Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [num] january " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chambre Nationale claims the 0% rate of tax imposed on art works acquired before 1973 by Britain unfairly distorts competition within Europe since frontier controls were abolished on 1 January . |
| 2 | Guidelines were introduced on 1 January 1990 . |
| 3 | Jorge Quintana Silva and another student , Carlos Ortega , were arrested on 4 January 1990 and detained for 10 months before being brought to trial . |
| 4 | Those proceedings were concluded on 19 January 1988 when both were acquitted . |
| 5 | The proceedings against the brothers were concluded on 19 January 1988 when both of them were acquitted . |
| 6 | Rumours of his imminent eclipse were confirmed on 16 January when Hu 's resignation was announced . |
| 7 | For all its inadequacies , when the first pensions were paid on l January 1909 , 490,000 people qualified , a striking testimony to the extent of severe poverty in old age untouched by the Poor Law . |
| 8 | These considerations ensured that the Soviet plan would be rejected by the West , a rejection confirmed once the new American administration under Reagan was installed on 20 January . |
| 9 | Mr Wang , 23 , was sentenced on 26 January , 1991 to four years in prison and one year 's deprivation of political rights for counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement . |
| 10 | It was called ‘ Pieces of Tape ’ , an anthology of broadcasts from the year 1932 which was transmitted on 13 January 1933 . |
| 11 | Counsel 's advice was sought on 20 January 1989 and that advice was submitted to the Director on 10 February 1989 . |
| 12 | Leslie 's first letter to me after our estrangement was written on 23 January 1943 , the day Tripoli fell , and three months to the day after the second Battle of Alamein had begun . |
| 13 | The tenth anniversary of the civil rights movement was celebrated on 1 January 1979 amidst a growing alienation of the minority Catholic population , a rising toll not only of violence but also of poverty and unemployment in the six counties , and an increasingly unbridgeable gulf within the majority Protestant ranks , with the Official Unionists and the so-called Democratic Unionists under the Revd Ian Paisley vying with one another in intransigence and extremism . |
| 14 | He survived his daughter , however , by thirty-four years and , according to the Brackley Register , was buried on 22 January 1771 . |
| 15 | The infirmary for the reception of diseased horses was opened on 1 January 1793 , the first horse being led in by Bracy Clark . |
| 16 | With a later reorganization of services , Carshalton Garage was closed on 28 January 1964 and its buses redistributed between Sutton and Merton garages . |
| 17 | Gamal Abdul Nasser was born on 15 January 1918 in Alexandria , and grew p in the political turmoil of Egypt between the two world wars . |
| 18 | Puck was born on 3 January 1923 . |
| 19 | I was born on 2 January 1893 , the third son of Frederick Louis Wilder , F.C.S. , M.I.M.M. , who , at the time , was an assayer in the City . |
| 20 | An agreement was reached on 5 January 1925 between Croydon Corporation Beddington & Wallington Urban District Council and the South Metropolitan Company for the reconstruction and widening of Stafford Road , Waddon . |
| 21 | The single company PEP , which was introduced on 1 January this year , has also been a success . |
| 22 | The body of George Hall , 35 , a driving instructor , from Milngavie , Glasgow , who was reported missing last October , was found on 5 January at Bothwellbank . |
| 23 | Mr Hall , 35 , of Craigbarnet Road in Milngavie , had been missing since October and his body was found on 5 January . |
| 24 | What was destined to be the last series of operations of the desert war was another of Stirling 's grand concepts , intended to tie in with Montgomery 's attack on Tripoli and beyond into Tunisia which was to start on 15 January 1943 . |
| 25 | In a direct response to the considerable publicity generated by the launch of the Christie 's exhibition , a one-off donation of £200,000 was pledged on 13 January by Ms Vivien Duffield , chairman of the Clore Foundation . |
| 26 | The present Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) is the fifteenth appointed since 1866 He is the head of the National Audit Office ( NAO ) , which was established on 1 January 1984 to replace and continue the work of the former Exchequer and Audit Department ( E & AD ) . |
| 27 | The Catechism was Hughes ' brain-child and was published on 5 January as a penny pamphlet . |
| 28 | Minton 's letter to The Listener was published on 12 January 1950 . |
| 29 | Under the title Crime Knows No Boundaries the report was published on 19 January 1966 , less than a year after the inception of the policy group . |
| 30 | That regulator , James McKinnon , was knighted on 1 January and kicked in the teeth on 15 January . |