Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] on sept. " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wang , aged 72 , had been placed in detention on Sept. 8 , 1989 , as part of the nationwide security crackdown in the aftermath of the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 2 | Three British and Irish consignments had been attacked near Cherbourg on Sept. 21 in protest against meat imports . |
| 3 | On the first day of his visit he and Chancellor Kohl signed a 20-year Treaty on Good-neighbourliness , Partnership and Co-operation , which had been initialled in Moscow on Sept. 13 [ see p. 37718 ; for text see p. 37835 ] and which , Kohl said , " rules off the painful chapters of our past and clears the way for a new beginning " . |
| 4 | The extradition from Switzerland of Antonio De Luca , who had been arrested in Basel on Sept. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36433 ] , was approved in mid-February 1990 . |
| 5 | The final " two-plus-four " meeting was to be held in Moscow on Sept. 12 and would produce a formulation for a unification agreement including the termination of " four-power " rights in Germany prior to the first all-German elections , scheduled for Dec. 2 , 1990 . |
| 6 | The GCC foreign ministers were joined in Doha on Sept. 9 by their Syrian and Egyptian counterparts for the sixth meeting of the Damascus Declaration states [ see pp. 38116-17 ; 38885 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The measures were approved in parliament on Sept. 28 by a majority of one vote . |
| 9 | Diplomatic relations were restored with Iran on Sept. 24 [ for details see p. 37729 ] . |
| 10 | Full diplomatic relations were restored with Tunisia on Sept. 24 [ see p. 37729 ] , with the UK on Sept. 27 [ see p. 37727 ] , and with Mauritania on Oct. 5 ; improved relations with Kuwait were signalled by a visit to Kuwait in early July by Foreign Affairs Minister Vellayati [ for details of restoration in October 1988 of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level see p. 36951 ] . |
| 11 | Twenty-nine people including members of the Camorra ( Neapolitan Mafia ) and of the dominant Corleonese clan of the Sicilian Mafia were arrested in Italy on Sept. 28 as part of a massive international drugs operation aimed at the Colombian drug cartels and the US and Italian Mafia . |
| 12 | A number of military commanders from the southern , central and northern regions were appointed as ministers on Sept. 24 . |
| 13 | Agreements with the United Kingdom covering anti-terrorist measures first reported in January [ see p. 38727 ] , including using the sanction of confiscating assets , were signed in London on Sept. 22 . |
| 14 | Reprisal expulsions were ordered by Iraq on Sept. 21 , together with expulsions of US and Egyptian diplomatic personnel , both these countries themselves reciprocating by the end of the month . |
| 15 | Diplomatic relations were established with Cuba on Sept. 28 , with Indonesia and Japan on Oct. 12 and with the United Arab Emirates on Oct. 15 . |
| 16 | During the year to mid-1991 by-elections were held in Knowsley on Sept. 27 , 1990 ( held by Labour with an increased percentage over the Conservatives ) ; in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 , ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 37784 ) ; in Bootle and Bradford on Nov. 8 , and in Paisley North and Paisley South on Nov. 29 ( when Labour retained all four seats ; in the Scottish constituencies the SNP advanced from fourth to second ) ; in Ribble Valley on March 7 , 1991 ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 38110 ) ; in Neath on April 4 ( when Labour retained the seat despite a large swing to Plaid Cymru — see p. 38200 ) ; in Monmouth on May 16 ( when Labour won the seat from the exports — $2,500 ) ; and in Liverpool Walton on July 4 ( when Labour retained the seat and the Conservatives came fourth — see p. 38355 ) . |
| 17 | The 45th annual joint meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were held in Washington on Sept. 25-27 . |
| 18 | Groups of primary elections were held in Nigeria on Sept. 12 , 19 and 26 , and were contested by candidates seeking the presidential nominations of the country 's two military-backed political parties — the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) and the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) . |
| 19 | Further talks on economic co-operation and trade expansion were held in Bangkok on Sept. 17 between the new Vietnamese Minister of Commerce , Le Van Triet , and Thai leaders . |
| 20 | The 16th round of US-Soviet Nuclear and Space Talks ( NST ) [ see pp. 37223 ; 38255 ] were held in Geneva on Sept. 30-Oct. 24 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , who resigned in protest against the coup on Aug. 20 , was reappointed by Gorbachev on Sept. 7 . |
| 23 | A curfew was imposed in Ayacucho on Sept. 20 . |
| 24 | The resignation of Silayev as RSFSR Prime Minister was accepted by Yeltsin on Sept. 27 . |
| 25 | Helmut Voigt , a former officer of the East German state security police ( Stasi ) , was sentenced in Athens on Sept. 10 to 10 months ' imprisonment for entering the country on a false passport . |
| 26 | The budget for 1992 was presented to parliament on Sept. 30 . |
| 27 | Diplomatic negotiations to end the hostage crisis , launched in August by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar [ see p. 38405 ] , achieved some successes with the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) releasing 51 Arab prisoners on Sept. 11 ; the body of a kidnapped Israeli serviceman was returned on the same day , and British hostage Jackie Mann was freed in Beirut on Sept. 24 . |
| 28 | The Bazin government 's Foreign Minister , Francois Benoit , was invited to Washington on Sept. 1-4 to participate in OAS-mediated talks with Aristide 's representative , Fr Antoine Adrien [ for August OAS initiative see p. 39046 ] . |
| 29 | The report was also highly critical of the LTTE for the summary killing of Sinhalese , of Moslems and of Tamils suspected of " treason " , and for the massacre of a large number of police taken prisoner in June 1990 [ see pp. 37529-30 ] ; a mass grave containing the corpses of 35 police was found near Batticaloa on Sept. 9 , the third such discovery in recent weeks . |
| 30 | The EC and Japan on July 18 each proposed separate formulas for the reduction of tariffs across the board ; a new broad and systematic approach was proposed by Canada on Sept. 27 . |