Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS NEARLY TWO YEARS SINCE ICI Chemicals & Polymers was formed on New Year 's Day in 1987 as a new group within ICI responsible for about a third of the Group 's total assets and turnover . |
| 2 | In 1860 he won the headmaster 's poetry prize with ‘ The Escorial ’ ; another schoolboy poem appeared in February 1863 in Once a Week , one of the few to be published during his lifetime . |
| 3 | For Ho Chi Minh , formerly ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , it was an accolade that corresponded to reality but of all the ‘ objective circumstances ’ which might be held to account for even a temporary communist victory in August 1945 at least the most striking and immediate was the political vacuum into which they moved . |
| 4 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 5 | A new umbrella organization , the Movement for Freedom and Justice ( MFJ ) was launched on Aug. 1 to further the aim of a return to multiparty politics and civilian rule . |
| 6 | The " congress " of the combined French National Assembly and Senate ( lower and upper houses of parliament ) , holding a vote on June 23 for only the fourth time since the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 ( earlier occasions being in 1963 , 1974 and 1976 ) , approved by 592 to 73 the constitutional amendments necessary before submitting the Treaty for ratification by referendum [ see also pp. 38882-83 ] . |