Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont reiterated on the same day that the UK government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain the existing DM2.95 central parity of the pound . |
| 2 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 3 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 4 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 5 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 6 | But that was the shock awaiting staff at Knowle infants school , Solihull , yesterday when nine new pairs of three , four and five-year-olds arrived on the same day to join one couple of twins already there . |
| 7 | Constitutional changes were first announced on April 28 at the extraordinary congress of the ruling National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) which began on the same day . |
| 8 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |
| 9 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 10 | My coming summer holiday started on the same day as my cousin 's , and I was much looking forward to it . |
| 11 | Nicaragua retaliated on Dec. 30 by ordering 20 US diplomats to leave the country forthwith , and US President George Bush admitted on the same day that the action was a " screw-up " . |
| 12 | Ridge of the Junior School died on the same day whilst posting a letter on Woodsmoor Lane . |
| 13 | Another person died on the same day and at least eight people were hospitalized with bullet wounds after police had moved in to smash barricades erected by demonstrators at Pec . |
| 14 | It says here Mr died on the same day as Mr St er was buried . |
| 15 | In a letter confirming their arrangement which Scott sent on the same day , his main concern was to ensure the approval of Stanley and the India Council . |
| 16 | On Feb. 3 between 3,000 and 10,000 protesters marched 14 km from Madrid to the Torrejón air base demanding the closure of US-Spanish bases as staging posts to the Gulf ; 3,500 marched on the same day to the Rota naval base on the south Atlantic coast . |
| 17 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 18 | Reports of the compromise emerged on the same day the contract for the EFA 's main electrical generator was awarded to a consortium including Ferranti and Telefunken . |
| 19 | The reason the two items appeared on the same day is your Editor 's responsibility . |
| 20 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 21 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 22 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 23 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 24 | The FRY recognized the independence of Slovenia on Aug. 13 , but the Slovene President Milan Kucan said on the same day that this recognition meant nothing " until the FRY itself obtains international recognition " [ for wide international recognition of Slovenia in January 1992 , see p. 38703 ] . |