Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 On the eve of the television debate , El Mundo , a Madrid newspaper that has uncovered several corruption scandals involving the Socialists , said that the party may have used dodgy methods to finance its campaign before the 1986 referendum on whether Spain should stay in NATO .
2 At this time of day he was usually still at his office in the 550 building on Seventh Avenue .
3 And as 7-4 favourite on Thursday , he beat Espry and Bortaceva over three miles at Wincanton .
4 David Stirling 's final plan was for his force to embark in five Bristol Bombay aircraft of 216 Squadron on the night of 16 November and drop near their targets .
5 It is paying 8.9 p.c. on £2,000 for one year .
6 7.6 Research on violence to staff in Social Work Departments shows that those who have been attacked can mistakenly feel that they have failed professionally and so may not report an incident in which they have been involved .
7 7.6 ENDANGERMENT ON THE ROADS
8 After the surge in the share price on Friday the yield on Anglian shares is down to 6.1 p.c. on likely pay-outs for the current financial year to March 1992 .
9 No 192 Squadron on detachment at Bodo in Norway , 1956 .
10 Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 .
11 A small Computer Assisted Typesetting unit was established to prepare input for an ICL 1903 computer on paper tape .
12 Danish nervousness about surrendering more power to the EC has reached a new intensity in the run-up to a June 2 referendum on ratification of the treaty .
13 In response a Serbian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina was declared by ethnic Serbs who feared separation from Serbia proper , and who had boycotted the Feb. 29-March 2 referendum on independence [ see p. 38832 ] .
14 A further raid appeared next day , ‘ A ’ Flight making the scramble for 261 Squadron on this occasion .
15 On 17 March 1941 a flight of Hurricanes were detached from 274 Squadron in the Western Desert to reinforce 261 Squadron on Malta .
16 ‘ Jock ’ Barber left 261 Squadron on posting to A.H.Q. The last of the original Hurricane pilots still with the squadron , during his almost ten months of operations he had flown over 90 sorties , claimed three and one shared shot down and at least three damaged .
17 In Norway the multi-party system was further fragmented by the 1972 referendum on Norway 's membership of the European Community .
18 The government approved a draft 1993 budget on Aug. 6 which , Finance Minister Ivan Kostov told a press conference , would constitute Bulgaria 's " most trying ordeal since the start of the economic reform " .
19 Official Report on the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940
20 It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story .
21 The committee 's ultimate 7-7 vote on Sept. 27 was split on straight party lines except for one Democrat , Dennis De Concini ( Arizona ) , who endorsed Thomas .
22 In a recent B B C 2 programme on computing , the presenter commented on the huge capacity of computers such as those used by the Meteorological Office to predict the weather .
23 Industry estimates are that sales were down by 12 p.c. on the year at about 140,000 .
24 Kapiti will spend about 18% of 1993 turnover on research and development .
25 The basic objective of current cost accounting is to provide more useful information than is available from historical cost accounts alone for the guidance of management , shareholders and others on such matters as 1 the financial viability of a business 2 return on investment 3 pricing policy and cost control .
26 Evidence for the presence of histamine 2 receptor on MKN45 has also been shown by Arima et al .
27 The main finding of this work is that the effects of the human histamine H 2 receptor on adenylate cyclase are inhibited by protein kinase C and that the site of action of protein kinase C is close to the receptor .
28 WHERE IS RADIO 2 FM ON MY RADIO ?
29 — an account of a workshop organised within the framework of the June 1985 conference on The Supply and Training of Community Language Teachers by the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching in conjunction with Lancashire Polytechnic .
30 Basil Blackwell will publish in March 1986 the papers and proceedings of the June 1985 conference on ‘ Natural Resources and the Macroeconomy ’ .
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