Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 2 | It was reported that on July 8 North Korea had submitted an application ( dated July 2 ) to join the UN . |
| 3 | Foreign correspondents in Beijing also reported that on April 1 , relatives of Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming had petitioned the ongoing session of the National People 's Congress . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it was officially reported that on Aug. 17 three Croatian police helicopters which had been dispatched to Gracac , a town near Knin where Serbs had taken over the police station and were distributing arms , had been intercepted en route by two Yugoslav air force jets and forced back to base . |
| 5 | It was reported that on Aug. 10 Moroccan officials had refused to allow the UN official in charge of the ceasefire and referendum arrangements , Johannes Manz , to enter the territory . |
| 6 | Algerian radio reported that on Jan. 16 Ait Ahmed had met with two FIS leaders , Abdelkader al-Hachani ( described as chairman of the FIS provisional executive bureau ) and Mohammed Said , at the offices of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights . |
| 7 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 8 | Tuesday night 's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill . |
| 9 | Then a second CIS trainer backed Alexeyev 's version , but on Thursday Russian Olympic chief Vitaly Smirnov disagreed and on Friday Kurlovich himself hit back savagely at the accusation . |
| 10 | No I do n't know but on Saturday it 's gon na be all like li little couples . |
| 11 | Would it be sensible for us to agree that on Monday of next week , we finalise , authorise and reissue procedures , that we discuss whatever Simon 's put to us now , and give feed back so that you can actually take the final documents next week and that Rita and Stella you take |
| 12 | Three days later the ICJ announced that on March 26 it would open hearings on Libya 's application concerning the interpretation by the USA and the UK of the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation . |
| 13 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 14 | Chad announced that on Oct. 30 , 1989 , its troops had killed at least 600 members of the so-called Libyan Islamic Legion and had destroyed an important military base belonging to that force on the Sudan-Chad border . |
| 15 | The EPLF also announced that on Sept. 12 it had agreed to merge its forces with those of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement ( EPRDM ) . |
| 16 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 17 | The paper says that on September 22 , IBM will give a more specific delivery timeframe for the AIX database and that it will become the common database for both environments . |
| 18 | MCI Communications Corp says that on April 1 , it intends to call for redemption $148m of its 10% subordinated debentures due April 1 2011 , at 108% of the principal amount . |
| 19 | Clarkson says that on August 19 , the opening day of this season , he , his wife and two mates arrived at Highfield Road at 2.15pm with £9.50 stand tickets for the Coventry v Everton game , kick-off 3pm . |
| 20 | I said I must watch that on Monday night , I like the wildlife programmes . |
| 21 | You 've seen that on South Ronaldsay you know . |
| 22 | They smeared grease or paint to prevent the MLs ' bridge windows glinting and on Campbeltown the commandos mounted their two 3-inch ( 76mm ) mortars forward of the gun and the last rehearsal was held . |
| 23 | On March 5 a night-time curfew was imposed and on March 19 the country 's sole post-liberation newspaper , February 26 , was suspended after publishing articles critical of the government . |
| 24 | Modrow 's offer was not immediately accepted but on Jan. 28 , after seven hours of talks , Modrow and opposition groups reached agreement on the formation of a government of national responsibility in which eight opposition leaders would enter the Cabinet as ministers without portfolio . |
| 25 | The proposal was widely criticized and on Nov. 19 a Miami District Court judge granted a temporary injunction forbidding further repatriations after an appeal from the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami . |
| 26 | Buildings occupied by the PSP and by the Shiite militia Amal were also repossessed and on July 27 Hezbollah began evacuating its largest base in Lebanon — the Sheikh Abdullah Barracks in Bekaa , 70 km east of Beirut . |
| 27 | I might just go and see that on Saturday |
| 28 | Reports stated that on July 3 , 1988 , Spence had arranged a late night tour of the White House for six people , including two male prostitutes . |
| 29 | Commons sources confirmed that on Thursday Mrs Thatcher stood at the despatch box with a television monitor nearby to see how she appeared on television in the chamber . |
| 30 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |