Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law . |
| 2 | However , the Interior Minister , Julio Mera Figueroa , insisted at a press conference on March 7 that the decree did not modify the March 1989 decree but merely changed the composition of the National Security Council . |
| 3 | The secretary-general of the KMT , James Soong , said on March 8 that the government had no timetable for unification . |
| 4 | Mr Purves revealed on March 13th that the bank 's property holdings had been revalued in the group 's balance sheet at HK$13.8 billion ( $1.8 billion ) — over twice most analysts ' estimates . |
| 5 | The District judge for Guam ruled on March 26 that the law was " obviously unconstitutional " and suspended its enforcement pending a full hearing on its constitutionality . |
| 6 | Milosevic said on March 16 that the presidency of Yugoslavia had " long since stopped functioning " , and that the country had " entered the final stage of its agony " . |
| 7 | US District Court Judge William Hoeveler announced in Miami on March 14 that the trial on drugs-trafficking charges of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and four co-defendants would begin on Jan. 28 , 1991 . |
| 8 | Finance Secretary Jesus Estanislao announced on March 5 that the board of the IMF had formally approved an economic plan by the Philippines designed to curb inflation and reduce public spending . |
| 9 | It was reported on March 1 that the ICRC had provided a water purification plant for hospitals and vulnerable groups , especially women and children . |
| 10 | The government announced on March 4 that the rupee would become partly convertible . |
| 11 | Alison Pratt , the union 's regional horticultural policy adviser , said the first meeting will be held on March 3 and the second on March 17 , both at Agriculture House , Darlington . |
| 12 | Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 . |
| 13 | Klaus announced on March 22 that the government had decided to cancel Czechoslovakia 's multilateral agreements with the CMEA ( COMECON ) under which the exchange rates between the crown and the currencies of the other CMEA countries were fixed by joint arrangement [ see p. 37334 ] . |
| 14 | In another pre-election development Likud sources announced on March 23 that the party had decided " not to reserve safe slots " in the next Knesset for Finance Minister Itzhak Modai 's faction of the party . |
| 15 | Zhelev maintained on March 9 that the legislation , if approved , could constitute a restriction on political freedoms and an obstacle to Bulgaria 's membership of the Council of Europe and association with the EC . |
| 16 | Mrs Rymer 's contract runs out on March 31 but the council said it will be renewed . |
| 17 | Dos Santos told the opening session of the Angolan People 's Assembly on March 20 that the session would introduce the framework for multiparty democracy . |
| 18 | The ceremony was attended by Portuguese-speaking African leaders and by Portuguese President Mario Soares , who said on arrival on March 21 that the functioning of the democratic process in Cape Verde was " an example for other regions of Africa " . |
| 19 | A spokesman of the left-wing nationalist guerrilla movement Fretílín announced on March 12 that the organization 's second-in-command , Jose da Costa , had escaped from a military hospital in Dili . |
| 20 | The Army announced on Jan. 4 that the security situation throughout the country had been brought under control , with most members of the Securitate police now in detention . |
| 21 | It was reported on Jan. 16 that the government had also requested assistance worth $US130,000,000 from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank . |
| 22 | Romania 's Foreign Ministry had said on Jan. 18 that the organization had " lost its raison d'être " , and that it too favoured its dissolution . |
| 23 | A CPCz spokesman said on Jan. 10 that the party apparatus was to be cut by 80.3 per cent , or 8,488 people . |
| 24 | Syrian radio said on Jan. 17 that the war was " an inevitable result of the reckless action by the Iraqi ruler " . |
| 25 | Making it clear that there could be no question of a ceasefire , Foreign Minister Moumin Bahdon Farah said on Jan. 5 that the FRUD was a foreign invading force , and that it was the government 's duty to continue to defend the unity and sovereignty of the country . |
| 26 | The human rights organization Helsinki Watch announced on Jan. 23 that the conflict had claimed 10,000 lives in Croatia , and that 5,000 people were still unaccounted for . |
| 27 | Identical with the name of its West German counterpart , this had been the party 's name before its merger with the Communists in 1946 , and an SPD executive announced on Jan. 23 that the party 's pre-1946 assets were to be restored to it . |
| 28 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 29 | A Spanish parliamentary commission , which had visited El Salvador in November 1990 to investigate the murder of the Jesuits ( five of whom were Spanish ) , reported in its findings on Jan. 29 that the involvement of the Salvadorean armed forces in the murders was evident , and that others apart from the nine soldiers at present accused also bore responsibility . |
| 30 | The PDC had previously threatened to leave the administration on Jan. 31 if the government was not opened to other political parties , and party officials described the change of stance as a gesture of goodwill in response to continuing negotiations . |