Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 2 | It was reported on March 13 that a Bulgarian seaman had died in hospital following an incident in which two Bulgarian patrol boats had fired at eight Turkish fishing boats , one of which had responded by ramming a Bulgarian boat . |
| 3 | In the context of moves towards unification , the Aden news agency said on March 3 that a single budget for 1991 would be drawn up by the North and South Yemeni finance ministers . |
| 4 | It was reported on March 3 that a senior NPA member , Ricardo Capili Reyes , had been apprehended at a checkpoint in Manila . |
| 5 | Klaus announced on March 23 that a government office for privatization of state-owned enterprises would be set up ; it was reported , however , that there were differences within the Cabinet over the extent to which such enterprises should be privatized . |
| 6 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
| 7 | It was reported on March 25 that a French court had ordered the prosecution of René Bousquel who was wartime head of the Vichy administration 's national police . |
| 8 | A second phase was concluded on March 20 and a third phase , scheduled to end on April 25 , had been extended into May due to the large amounts of weapons in the hands of civilians which needed to be destroyed . |
| 9 | A police source said on March 15 that a list of some 200 " godfathers " had been drawn up , and that it included a number of former MPs and Cabinet ministers . |
| 10 | It was reported on March 21 that a transport plane , in which members of Senegal 's contingent in the anti-Iraq coalition were returning from a visit to Mecca , crashed in Saudi Arabia killing 92 people . |
| 11 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 12 | Claims by FORD members at a press conference on Jan. 11 that a military coup was being prepared to stifle the democracy movement were dismissed by the government as " malicious rumours " . |
| 13 | Charles Nupen , a strike mediator , announced on Jan. 26 that a settlement between the two sides had been reached whereby SATS agreed to recognize SARHWU and to negotiate wages and conditions of service with the union in areas where it obtained registrations under the Labour Relations Act . |
| 14 | The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported on Jan. 14 that a former Soviet diplomat had recently been sentenced to death for passing Soviet defence secrets to the United States . |
| 15 | The State Council spokesman , Yuan Mu , said on Jan. 10 that a policy of " leniency " was being adopted in the trials , which were closed to foreign observers . |
| 16 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 17 | They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed , including live radio coverage of the talks . |
| 18 | Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Jan. 24 that a Russian military delegation would visit Vietnam before mid-1992 to negotiate the withdrawal of all military personnel from the Cam Ranh naval base . |
| 19 | The emaciated guitarist balances precariously on legs thinner than a pair of whittled Swan Vestas , which is fine , because a painfully thin member is essential if the glam card is going to be successfully played . |
| 20 | Nabi Berri , leader of the Shia organization Amal and currently a Cabinet member , said on Aug. 18 that a postponement was undesirable and that " those who call for a postponement are also targeting the Taif accord " . |
| 21 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 22 | Mandela indicated on Aug. 13 that a statement of intent by the government to implement a non-racial constitution might be sufficient for the ANC to call for the ending of sanctions against South Africa . |
| 23 | However , in a rare display of unity , the country 's four main opposition parties — the Social Democratic Party of Japan ( SDPJ ) , the Komeito ( Clean Government ) Party , the Japanese Communist Party ( JSP ) and the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) — threatened to disrupt the special Diet session scheduled to begin on Aug. 5 unless a full legislative inquiry was undertaken . |
| 24 | It was reported on Aug. 22 that a German national , Egbert Partesius and an Afghan , Abdul Aziz Ahmad , were arrested in Phoenix , Arizona ( USA ) , on charges of trying to sell a VAX 8820 computer with military applications to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Attorney General Dick Thornburgh formally left the Cabinet on Aug. 9 , after a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 6 that a special election should be held on Nov. 5 to fill the Senate seat of the late John Heinz — although Thornburgh had made known his intention to contest the vacant seat , his resignation from the government had been deferred pending a judicial examination of the constitutionality of Pennsylvania 's special election statute . |
| 26 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 27 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 28 | In Georgia , which had declared independence on April 9 , 1991 [ see p. 38159 ] , the Supreme Soviet banned the CP on Aug. 27 , and it was reported on Aug. 28 that a Georgian ministry of defence was being created . |
| 29 | Radio Lebanon reported on Aug. 24 that a number of civilians were killed or wounded in the subsequent SLA barrage , during which , according to some sources , regular Lebanese soldiers ( deployed in the south since July — see p. 38360 ) clashed with SLA fighters . |
| 30 | Corollary Inc will sponsor a Multiprocessor Summit on February 23 and a Multiprocessor Boot Camp on February 24 at the Santa Clara Marriott in Silicon Valley . |