Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives are appealing for witnesses to the attack to ring Hemlington CID on Middlesbrough 590323 or North Ormesby CID on Middlesbrough 301835 . |
| 2 | An appeal is being launched and anyone who can help should contact Carol Chambers on Middlesbrough 225158 or Shirley Heselton on 0287–642361 . |
| 3 | A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman indicated on March 7 that China had resumed supplies of arms to the Khmers Rouges . |
| 4 | Foreign correspondents in Beijing reported on March 7 that lawyers defending Wang Juntao had abandoned his appeal under official pressure , leaving his wife to conduct his defence alone . |
| 5 | The state-owned Voix du Zaïre radio announced on March 7 that Mobutu had signed an order instituting a constitutional conference following his meeting at N'Sele , a suburb of the capital Kinshasa , on Feb. 26 with representatives of 53 of Zaïre 's 66 political parties . |
| 6 | An official of the Lithuanian Supreme Council claimed on March 18 that Antas Petrauskas Lithuania 's Soviet-appointed state procurator [ see p. 37361 ] , had been seeking to pursue an investigation against Butkevicius on charges of illegal weapons ' possession . |
| 7 | This followed an announcement by President Borja Cevallos of Ecuador on March 18 that Pinochet 's current presence in that country was " not welcome " . |
| 8 | The move provoked anger in Russia , and confusion ensued as Yeltsin told the Russian Supreme Soviet on March 18 that Kravchuk had reversed his decision and that the original deadline of July 1 would be observed ; NATO officials claimed that identical assurances had been given by Ukraine . |
| 9 | Humphrey Nwosu , chairman of the National Electoral Commission , announced on March 18 that elections to the National Assembly were being brought forward from Nov. 7 and would take place on July 4 . |
| 10 | The opposition Social Democratic Party ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) made significant gains in local elections in the states of Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein on March 18 and March 25 respectively . |
| 11 | State election dates : The Communist-led governments of West Bengal and Kerala on March 18 and March 21 respectively approved decisions to hold elections in May simultaneously with those to the Lok Sabha , and the West Bengal State Assembly was dissolved on March 31 . |
| 12 | Following municipal elections in Bavaria on March 18 and April 1 , 1990 , in which the CSU lost votes to the SPD across the state , the SPD mayor of Munich , Georg Kronawitter , reached agreement on an alliance with the Greens at the end of April . |
| 13 | The national television and radio stations reported on March 13 that lawyers all over the country were demanding Muite 's resignation , and articles in three national newspapers accused him of maligning Kenya 's former President , Jomo Kenyatta . |
| 14 | The head of the Defence Agency 's Bureau of Defence Policy , Shigeru Hatakeyama , announced on March 13 that Japan was increasing its financial support for US forces within the country by $269 million in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 15 | A further meeting on April 19 in Belfast agreed to review existing extradition arrangements , following the refusals by the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 and April 6 to extradite from Dublin a number of persons wanted on terrorist offences in Northern Ireland [ see pp. 37329-30 ; 37386 ] . |
| 16 | Responding to the growing separatist agitation in Slovakia , Havel acknowledged in a nationwide broadcast on March 10 that Czechoslovakia might eventually split into two states . |
| 17 | President Turgut Özal revealed unexpectedly to journalists on March 11 that talks had been held with Iraqi Kurdish leaders in Istanbul on March 8 . |
| 18 | A government spokesman confirmed on March 11 that Pakistan , rather than Algeria , would henceforth represent Iranian interests in the USA . |
| 19 | Anatoly Sobchak , a radical Congress deputy from Leningrad , alleged in the Congress on March 14 that Ryzhkov had personally signed the export licence . |
| 20 | Charles Rose , the chairman of a House of Representatives agriculture subcommittee , claimed in the House on March 14 that BNL had loaned part of the money to Rafidain under the pretence that it formed part of a $514,000,000 government-approved export credit guarantee scheme for agricultural development in Iraq . |
| 21 | This rally , on March 18 , drew a predominantly Russian and Polish crowd of at least 30,000 , and a similar exercise preceded further anti-independence demonstrations on March 27 and April 4 . |
| 22 | The group announced on March 8th that terms had been agreed for the acquisition of Louis De Poortere Ltd. , the U.K. subsidiary of Belgian carpet manufacturing giant E.T.S. Louis De Poortere . |
| 23 | It had been announced , however , on March 1 that Japan and the USA were nearing agreement on a new procedure governing the public procurement procedures for supercomputers , an area listed under the Super 301 clause by the United States . |
| 24 | The head of the government 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission , Yilma Kasaye , announced on March 1 that Ethiopia was seeking monthly assistance of $14,000,000 to enable it to mount an airlift to Asmara from the port of Asab . |
| 25 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 26 | Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin announced at official talks later on March 4 that Turkey would extend loans and would help with Uzbekistan 's conversion from Cyrillic to Roman script , and that Uzbek banknotes would be printed in Turkey . |
| 27 | Three women were among the 77 deputies elected on March 4 and March 18 , 1990 ; 69 were newcomers to the National Assembly . |
| 28 | Xinhua ( the New China News Agency ) reported on March 3 that Xu Jiatun , who had been replaced in February 1990 as head of Xinhua 's Hong Kong branch and thus as China 's de facto representative in Hong Kong [ see p. 37185 ] , had been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and had lost his seat on the party 's central advisory commission for " deserting the party and the people " and going abroad without permission . |
| 29 | The Agence France-Presse news agency had reported on March 3 that Nguyen Khac Vien , a leading intellectual and historian , had submitted an extremely critical petition to a CPV meeting in January , describing the current CPV leadership as " totally impotent " and accusing them of " plunging the country into disorder and preventing all development " . |
| 30 | It was reported on March 22 that Kim Dae Jung , the PPD leader , had announced a merger with a dissident group led by Mrs Lee Woo Jung , a human rights activist , |