Example sentences of "[verb] on the [det] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radio Venceremos , the FMLN 's broadcasting station , claimed on the same day that the armed forces had sustained 475 dead and 1,395 wounded . |
| 2 | The Press Trust of India news agency reported on the same day that the two sides had agreed to finalize arrangements for reopening consulates-general in Bombay and Shanghai . |
| 3 | The US press reported on the same day that the two men whose extradition was being sought , Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , had met for two days , earlier in May , with a leading Washington criminal defence attorney , Plato Cacheris . |
| 4 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
| 5 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 6 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont reiterated on the same day that the UK government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain the existing DM2.95 central parity of the pound . |
| 7 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 8 | My next point is on a relatively minor announcement that was made on the same day that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the changes in benefits and contributions . |
| 9 | However , it had welcomed the announcement made on the same day that two other Soviet radar stations , also seen by the USA to violate the ABM treaty , were to be dismantled . |
| 10 | Sadly , it was broadcast on the same day that this remarkable man died … |
| 11 | He said in a Radio France Internationale interview broadcast on the same day that he had won 62.7 per cent of votes in the March 1989 presidential elections and that his opponents were a minority . |
| 12 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 13 | If possible eat on the same day that you buy them . |
| 14 | Nicaragua retaliated on Dec. 30 by ordering 20 US diplomats to leave the country forthwith , and US President George Bush admitted on the same day that the action was a " screw-up " . |
| 15 | It was announced on the same day that " political committees " had been formed in the Occupied Territories . |
| 16 | It was also announced on the same day that the Greek government was to replace Vasso Papandreou as the Commissioner responsible for social affairs and employment , education and training , and human resources by Greek Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly Antrim will be relying on the same side that finished that day . |
| 18 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 19 | The FRY recognized the independence of Slovenia on Aug. 13 , but the Slovene President Milan Kucan said on the same day that this recognition meant nothing " until the FRY itself obtains international recognition " [ for wide international recognition of Slovenia in January 1992 , see p. 38703 ] . |
| 20 | The company 's profits , just over nineteen million , come on the same day that Rover announced a forty nine million pounds loss over the same period . |
| 21 | Pérez de Cuéllar , in turn , maintained on the same occasion that he was " very encouraged , because it is a further step " . |
| 22 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 23 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |