Example sentences of "on [noun] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser . |
| 2 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 3 | The Student Health Centre at Coleraine is on Level 1 in the Tower Building and is staffed by a receptionist , an experienced nursing sister and male and female doctors . |
| 4 | The acquisition of two small , purpose-built , exhibition cases , allowing the display of larger sheet maps , has permitted Map Library staff to present monthly exhibitions on Level 4 of the Causewayside Building . |
| 5 | The Student Health Service at Coleraine is situated in the Student Services Department on Level One of the Tower . |
| 6 | The Student Health Service at Coleraine is situated in the Student Services Department on Level One of the Tower . |
| 7 | Aircraft belonging to Air Europe , the British scheduled airline which carried over 3,500,000 passengers in 1990 , were grounded on March 8 following the collapse of its parent company , International Leisure Group , which had lost £5,000,000 between November 1990 and the end of January 1991 . |
| 8 | Harris research director Robert Waller may not care to be reminded of a quote attributed to him in The Independent on Sunday on March 8 at the start of the campaign : ‘ Oh yes , it 's exciting . |
| 9 | The beleaguered government of Kiichi Miyazawa , beset by scandals , economic recession and falling levels of popularity , suffered a further blow on March 8 with the loss of the Miyagi prefecture by-election . |
| 10 | On March 17 at a meeting with senators involved in the drafting of the 1992 Foreign Aid Bill , US President George Bush announced his rejection of a compromise formula on the loan guarantees issue . |
| 11 | The navy did acknowledge , however , having returned fire on March 17 at a boat off Point Pedro which , it said , had then exploded — the implication being that it had contained rebel ammunition or explosive supplies . |
| 12 | A preliminary peace accord was reportedly reached on March 26 between the regime which had taken power in Surinam following the December 1990 military coup [ see pp. 37912-13 ] and the guerrilla Surinamese Liberation Army ( SLA ) led by Ronnie Brunswijk . |
| 13 | Kurt Nielsen , who died in Aalborg , Denmark on March 26 at the age of 79 , was responsible for giving cricket in Denmark the injection necessary to raise it from mediocrity to a worthy associate member of the International Cricket Council . |
| 14 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 15 | He was boosted on March 26 with the endorsement of Harkin . |
| 16 | Clashes took place over three nights in the Paris suburb of Sartrouville , which had a large immigrant population , after an 18-year-old North African , Djemel Chitou , was shot dead on March 26 by a supermarket security guard , himself a North African . |
| 17 | Eleven black protesters were killed on March 26 in the township of Sebokeng , near Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd seeking to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party . |
| 18 | In support of Jovic 's resignation Jugoslav Kostic , the representative of the other autonomous Serbian province , Vojvodina , announced his withdrawal from the Collective State Presidency on March 16 on the grounds that he no longer recognised its authority . |
| 19 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |
| 20 | The appeals of Wang Juntao , Chen Zeming and Ren Wanding , three intellectuals sentenced earlier in connection with the June 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations [ see also p. 38008 ] , were dismissed on March 18 by the Beijing People 's Higher Court . |
| 21 | President Jaime Paz Zamora restructured his Cabinet on March 18 in an effort to boost the flagging fortunes of his ruling Patriotic Accord ( AP ) , which faced internal divisions and a wave of labour and student protests against its neo-liberal economic policies . |
| 22 | The major achievement of a meeting in Moscow on March 13 of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) was the agreement on repayment of the foreign debt of the former Soviet Union , made possible by a Ukrainian change of policy . |
| 23 | Following the extraordinary congress on March 7-10 of the PCI [ see pp. 37330-31 ] , the secretary of the PSI , Bettino Craxi , indicated that the PSI would consider the possibility of working , at some future date , with a reformed and renamed PCI in the interests of establishing a new socialist unity which could provide an alternative potential government alliance . |
| 24 | The newly elected chairman of the Law Society of Kenya , Paul Muite , who had been vilified in the pro-government media since he called on March 10 for the NDP 's legalization , was on May 15 alleged by a pro-government lawyer , Kokonya Mkolongolo , to be using Odinga as a front for his own political ambitions . |
| 25 | The newly elected chairman of the Law Society of Kenya , Paul Muite , called in his inaugural address on March 10 for the legalization of Odinga 's party , for political pluralism and for the release of three political prisoners . |
| 26 | Although Janata Dal failed to gain a majority , it formed a government on March 10 with the support of smaller parties and independents . |
| 27 | But he was not expecting the economy and the Government 's finances to be in a much worse state than that set out on March 10 in the Chancellor 's Budget report . |
| 28 | The proclamation of Lithuania 's independence took place late on March 11 as a result of voting in what was now to be known as the Supreme Council ( Taryba ; the Russian word soviet , literally meaning " council " , was dropped ) . |
| 29 | After a 14-month trial , Udo Proksch , the owner of Vienna 's most famous coffee house and a former confidant of some of the country 's leading politicians , was found guilty on March 11 of the murder of six crew members of the cargo ship Lucona , which blew up off the Maldives in January 1977 . |
| 30 | Foreign Affairs Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab led a 32-member delegation to talks in Cape Town , South Africa , on March 14 with a South African delegation headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Roelof ( " Pik " ) Botha on the issue of the South African Walvis Bay enclave and the offshore Penguin Island group . |