Example sentences of "was [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | TROY was sentenced to death on his 16th birthday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 1990 budget was presented to parliament on Nov. 17 , 1989 , by then Finance Minister Said Ahmed Said Ali . |
| 6 | The budget for the fiscal year ending on March 31 , 1991 , was presented to parliament on Feb. 20 , 1990 [ see p. 37415 ] . |
| 7 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | He was listening to electro-funk on the car stereo . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A young jogger who was stabbed to death on his way home was killed with a knuckle-duster shaped like a knife . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A MAN seriously ill in hospital was stabbed to death on a general medical ward . |
| 16 | The last recorded batch , of three female monkeys from Woburn , was sold to Shamrock on December 4 , 1990 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
| 19 | I said I was going to tech on a night for my maths A level and I was also taking General and English . |
| 20 | He 's believed to be the first person convicted of the new charge of causing death by dangerous driving , which was introduced to crackdown on joyriding . |
| 21 | ALMOST exactly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canaries and St Lucia , the radio net for the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers was brought to life on 10 December with a dramatic mayday from the one-off Chaot owned by Manfred Boschmann . |
| 22 | He was rushed to hospital on the day of the crash with his wife Ethel and young granddaughter , both passengers in the car , was released later the same day after receiving three stitches to a head wound . |
| 23 | Marcos ruled the Philippines for 20 years before Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 24 | The issue has divided the country more than any since Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 25 | Twelve years later , the new Socialist Party founded by Mr Mitterrand on the ruins of the old , was swept to victory on the crest of a tidal wave . |
| 26 | The ban was backdated to midnight on Monday . |
| 27 | A bill effectively legalizing euthanasia was submitted to parliament on Nov. 8 . |
| 28 | Mr Kelsey , who is thought to be in his forties , was taken to hospital on Tuesday night with stab wounds to his chest and neck following an incident in Rosebank , Dovercourt . |
| 29 | He was taken to hospital on July 29 with bullet wounds to the chest , apparently the result of a suicide attempt . |
| 30 | She was admitted to hospital on 21 January because of a productive cough and mild dyspnoea which had appeared four days earlier . |