Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Republics [ see p. 39203 ] , of a documentary broadcast by Ostankino on Nov. 23 about the North Ossetia-Ingush conflict [ see below ] . |
| 19 | To judge from Maud 's letters — as we have to , since most of Yeats 's were destroyed — the relationship thereafter was tinged with resignation on both sides , with Yeats proposing marriage every so often but not being greatly upset when he was once again turned down . |
| 20 | Her rich contralto voice was heard by cinema-goers on the soundtracks of such films as The Proud Valley , The Last Days of Dolwyn , and How Green Was My Valley . |
| 21 | On Dec. 16 the Supreme Soviet passed a law declaring Kazakhstan 's independence , which was recognized by Russia on the following day . |
| 22 | The new " republic " was recognized by Serbia on the following day . |
| 23 | Its authorisation was suspended on 23 April and was placed in liquidation on 30 April . |
| 24 | As you know your child was placed in care on |
| 25 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 26 | The Montgomery ( 165 ) sheet in the Welsh Borders was completed by work on the marine Ludlow sequence and overlying fluviatile Přídolí mudstones and sandstones . |
| 27 | The boiler-suit stage was completed in Chorzow on Wednesday , when Bobby Robson 's team made sure of a place in Italy next summer with a goalless draw , their third in six qualifying matches ; having kept a clean sheet in the other three , all won , they are entitled to regard themselves as the most workmanlike team in Europe . |
| 28 | During a provincial tour of the south-west , Koirala 's motorcade was stoned by demonstrators on April 27 and some of his staff were injured . |
| 29 | Also on Feb. 5 the Soviet Foreign Minister , Aleksandr Bessmertnykh , had held talks in Moscow with Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen. Mustafa Tlass , while Yemeni Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdul Aziz al-Dali was received in Moscow on Feb. 7 by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky . |
| 30 | A comparative newcomer , David Sillito , was assigned as navigator on a patrol which was sent to destroy the track near Sidi Barani . |