Example sentences of "finally [verb] on [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the coup attempt was finally crushed on Aug. 1 , the troops were flown to Trinidad on Aug. 3 , at the request of the Robinson government , as a " precautionary " move to protect oil installations . |
| 2 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
| 3 | In Austria it was announced on Aug. 13 that the visa requirement for Poles would be finally lifted on Sept. 1 — having originally been abolished in 1988 , but having been hurriedly re-introduced in on Sept. 6 , 1990 , in the face of a massive immigration surge . |
| 4 | The curfew in force in Tadjikistan 's capital , Dushanbe , for more than 10 months was finally lifted on Jan. 1 . |
| 5 | A curfew imposed in parts of Florida in late August in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew [ see pp. 39044 ; 39088 ] was finally lifted on Nov. 16 ; two days earlier the National Guard had shut down post-hurricane operations in the state . |
| 6 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 7 | Negotiations went into recess on Sept. 3 , but resumed on Sept. 14 before finally ending on Sept. 24 . |
| 8 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 9 | After a series of meetings the five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( China , France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) had finally agreed on Aug. 28 on a " framework document " for a solution to the conflict [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 10 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 11 | A court in Luxembourg finally approved on Oct. 22 the US$1,700 million compensation settlement initialled in February [ see pp. 38781 ; 38977 ] . |
| 12 | The standby arrangement , finally approved on Dec. 12 by the IMF , authorized drawings up to 94,800,000 special drawing rights over the next 15 months . |
| 13 | More than four months after the start of elections , the new Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet finally convened on Feb. 5 , albeit with 20 of the 360 seats still vacant . |
| 14 | It finally worked on February 21 , 1940 . |
| 15 | AFTER three years of hinting about it , Gencor , one of South Africa 's biggest conglomerates , finally announced on May 11th that it will break itself up . |
| 16 | The results as finally announced on May 22 gave the KDP , with 45.4 per cent , a marginally higher vote than that won by the PUK ( 43.9 per cent ) . |
| 17 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 18 | Chatichai finally announced on Nov. 22 his promised Cabinet reshuffle , in which Chalerm was demoted to become Deputy Education Minister , exchanging places with Sora-ath Klinprathum . |
| 19 | After a sustained rooftop protest publicising their complaints about prison conditions , the last group of five prisoners finally surrendered on April 25 . |
| 20 | The package , which applied to the current fiscal year ( ending in March 1993 ) , was finally passed on Dec. 10 , after the special session of the Diet had been extended for a further two days . |
| 21 | The bill , providing for a system of proportional representation , was finally passed on Aug. 22 after amendments were agreed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the former communist party ) , which held 210 seats in the 400-seat parliament . |
| 22 | A budget was finally passed on Oct. 28 , which aimed to reduce the country 's budget deficit by $41,400 million [ see pp. 37704 ; 37768 ] . |
| 23 | The complex " Eurolex " package of necessary legislative changes was finally passed on Oct. 21 , subject to a referendum scheduled for Dec. 6 . |
| 24 | The exchange facility finally ended on Thursday 28th March 1991 when the last British Rail train hauled by a Class 47 diesel locomotive entered the Trench Yard to collect MOD rail wagons . |
| 25 | Israel initially refused to comment on the report but it was finally confirmed on Dec. 28 by Arens who denied that there had been any direct contact with Iran . |
| 26 | The full composition of the Cabinet , replacing the Council of Ministers , was finally confirmed on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37777 ] . |
| 27 | A third round of peace talks had finally begun on Sept. 4 , and after a two-day break were resumed on Sept. 18 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas [ see pp. 38283 ; 38387 for previous peace rounds ] . |
| 28 | It was finally released on September 23 , 1970 to disappointing reviews and box office results . |
| 29 | Construction of a nuclear power station on Belene Island in the Danube was finally suspended on Feb. 15 following a general strike in the nearby town of Svishtov . |
| 30 | It noted that the authorities had failed to investigate the six previous attempts on the life of Francisco " Chico " Mendes , the peasant union leader and ecological campaigner who was finally murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri [ see p. 36459 ] . |