Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [art] orders " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor , but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health . |
| 2 | When Richard was a young man there was reckoned to be a tournament about once a fortnight on the Continent ; in England they were prohibited on the orders of Henry II . |
| 3 | The bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge , who had disregarded the opposition of representatives of known right-wing paramilitary groups while hearing an appeal by human rights groups . |
| 4 | General Abakumov , by bitter irony himself a Jew , was shot on the orders of his rival , Lavrenti Beria , in 1951 . |
| 5 | The griffon statue was fashioned on the orders of Magnus the Pious after his accession , and is the emblem of his dynasty . |
| 6 | The Kit was scuttled on the orders of the Soviet nuclear agency , in the 1960s , after use as a floating laboratory for testing radiation protection equipment . |