Example sentences of "on [art] [det] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WEU Assembly ( consisting of delegates of the member countries to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe-see p. 37211 ) held sessions in Paris on June 5-8 and Dec. 4-7 , 1989 , adopting unanimously on the latter occasion the Caro Report advocating strengthening of the WEU 's role as the sole West European institution competent in defence matters . |
| 2 | Similar , though slightly more muted , approval was given to the propositions on Christian education , discussed from 17 to 19 November , and on the latter date the Council turned its attention briefly to recommendations to simplify marriage legislation and end discrimination against non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages . |
| 3 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
| 4 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 5 | The programme placed German unity before European unity and on the latter point the goal was defined as " not a united Europe but a Europe of the fatherlands " . |
| 6 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 7 | On the same date the exhibition of Ray Smith 's sculpture also closes at that space . |
| 8 | On the same date the crown lordships of Preston and Uppingham were let for £49. 17s. 8d. a year to a certain Robert Symmys , who also had a lease for £10. 3s. 8½d. at Ridlington . |
| 9 | On the same day the DHSS published a consultation paper proposing changes which would deprive many of income . |
| 10 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 11 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 12 | On the same day the New York Times carried the review that launched his career , the Times-Picayune of New Orleans had Seth calling himself an ‘ addict alcoholic ’ and ‘ a con man … |
| 13 | Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin . |
| 14 | On the same day the lowest tender to build the smallpox hospital , for £350 ( Mr. Toll ) , was accepted , on the understanding that the contract had to be completed in three months . |
| 15 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 16 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 17 | On the same day the implied yield on the September government-bond futures contract was over 5% . |
| 18 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 19 | On the same day the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union was announced . |
| 20 | On the same day the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet voted overwhelmingly to declare invalid on Lithuanian territory the USSR Law on Supervision of the Constitution , passed by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in December 1989 [ see p. 37127 ] . |
| 21 | On the same day the first indication that such dialogue was already under way came with the announcement that evacuation of Armenian and Russian refugees and servicemen 's families from Baku had been suspended after the Popular Front had agreed to guarantee their safety ( more than 30,000 people , including most of Baku 's Armenian community , having already been evacuated in the previous 10 days ) . |
| 22 | On the same day the CNU Executive Bureau issued a decree banning spontaneous demonstrations and designed to protect state offices and those of opposition political parties . |
| 23 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 24 | The curfew was lifted on April 9 , and on the same day the opposition groups had a meeting with the King in which they affirmed their commitment to the establishment of " full democracy " . |
| 25 | On the same day the B & I ferry Norrona caught fire en route from Pembroke in Wales to Rosslare in Ireland ; two men suspected of arson were detained and later released on bail . |
| 26 | On the same day the first reading took place of a bill to merge the Ministries of Defence and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps into a single Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics [ for merger of Ministries in August Cabinet reshuffle see p. 36859 ] . |
| 27 | On the same day the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point in Berlin was also removed . |
| 28 | On the same day the Israeli embassy in Washington stated that the decision would " enhance and promote the peace process " by encouraging " those Palestinians seeking peace with Israel to seize upon this opportunity to begin a direct dialogue with Israel " . |
| 29 | On the same day the Pretoria city council agreed to open a number of municipal facilities to all races and to end the whites ' monopoly of the central trading areas in what was described as a " courageous move " by The Times , given the extent of the Conservative Party 's support in Pretoria . |
| 30 | On the same day the government announced that although Part II of the Football Spectators Act , which gave powers to the courts to impose restriction orders on those convicted of football-related offences , would be implemented as soon as possible , Part I of the Act which proposed a national membership scheme would not now go ahead in view of the advice given in the report . |