Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This protracted crisis began on 17 March 1808 when a mob of soldiers , peasants , and palace grooms forced Charles IV to dismiss Godoy , found hiding in terror in a rolled-up carpet ; two days later another mob forced Charles IV to abdicate in favour of his son , the Prince of Asturias who became Ferdinand VII . |
| 2 | I explained in Chapter 2 how the sequence of bases in DNA is translated into the sequence of amino acids in proteins . |
| 3 | This will be looked at in Chapter 7 where a number of commercial DBMS are investigated . |
| 4 | We saw in Chapter 3 how a number of major morphological features , notably orogenic mountain belts and island arcs , coincide with convergent plate boundaries ; a superficial glance at the Earth 's morphology might even suggest that all significant sub-aerial topographic features are confined to such boundaries . |
| 5 | ( See e.g. Condon v Basi [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 453 where a standard of reasonable care was applied to participants in a football match . ) |
| 6 | The grand alliance of OSI became public in May 1985 when a meeting of 20 computer companies , dominated by US rivals of IBM , met in conference and established the Corporation for Open Systems . |
| 7 | A restrictive interpretation was given to this expression in R & B Customs Brokers Ltd v UDT Finance Ltd [ 1988 ] 1 All ER 847 where the Court of Appeal held that a purchase is only in the course of business if ( a ) it is integral to the business or ( b ) there is some degree of regularity of similar transactions ( see also Peter Symons & Co v Cook ( 1981 ) 131 NLJ 758 ; Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 ) . |
| 8 | The fatal accident occurred on 5th December 1898 when a fall of earth trapped George Robinson against a tipping wagon , breaking his back . |
| 9 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |
| 10 | Planning on these lines reached its climax at Lisbon in February 1952 when the target of no fewer than 94 divisions for the defence of Europe was agreed . |
| 11 | I was on watch as quartermaster on the forenoon watch on February 6 when the officer of the watch asked why HMS Glasgow and HMS Liverpool were flying the flag at half mast . |
| 12 | President Fernando Collor de Mello , 43 , was stripped of power on Sept. 29 when the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress , voted by 434 votes to 34 to impeach him for abusing his authority . |
| 13 | The law is illustrated by the pre-Theft Act case of Hassall ( 1861 ) 169 ER 1302 where the treasurer of a Christmas club did not spend the money on Christmas treats . |
| 14 | Our new home will be the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three where the standard of football is remarkably high . |
| 15 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 16 | It was worn on 21 November 1673 when the Duke of York married Mary Beatrice d'Este , daughter of the Duke of Modena . |
| 17 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 18 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
| 19 | This was ratified in an agreement of 20 Feb. 1691 wherein every pound of money in profit was to be shared as indicated in the table below : |
| 20 | This would seem to accord with the dissenting judgment of Lord Denning MR in Re King , Robinson v Gray [ 1963 ] Ch 459 where the majority of the Court of Appeal decided that a tenant who had insured in the joint names of the landlord and tenant should be entitled to the whole of the proceeds . |
| 21 | The first bombs to fall on any British deaf school happened the day the war broke out at Margate on 3rd September 1939 when a number of incendiary bombs landed in the school grounds . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter was preaching in Alcester one Sunday in September 1642 when the sound of distant canon fire was heard . |
| 23 | The White Paper was launched in September 1990 when the Secretary of State for the Environment was my right hon. Friend the Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) . |
| 24 | An example of the output is shown in Plate 2 where an image of As , Sb and Bi in stream sediments , which are associated with gold mineralisation , indicates anomalous values over several gold prospects in the Argyll area of western Scotland . |
| 25 | He was rewarded on 16 April 1660 when the council of state outlawed all news-books except his pair . |
| 26 | On April 21 , Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic rejected the resignation of Jure Pelivan as Prime Minister ( submitted on April 6 when a state of emergency was imposed in Sarajevo ) , appointing him as Prime Minister-designate to a radically restructured future government . |
| 27 | The scandal broke on April 6 when the government of Colombia informed the Antiguan Prime Minister that a shipment of Israeli arms , allegedly intended for Antigua , had been discovered on the property of the late Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha , a leading member of the notorious Medellín cocaine cartel . |
| 28 | A tribute to the Punks and Anti-Nazi campaigners who battled hard on 29th June 1979 when a group of National Front members invaded a rave at Acklam Hall , Ladbroke Grove , West London . |