Example sentences of "on [noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John on Tuesday last set out with Gilbert for Launceston , intending to visit some island in Bass 's Straits . |
| 2 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 3 | A group of businessmen and politicians decided on Sept. 21 to carry on with the referendum proposal and on Sept. 26 began collecting signatures in favour of the referendum . |
| 4 | Even so , the Bosnian Serbs ' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan on May 6th stands out as a spectacular triumph of greed and folly over common sense . |
| 5 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin on Oct. 14 handed over to a US and South Korean delegation in Moscow data relating to the shooting down by the former Soviet Union of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Sakhalin in September 1983 [ see pp. 32513-17 ] . |
| 6 | After consultations with other Western governments the United States adminstration on April 24 drew back from any punitive measures against the Soviet Union over its blockade of Lithuania ( officials having previously hinted at possible limited economic sanctions ) , when President Bush gave a clear indication at a press conference that the administration considered Gorbachev 's political survival and good Soviet-US relations to be more important than Lithuanian independence , explaining : " I am concerned that we do not inadvertently compel the Soviet Union to do something that would set back the whole process of freedom around the world . " |