Example sentences of "[noun sg] marking the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising .
2 YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising .
3 Trade Unionists are planning to renew their camapign with a march marking the 10th anniversary of the ban in January next year .
4 Trade Unionists are planning to renew their camapign with a march marking the 10th anniversary of the ban in January next year .
5 The narrow zone marking the relative movement between two plates , which in most cases is fairly clearly demarcated by seismic activity , is termed a plate boundary , with the peripheral region adjacent to this boundary being referred to as a plate margin .
6 The 25 ft statue marking the 40th anniversary of the People 's Republic of China is an altogether different creature from its smashed predecessor .
7 THE special mass marking the golden jubilee of Bishop Joseph Gray 's ordination to the priesthood will be held in Birkenhead next Friday , not yesterday , as indicated in yesterday 's Daily Post .
8 A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction .
9 The expansion of the middle-class was one aspect of the great increase in population marking the nineteenth century .
10 President Hafez al-Assad on March 8 , in a speech to a youth rally marking the 27th anniversary of the accession to power of the Baath Party , appeared to confirm these reports .
11 When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 .
12 The Mikado opened in Birmingham last week and will transfer to the company 's old London home , Sadler 's Wells , on April 28 as part of a season marking the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Sullivan 's birth .
13 The move coincided with the publication of a catalogue marking the fifth anniversary of their firm .
14 Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada .
15 His plea came in a speech to nearly 5,000 delegates at a congress marking the final stage of the two-year process to merge his ruling Zanu-PF party and Joshua Nkomo 's Zapu .
16 The ANC on Jan. 8 , in a statement marking the 79th anniversary of its founding , proposed the convening of an all-party congress which would draft the broad principles of a new constitution .
17 In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter .
18 A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago !
19 Manley visited the United States on May 2-4 , 1990 , for talks with President Bush and other US officials , the visit marking the improved relations between the USA and the PNP administration .
20 President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , in a speech marking the fifth anniversary of his assumption of power on Nov. 7 , 1987 , announced reforms of the civil service , but failed to announce a timetable for multiparty democracy .
21 In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of his reign on Nov. 18 , Sultan Qaboos bin Said announced plans for the creation of a Consultative Council " to provide more opportunities for the Omani citizen 's wider participation in the responsibilities of … the fatherland " .
22 In a speech marking the 23rd anniversary of the Baa'th Party , Saddam Hussein undertook on July 17 to usher in " pluralism … [ as ] the main pillar of the next new phase " .
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