Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Documentation was passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions but Prime minister John Major indicated in the House of Commons on May 19 that the government would take no further action , while the US Defence Department stated on May 19 that it considered the case closed . |
| 32 | Japan 's seventh-largest bank , Tokai Bank Ltd , announced on July 27 that it had uncovered a 63,000 million yen ( $450 million ) fraud involving deposit certificates . |
| 33 | The French government disclosed on July 5 that it had decorated Lt.-Col. Alain Mafart , one of the two French agents convicted for the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior , in Auckland harbour in 1985 [ see pp. 33852-55 ; 34565-68 ] . |
| 34 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 35 | The RBI announced on July 18 that it had recently sent a total of 46.9 tonnes of gold from its reserves to the Bank of England as collateral for raising loans . |
| 36 | The US Defence Department ( Pentagon ) confirmed on July 29 that it had agreed to sell arms , including laser-guided bombs , worth US$365,000,000 to Saudi Arabia , a move following the announcement by the Pentagon in early July of plans to sell the kingdom $473,000,000 worth of army jeeps and aircraft support services . |
| 37 | The South African government admitted on July 25 that it had spent R100,000,000 in an attempt to prevent the victory of the South West African People 's Organization ( SWAPO ) in pre-independence elections in Namibia in November 1989 [ see pp. 37031-32 ] . |
| 38 | The government announced on July 24 that it had signed a bilateral anti-drug accord with the United States government which specifically linked the fight against drug trafficking with that against domestic guerrilla insurgency [ see pp. 38187-88 for May outline agreement ] . |
| 39 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 40 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on Oct. 1 that it had increased its lending to Bangladesh — under an existing three-year enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) — to help the country to cope with the impact of the Gulf war and the effects of the April cyclone [ see pp. 38152 ; 38176-77 ] . |
| 41 | A bill to extend President 's rule in the troubled state of Punjab collapsed in the Lok Sabha on Oct. 1 when it failed to secure the required majority [ for previous extension of President 's rule in April 1990 see p. 37377 ] . |
| 42 | A second independent miners ' congress , held in Donetsk ( Ukraine ) , ended with a declaration on Oct. 26 that it had been the founding congress of an independent miners ' trade union . |
| 43 | The former guerrilla group Alfaro Vive , Carajo ! announced on Oct. 21 that it had disbanded and that its members had joined the ruling Democratic Left party ( ID ) . |
| 44 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |
| 45 | The government announced on Oct. 28 that it had sold its 51 per cent stake in Bancomer , the country 's second largest bank , for US$2,540 million . |
| 46 | Meanwhile Standard Chartered announced on Oct. 9 that it had filed a fraud claim involving US$41,000,000 against the US bank Citibank in New York over transactions in Bombay between September 1991 and March 1992 . |
| 47 | The government gave notice of its intention of reintroducing the death penalty by announcing on Oct. 15 that it intended to withdraw from the American Convention on Human Rights ( also known as the San José Pact , which entered into force in 1978 ) . |
| 48 | Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution . |
| 49 | In Luxembourg the government announced on Feb. 11 that it had authorized the USA to use its airport for the transit of materiel , troops and casualties . |
| 50 | Edi Sudrajat , announced on Feb. 27 that it had punished six senior army officers for their role in the events . |
| 51 | Settlement of the disagreement was only announced on Feb. 15 after it had been ratified by the Cabinet and the ANC executive committee . |
| 52 | The main party of opposition , the Democratic Party , also sought to widen its base prior to the election with the announcement on Nov. 26 that it had compacted an alliance with the National Congress , an umbrella organization of dissident groups . |
| 53 | The army announced on Nov. 5 that it had arrested Reynaldo Bernardo , the alleged deputy commander and head of intelligence of the Manila-based brigade of the communist New People 's Army ( NPA ) . |
| 54 | Claiming to have uncovered details of plans for an imminent military coup , the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) stated on Nov. 27 that it had placed its remaining guerrilla forces ( an estimated 3,000 not yet demobilized ) on full alert . |
| 55 | The former communist party , now the Socialist Democracy of the Republic of Poland ( SDRP ) confirmed on Nov. 7 that it had received an interest-free loan worth more than US$1,200,000 in January 1990 from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 56 | The opposition pressure group Alliance for Democracy ( Aford ) founded in September [ see p. 39086 ] said on Nov. 7 that it had been banned by the government . |
| 57 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 58 | The Ministry of the Interior announced on Nov. 20 that it had exempted the dissident writer Duong Thu Huong from criminal responsibility . |
| 59 | The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 . |
| 60 | Charter 77 , the human rights organization which played a prominent role as a focus for anti-communist dissent in the 1980s , decided to disband itself on Nov. 3 since it had " completed its historical role " . |