Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government forces delivered a critical blow to the rebels on March 7 when the Defence Ministry 's communication links were severed . |
| 2 | WI news : The next meeting will be held on March 26 when the subject will be vegetarian cookery . |
| 3 | WI news : The next meeting will be held on March 26 when the subject will be vegetarian cookery . |
| 4 | The WI met on March 26 when the subject was vegetarian cookery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The round table held its 16th and final session on March 12 when a draft constitution was discussed . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Six soldiers were slightly injured on Aug. 15 when a grenade exploded near Nuoro in Sardinia . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | There had been several less serious explosions in or near Addis Ababa since the EPRDF takeover ; a number of residents of the Shagolle suburb had been killed on May 28 when a shell hit a munitions plant , and five people , including two EPRDF guards , were killed by gunmen at Addis Ababa University on May 31 . |
| 21 | The government 's position was strengthened further on May 21 when the King formally delegated the legislative powers of the Rashtriya Panchayat ( the Nepali parliament which had been dissolved in mid-April ) to the Bhattarai Cabinet . |
| 22 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 23 | The longest and costliest criminal case in US history ended on July 27 when the prosecution dropped child molestation charges against Raymond Buckey after the jury had declared itself unable to arrive at a majority verdict . |
| 24 | On July 2 a strike broke out at the Markushegy unit of the Oroszlany coalmines , when miners demanded a wage rise of up to 50 per cent , the dismissal of incompetent managers and a halt to privatization of the mines ; the strike was settled on July 3 when the government acceded to most of the demands . |
| 25 | Paolo Borsellino , the chief public prosecutor in the Sicilian city of Palermo , was killed on July 19 when a car bomb was detonated by remote control in a Palermo street . |
| 26 | The biggest threat will be on October 22 when the Queen visits Dresden , a hotbed of neo-Nazism . |
| 27 | Police raided the premises on October 23 when the flat was unoccupied . |
| 28 | The US Senate also approved the treaty on Oct. 10 when a motion was passed that the ratification should not be construed as tacit US acceptance of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 29 | The protests followed an incident on Oct. 30 when a bomb from a US F18 fighter aircraft was accidentally dropped on the USS Reeves , sailing off Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago . |
| 30 | The debt-burdened Australian banking system received a further serious setback on Feb. 10 when the State Bank of South Australia ( SBSA ) announced a loss of nearly A$1,000 million ( US$781 million ) , and warned that its bad debts could be as high as A$2,500 million , 20 per cent of its loan exposure . |