Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paths shown are those of the 7 rats in group fixed ( b ) and the 7 in group varied ( c ) on trial 85 when the landmark positions in the arena happened to be identical for the two groups . |
| 2 | Government forces delivered a critical blow to the rebels on March 7 when the Defence Ministry 's communication links were severed . |
| 3 | The Security Council , created in the December 1990 leadership restructuring , was constituted on March 7 when the USSR Supreme Soviet approved eight nominations by President Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 4 | WI news : The next meeting will be held on March 26 when the subject will be vegetarian cookery . |
| 5 | WI news : The next meeting will be held on March 26 when the subject will be vegetarian cookery . |
| 6 | The WI met on March 26 when the subject was vegetarian cookery . |
| 7 | The crash happened on March 14 when the helicopter went down while transporting 15 men from Shell 's Cormorant Alpha platform to an accommodation barge . |
| 8 | The round table held its 16th and final session on March 12 when a draft constitution was discussed . |
| 9 | Although some 4,200 residency permits were accordingly made available , it was reported that 30,000-40,000 such immigrants gathered at a greyhound stadium on March 29 where the applications were to be processed . |
| 10 | The crackdown started on Jan. 7 when the USSR Defence Ministry ordered divisions of paratroopers into the three Baltic republics , as well as into Armenia , Georgia , Moldavia and parts of the Ukraine , to enforce conscription and round up deserters . |
| 11 | The first clear evidence that the unrest in Kashmir had adversely affected bilateral relations came on Jan. 14 when a spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office expressed " deep concern over the deteriorating situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir " . |
| 12 | A new National Council of Ministers was sworn in on Jan. 13 ; its predecessor had been dissolved on Jan. 3 following a decision to reduce the number of ministries from 25 to 16 as part of a rationalization of the civil service . |
| 13 | Roque Fernandez was named as the new President of the Central Bank , replacing Javier González Fraga who had resigned on Jan. 28 when the austral dropped dramatically against the US dollar [ see p. 37959 ] . |
| 14 | On Aug. 9 both the German and the Soviet governments condemned Turkey 's " violation of international law " in entering Iraqi territory . |
| 15 | The trouble began on Aug. 19 when a car from the motorcade of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the leader of the Orthodox Jewish Lubavitcher sect — ran through a red traffic-light , went out of control and mounted the pavement . |
| 16 | Six soldiers were slightly injured on Aug. 15 when a grenade exploded near Nuoro in Sardinia . |
| 17 | I was on watch as quartermaster on the forenoon watch on February 6 when the officer of the watch asked why HMS Glasgow and HMS Liverpool were flying the flag at half mast . |
| 18 | But Ken Threlfall , general manager of the county ambulance service , said a duty on-call system , which involves staff responding from home , was in operation on December 22 when the accident took place . |
| 19 | An agreement to increase contacts aimed at resolving the financial dispute between Iran and France [ see p. 37929 ] was confirmed on Sept. 27 following a meeting in New York between Vellayati and his French counterpart , Roland Dumas . |
| 20 | The resumption of trade with Ukraine , suspended since March 1 [ see p. 38828 ] in a dispute over the price of Turkmen gas , was announced on Sept. 26 following a meeting between Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Konstyantin Masik and Turkmenistan 's President Saparmurad Niyazov ; Ukrainian radio reported that Ukraine would pay transport costs for the gas in addition to the price of 3,000 roubles per cubic metre . |
| 21 | A three-week strike by 11 teacher unions had ended on Sept. 20 when the government reached a settlement with nine of the unions whereby it would pay immediately the equivalent of US$1,600,000 in back salaries from 1987 and the remaining US$4,400,000 in the next fiscal year . |
| 22 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 23 | Joint communiqués were signed on the establishment of diplomatic relations ( i ) with China on Sept. 30 following a visit to Beijing by a Brunei delegation on Sept. 8-11 ; and ( ii ) with the Soviet Union on Oct. 1 in New York . |
| 24 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
| 25 | A report by Helmut Schlesinger made public on Sept. 30 indicated that the greater part of the DM44,000 million of " compulsory DM sales " by the Bundesbank in the week when the pound and the lira withdrew from the ERM had been in support of sterling ( this figure apparently excluding operations conducted on Sept. 22-23 when the franc was under particular pressure — see below ) . |
| 26 | The SNC agreed to meet again in New York on Sept. 21 when an SNC delegation would attend the 46th UN General Assembly . |
| 27 | I suppose for Australia it all started on Nov 2 when the Queen gave Nick Farr-Jones the World Cup at Twickenham , and rugby union 's Holy Grail thus passed into Australia 's hands … |
| 28 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |
| 29 | One British Army soldier was killed and another was seriously injured on May 16 when an IRA bomb exploded under an Army van at an Army careers information office in Wembley , London . |
| 30 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |