Example sentences of "[noun] abolished the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1972 Local Government Act abolished the eighty-three county boroughs in England and Wales and reduced the fifty-eight county councils to forty-seven , ranging from populations of 110,000 ( Powys ) to 1.5m ( Hampshire ) . |
| 2 | In 1987 , the Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act abolished the existing salary scales ( see the introduction to Figures 7.5–7.8 below ) , and also the Burnham Committees , in which representatives from the teachers ' unions , the LEAs and the DES had negotiated salary structure , levels of pay and conditions of service . |
| 3 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 4 | The Energy Act abolished the public sector 's monopoly and allowed private companies to generate electricity as a main business . |
| 5 | An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower . |
| 6 | In March 1990 the Congress of People 's Deputies abolished the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) 's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power ( enshrined in Article 6 of the 1977 Constitution ) . |
| 7 | Some small businesses may also benefit from that option since the Bill abolished the minimum threshold of rateable value which a business previously had to meet to be eligible for a metered supply . |
| 8 | Preincubation with staurosporine abolished the stimulatory effect of 100 nmol/l TPA on the response to 100 nmol/l gastric inhibitory polypeptide and the inhibitory effect of TPA on the response to TGLP-1 ( Table I ) . |
| 9 | Then , in 1986 the Thatcher government abolished the metropolitan counties . |
| 10 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 11 | In addition to the price increases the government abolished the complicated currency exchange system , stating that the inti would be allowed to find its free market level . |
| 12 | Subsequent legislation abolished the metropolitan counties ( together with the Greater London Council ) . |
| 13 | When , in December 1855 , the tsar abolished the notorious Committee of 2 April 1848 , he implied that he would be treating the press with a new generosity . |
| 14 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |