Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
| 2 | a sheet which has been printed on one side only and then folded with two right angle folds to form a four page uncut section . |
| 3 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 4 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , life membership of the Irish Ladies Hockey Union has been conferred on two Ulster women , Professor Florence McKeown and Sheila Hennessy . |
| 6 | MONEY to improve Darlington 's council housing has been concentrated on one part of the town at the expense of other areas , Liberal Democrats claimed . |
| 7 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 8 | Fate has dealt harshly with W. She is now aged 16 , having been born on 31 March 1976 . |
| 9 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. J. is 16 months old , having been born on 22 January 1991 . |
| 10 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 11 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 12 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 13 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |
| 14 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 15 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 16 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 17 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 18 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 20 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 21 | On April 13 a similar raid had been conducted on six soda ash producers in the UK , the Netherlands , France and West Germany . |
| 22 | The first amphibious raid — three officers landing between Boulogne and Etaples — had been mounted on 2–3 June by MIR with informal contacts in the Royal Navy , who provided a trawler . |
| 23 | The election results had been announced on 6 March . |
| 24 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 25 | Laporte ( speciality chemicals ) has incorporated a restated group p&l account plus notes in its interim report for the six months ended 3 July 1992 , on the basis that the Interox restructuring had been completed on 1 January 1992 . |
| 26 | More recently , the disease had been confirmed on eight sheep premises , believed not to have imported recently . |
| 27 | To add a bit of spice to the proceedings a sketchy transition had been tacked on one end of the ramp and that was the main focus of attention , especially in the grown-ups group . |
| 28 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 29 | Rufus had been killed on 2 August , whether by conspiracy or accident will never be resolved . |
| 30 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |