Example sentences of "and mark [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preliminary results indicated that right-wing parties had won a clear majority of seats , underlining a shift in power to the right in favour of the government , and marking a heavy defeat for the left , in particular the PT . |
| 2 | It is a story about love and loss and marks the directional debut of writer Anthony Minghella . |
| 3 | Use levelling strips to provide the correct fall and to mark the required depth of sand . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the results of the meeting , although not legally binding , carried considerable moral and political force and marked a formal commitment by the East European countries to Western-style free markets and convertible currencies . |
| 5 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 6 | Without question , these developments will impose very powerful constraints on the schools and mark a decisive shift of power in curricular matters to the centre . |
| 7 | These belts , mainly of deciduous trees such as beech , sycamore and oak were planted over 150 years ago , and mark a high spot in land use planning and indeed in agriculture generally . |
| 8 | Measure up from the hemline and mark the finished length of the curtains , either by tacking across the width of the fabric , or with a row of pins on the right side . |
| 9 | Older machines can also knit jacquard with more than two colours in a row , but for this knitters have to separate the colours and mark the mylar sheet in the necessary way for themselves . |
| 10 | The elections to a new 205-member House of Representatives resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress , which formed a new government in late May , and marked the final stage of a 15-month democratization process which had resulted in the destruction of the old panchayat system , under which political parties had been banned and most political power had rested in the hands of the monarch , King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva [ see p. 37856 for chronology of events leading to the adoption of a new constitution in November 1990 ] . |
| 11 | The agreement was reached in the face of one of the worst droughts in the region this century [ see p. 38755 ] and marked the first occasion on which South Africa and members of the SADCC had agreed to co-operate economically . |
| 12 | The visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Syrian capital , Damascus , for talks with President Hafez al Assad on May 2-3 , was the first by an Egyptian leader for 13 years and marked the full normalization of relations between the two countries , broken off in November 1977 at the start of Egypt 's peace initiative with Israel . |