Example sentences of "[adv] to mark the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Holders Stockton have no game , but will stage a special celebration in their clubhouse tonight to mark the 50th birthday of fourth team full back Jimmy Collins .
2 Thousands of Taiwanese rallied yesterday to mark the 10th anniversary of an anti-government riot and demand the release of dissidents involved in the 1979 incident .
3 He has n't played a competitive game since , but turned out with an Ulster XV in the unlikely setting of Sheephaven Bay yesterday to mark the local club 's introduction into the Ulster League .
4 Two of a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference depict Papua and New Guinea orchids Dendrobium hellwigianum , on the 18p stamp , and Dendrobium vexillarius on the 39p stamp , that Paddy Woods has spent 30 years investigating .
5 A government official said the army would halt its clean-up operation against unauthorised armed men in Kabul today to mark the fourth anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops .
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