Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 2 | Benjamin 's shoulders twitched and on one occasion I saw him shiver . |
| 3 | Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that |
| 4 | Peter Bourne reveals that on 16 October 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos ( who disappeared in a still unexplained air accident only ten days later ) was interviewed at the Havana Riviera Hotel by Alexander Alekseev , a KGB official who quickly developed an excellent rapport with Castro and played an extremely important role in the development of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Does the Secretary of State for Scotland remember that on 16 March , in an interview published in The Press and Journal ( Aberdeen ) , he said that the option for trust status existed if the local will were in favour ? |
| 6 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 7 | The intensification of the war increased when on 10 June 1940 , Mussolini , making one of his last balcony performances , declared war , so that my newly-projected book on Italy seemed of immediate relevance , though whether I should complete it was another matter . |
| 8 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 10 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 11 | The court heard that on 10 April last year , with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group , the two men started a blaze which caused an explosion and destroyed the house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 12 | His friend recovered and on 1 January this year Mr Shiratori stood down as CEO . |
| 13 | But the Maronites persisted and on 1 September 1920 , Gouraud , the newly-installed French high commissioner , proclaimed from his Beirut residence ‘ the state of Greater Lebanon ’ . |
| 14 | His first wife died and on 24 January 1868 he married Elizabeth , daughter of the Revd John E. Scroope Hutchinson , vicar of East Stoke , Nottinghamshire . |
| 15 | He received visits in the asylum , and Boswell reports that on one occasion , probably in 1760 , Dr Johnson thought Smart ought to be locked up ; his opinion varied , as no doubt did Smart 's condition , from time to time . |
| 16 | The respondents appealed and on 4 October 1991 the Court of Appeal ( Richardson , Hardie Boys and Gault JJ. ) reversing Robertson J. , held that a binding compromise had been concluded . |
| 17 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 18 | On 2 May German forces in northern Italy surrendered and on 7 May Gen Jodl surrendered the main German forces in central Europe to Eisenhower at his headquarters ( SHAEF ) at Rheims , to take effect at midnight on 8 May . |
| 19 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 20 | The inquest heard that on 30 August , 1988 , the security forces had become aware of a threat to the life of a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier , and the shoot-out had been a result of the actions taken by the security forces because of the threat . |
| 21 | To this petition Gloucester agreed and on 26 June , in a ceremony consciously modelled on his brother 's accession , he took his seat at Westminster and began his reign . |
| 22 | To this petition Gloucester agreed and on 26 June , in a ceremony consciously modelled on his brother 's accession , he took his seat at Westminster and began his reign . |
| 23 | A handwritten memo in the Public Record Office says that on 30 October Mayne was ordered to leave the railway alone and concentrate on destroying petrol supplies . |