Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [num] charges " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric and Marie Hanby , aged 60 and 61 , were acquitted on 11 charges of cruelly ill-treating children over a 24-year period , 1967–1991 . |
| 2 | In May 1988 , Lynch , a high profile campaigner for gay rights , was indicted on five charges of child abuse in New York City . |
| 3 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 4 | Although Diro continued to cling to office , by mid-1991 his position looked increasingly untenable ; in September he was convicted on 81 charges of corruption , and he resigned in October [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |
| 5 | Buckey was retried on eight charges , although the proceedings lasted less than 12 weeks and involved 40 rather than the 124 original witnesses . |