Example sentences of "on [noun prp] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |
| 2 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council said late on Friday that an Israeli decision on 1 February that 101 of the deportees could return immediately and the remainder before the end of the year had been a step in the right direction . |
| 4 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , announced on Friday that the beleaguered company would have to write off £185m . |
| 5 | It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said on Friday that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ . |
| 6 | The Chancellor , Norman Lamont , told the Commons on Tuesday that the current zero rating would be swept aside from April next year , when domestic fuel and power would be subject to 8 per cent VAT , with the full 17.5 per cent applied from April 1995 . |
| 7 | It dawned on Loretta that the latter half of Bridget 's remark had been to do with Puddephat 's taste in footwear , not the object she was holding . |
| 8 | It was confirmed on Monday that the former army officer had attempted suicide for a third time . |
| 9 | State Department officials denied on Monday that the Iranian funds issue and that of the hostages held in Lebanon were linked . |
| 10 | The leaked disclosure on Monday that the National Security Adviser , Mr Brent Scowcroft , and the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , met Chinese leaders in Beijing last July , only a month after the Tiananmen Square massacre , has compounded the furore over this month 's furtive Beijing foray by the two men . |
| 11 | It emerged on Sunday that the Foreign Office had given Libya a list of detailed assurances covering the conditions in which the two men would be held in Scotland while awaiting trial . |
| 12 | But there was some evidence from the launch of the Mail on Sunday that the missing readers could be lured back by new papers . |
| 13 | Mr Singh repeated a statement he made in parliament on Wednesday that a Pakistani failure to hand over the Memons would have serious implications . |
| 14 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |