Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Import Duties Bill of February 1932 also imposed a general tariff of 10 per cent on almost all imports , and the Import Duties Advisory Committee , which it formed quickly , raised the tariff to 20 per cent on manufactured goods , to between 25 and 30 per cent on luxury goods and to 33 per cent on chemicals and a wide range of other goods . |
| 2 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 3 | The fires of May 1862 only confirmed the authorities in their antipathy to students . |
| 4 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 5 | The latter move came in the wake of parliament 's decision of Dec. 11 temporarily to suspend the privatization process . |
| 6 | One of the Russian admirers of Peter I actually hung the Tsar 's picture among the holy ikons in his house and burnt candles before it . |
| 7 | Having read your newspaper for many years , I believe your edition of April 17th best illustrates the dilemma facing those who interpret the events of the late 20th century . |
| 8 | The Financial Times of April 2 also quoted a DPK spokesman as alleging that " we are facing a worse genocide than Halabja " , a reference to the use in 1988 of poison gas by the Iraqi army in the town of Halabja which killed an estimated 5,000-6,000 people [ see pp. 36168-69 ] . |
| 9 | A situation report from Hesse in March 1936 expressly mentions the opinion , allegedly widely held among the population in the area , though undoubtedly reflecting above all the views of Party activists , ‘ that the Führer had for outward appearances to ban individual actions against the Jews in consideration of foreign policy , but in reality was wholly in agreement that each individual should continue on his own initiative the fight against Jewry in the most rigorous and radical form ’ . |
| 10 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 11 | A referendum held in November 1990 decisively rejected the proposal that the Governor 's power of veto should be restricted . |
| 12 | Ibrahim Babangida , who had in October 1989 severely restricted the electorate 's choice by dissolving 13 political parties , sanctioning instead the creation of the SDP and NRC [ see p. 36968 ] . |
| 13 | Though bottom of the First Division , City played intelligent , skilful soccer , full of simple passes , with players such as Bishop and Lake comfortable enough on the ball to create space , and a striker in Allen sharp enough to take the half-chance that put City deservedly ahead . |
| 14 | His first full address to the Central Committee in April 1985 again emphasised the importance of the 26th Congress and called for a ‘ steady advance ’ rather than a clear break with earlier policies ; the party 's general line , as he explained it , involved the ‘ perfection of developed socialist society ’ , a characterisation that was thoroughly Brezhnevian in tone . |
| 15 | The Congress on March 13 also abolished the CPSU 's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power ( the communist monopoly had already been abolished in recent months in several union republics ) . |
| 16 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |
| 17 | Canada on Jan. 1 formally joined the OAS as its 33rd member , having held observer status since 1972 . |
| 18 | Austria had on Jan. 17 also reimposed a visa restriction for Turkish people , initially for three months . |
| 19 | The Macedonian Assembly on Jan. 25 unanimously adopted a declaration of the republic 's sovereignty , and a platform on Yugoslavia 's future structure ; the sovereignty declaration enshrined the right of the Macedonian people to self-determination , including the right to secede from Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 21 | The Council of Ministers on Jan. 24 also approved a 300,000 million ptas investment plan for Asturias providing for the creation of 1,800 new jobs over the next six years with special regard to the mining sector . |
| 22 | Both houses of parliament on Aug. 20 unanimously approved a constitutional amendment granting official language status to Konkani , Manipuri and Nepali . |
| 23 | The Supreme Court on Sept. 1 unanimously rejected a petition brought by Sirimavo Bandaranaike , leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , challenging Premadasa 's election in December 1988 . |
| 24 | Without waiting for a decision by the USSR Supreme Soviet , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 overwhelmingly adopted the Shatalin programme ( itself a revision of a programme originated by the Russian Federation government ) for the republican economy . |
| 25 | Signifying that the Vatican had accepted the basilica in return for a government undertaking to spend more on health and education , the Pope on Sept. 10 also blessed the foundation stones of a hospital and a Catholic university . |
| 26 | Following an increase in violence during 1989 , President Vinicio Cerezo on Sept. 18 publicly blamed the extreme right which he said was trying to destabilize his government . |
| 27 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 28 | In a speech on Sept. 3 formally accepting the constitutional changes , President Joseph Momoh said that a date for the registration of new political parties would be announced shortly . |
| 29 | Saddam Hussein on Sept. 3 formally approved a law legalizing opposition parties and ostensibly ending 23 years of one-party rule ( since the 1968 coup ) . |
| 30 | In a first move of this kind , the government on May 16 formally lodged a request with Syria for the extradition of Alois Brunner , who was alleged to have ordered the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Germany and France . |