Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [num] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 2 | Now to be fair , the dilemma was there as the whole soft crust thing got going on 10 November 1989 , when the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a prop of plausibility to the caring-Nineties mediaschlock , and to Rifat Ozbek 's baggy Kleenex-vagabond numbers . |
| 3 | This new system , now known as the Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) , began to operate on 1 April 1990 , and is planned to be completely in operation by April 1993 . |
| 4 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 5 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 6 | Had it been the director with a retained shareholding of 30 shares who had died on 31 December 1986 , his estate too would have had the benefit of business assets relief , but at a lower percentage deduction . |
| 7 | Of course , and as we might expect , despite alterations made to the weir and hatches in the river below the town , another tremendous flood had arrived on 9 November 1800 . |
| 8 | A State Department working party had concluded on 1 February 1950 that the US , together with France , was already committed in Indo-China , i.e. , failure of the Bao Dai experiment would mean the communisation of Indo-China . |
| 9 | The machine had been supplied on 7 July 1955 and the accident had happened on 9 August 1956 , but the manufacturers were not convened in the action until 25 March 1959 . |
| 10 | That reconciliation was not Franco 's guiding principle was clear from the decree he had issued on 1 April 1939 ( the same day he had signed the final war bulletin ) , ordering that a monument be built " to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Crusade of Liberation " and to honour " those who gave their lives for God and the Fatherland " . |
| 11 | They waited to gauge the effect of unrestricted U-boat warfare , which had commenced on 1 February 1917 in the hope of starving the British into submission . |
| 12 | As to political issues : the Foreign Secretary had stated on 24 June 1991 that the aim at the Intergovernmental Conferences would be to conclude negotiations at Maastricht in December . |
| 13 | The majority of financial years specified ended on 31 March 1991 . |
| 14 | The majority of financial years specified ended on 31 March 1991 . |
| 15 | Mr Rampton asked Lord Aldington why he had ordered on 17 May 1945 that the Yugoslavs not be told where they were going , and whether they had been falsely told they were going to Italy . |