Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 2 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 3 | THE RESULT of the Spanish Grand Prix will not be nullified , even if an appeal by Nigel Mansell on his exclusion from it is successful , the president of FISA , the sport 's ruling body , said yesterday . |
| 4 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 6 | In essence , this book is a detailed , synthetic study of the fourteenth-century Sala dei Nove in Siena , the fifteenth-century Camera Picta in Mantua and the mid sixteenth-century Sala Grande in the Palazzo Vecchio of Florence . |
| 7 | Neutralisation still had conservative connotations ; it would encourage the stabilisation of the political status quo in the country or region concerned and impose restraints on the unilateral pursuit of Soviet interests at a time when national liberation movements were achieving success with Soviet assistance . |
| 8 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 9 | A more accurate appraisal of the new status quo is that that would be the case … except for the small print . |
| 10 | The effect of the 25 per cent reduction in fares would be to place an inordinate burden on the ratepayers , particularly because this would be accompanied by a known loss of rate support grant . |
| 11 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |
| 12 | In the light of the 86 per cent . |
| 13 | This would range from total recovery to the maintenance of a vegetative status quo . |
| 14 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 15 | The illusion of an automatic tabula rasa also undermines the need for society to reflect on the consciousness that evolved under the conditions of the past 40 years . |
| 16 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 17 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 19 | They have become part of the spacious ports de bras used during the dance . |
| 20 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 21 | It seems set to grab a large part of the 15 per cent gap in the EEC 's joint research programme left by the demise of Super-SARA . |
| 22 | IF you still have some Christmas presents to buy , why not pay a visit to the shop at your local Historic Scotland monument and take advantage of the 10 per cent discount available to Friends ? |
| 23 | So why not take advantage of the 15 per cent discount offered to all Ideal Home subscribers until May 1993 ? |
| 24 | In his annual report to the Supreme Soviet Matiukhin said that he had resigned because ( i ) the government had taken no effective steps to solve the cash shortage ; ( ii ) inter-enterprise debt stood at 2,000,000 million roubles for which the Bank was criticized although it was following government policy ; and ( iii ) the Supreme Soviet was demanding a reduction of the 80 per cent interest rate to 50 per cent . |
| 25 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 26 | As well as competitive asking prices , Fairview offers a choice of cash benefits , including payment of legal fees and stamp duty , and the payment of a five per cent deposit or free management charges for a year . |
| 27 | The remainder of the 78 per cent will be taken up by other allied investors . |
| 28 | ‘ Vesta ’ was his contribution to The Triumphes of Oriana ( London , 1601 ) , a collection of madrigals by twenty-four composers compiled by Morley in emulation of the Italian Trionfo di Dori ( Venice , 1592 ) to which Giovanni Gabrieli , Vecchi , Marenzio , de Monte , Croce , Striggio , Felice Anerio , Gastoldi , Palestrina , and others had contributed . |
| 29 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 30 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |