Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He appealed for members to comment by ringing Brenda on Middlesbrough 244860 or calling in at the club . |
| 2 | Recommending fresh elections , he described his decision in a broadcast on March 7 as intended " to save the dignity of the nation " . |
| 3 | When the British foreign secretary , Sir Geoffrey Howe , visited Peshawar on March 28th and talked to resistance leaders , he ducked the issue by saying that Britain 's practice was to recognise states , not governments . |
| 4 | The new timetable prolonged the transition period for a second time [ see p. 38563 for first extension ] despite the government 's insistence in January that the transition would end on March 26 as planned [ see p. 38709 ] . |
| 5 | Likud ministers and Knesset members met on March 18 and approved Shamir 's continuation as party leader . |
| 6 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION ( above ) release their second One Little Indian LP on March 18 and have announced a massive UK tour through March and April . |
| 7 | CHAPTERHOUSE release their third Dedicated 45 ‘ Pearl ’ on March 18 and have announced details of their most extensive tour yet . |
| 8 | N'Zau Puna contacted the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London on March 10 and said that he and Fernandes had left UNITA because of " mistakes and irregularities at the heart of the organization " . |
| 9 | GREEN ON RED issue their China single , ‘ Little Things ’ , on March 11 and play three dates in London to tie in with its release . |
| 10 | Ten opposition groupings met together on March 14 and formed the Front of Associations for Renewal ( FAR ) under the leadership of a lawyer , Yawo Agboyibo . |
| 11 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 12 | President Vytautas Landsbergis visited Japan on March 4-9 and held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe . |
| 13 | IDB took over management of TRT from its present owner , PacifiCorp 's Pacific Telecom Inc on March 1 and says the deal will be finalised in the third quarter , once regulatory approvals are received . |
| 14 | According to an agreement signed on Jan. 29 by the government and the Maoist Popular Liberation Army ( EPL ) , the EPL would lay down its arms on March 1 and become a legal political party with two seats in the Constituent Assembly . |
| 15 | The foreign ministers of all 10 Baltic littoral states met in Copenhagen , Denmark , on March 5-6 and agreed to establish a Council of Baltic States . |
| 16 | to 2,501,943 at the end of December , and finally reached 5,201,919 in March 1991 before being renamed the gold cordoba on March 4 and set at 5.0726 to the US dollar . |
| 17 | Fighting had begun when the Dnestr National Guard , said to number 1,000 , attacked Moldovan police headquarters on March 1-2 and blockaded roads to the town of Dubossary . |
| 18 | The protest was signed by among others , eight of the 10 deputies who had been named on March 22 as having been StB collaborators [ see p. 38107 ] , although not by Jan Kavan . |
| 19 | The joint HDUR and UVR talks ended on March 24 and called for respect of rights of nationalists and minorities , for the right to education in a mother tongue and for an unbiased bilingual media to assess accurately recent disturbances . |
| 20 | Opposition groups met on March 23 and demanded the President 's resignation . |
| 21 | Chatichai Choonhaven , was released from military detention on March 9 and left Thailand for a " holiday " in Europe three days later . |
| 22 | A draft Bill of Rights , which was intended to secure basic civil liberties for Hong Kong following the reversion of its sovereignty to China in 1997 , was approved by the colony 's Executive Council on March 6 and published on March 16 . |
| 23 | The Council of State meeting on March 29-31 ( at which the Cabinet changes were decided ) had been preceded by a 15-day Communist Party central committee plenum , which concluded on March 28 and issued a communiqué emphasizing that the party would continue to play a dominant role in government . |
| 24 | Aeroflot is due to start up a Stansted to St Petersburg service on March 28 and has indicated it might apply for transatlantic routes later in the year . |
| 25 | IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast . |
| 26 | UN Under-Secretary-General Marrack Goulding visited El Salvador on March 12-14 and held talks with both sides in an effort to resolve the dispute . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the PPP , which joined other parties to give Shah a rare unanimous vote of confidence , was reported on March 20 as saying that his party had resisted contesting the Chief Ministership to " save the assembly " from dissolution . |
| 28 | Imran Iman , a former BCCI manager , had been arrested on March 20 and charged with conspiring to account falsely for $179,400,000 . |
| 29 | During the course of the trial , which began on March 20 and involved 95 witnesses , she frequently wept and , on several occasions , collapsed suffering from high blood pressure and gastric ailments . |
| 30 | Following his return to Cyprus , Denktash resigned on March 15 and called early presidential elections for April 22 . |