Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] [adv] [vb pp] [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 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Austria had on Jan. 17 also reimposed a visa restriction for Turkish people , initially for three months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both houses of parliament on Aug. 20 unanimously approved a constitutional amendment granting official language status to Konkani , Manipuri and Nepali . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The Majlis had on May 23 unanimously approved a change in its formal title from the National Consultative Assembly to the Islamic Consultative Assembly . |
| 13 | The CSCE assembly on July 5 also adopted a resolution on the situation in the Dnestr region of Moldova [ see pp. 38877-78 ; 38924 ] demanding " an immediate ceasefire between the sides involved in the conflict , as well as the [ ex-Soviet ] 24th Army 's neutrality and its withdrawal from the Republic of Moldova " . |
| 14 | The National Assembly on July 18 overwhelmingly approved a bill amending the Constitution and granting the government special powers to combat terrorist crimes . |
| 15 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 16 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) on Nov. 4 narrowly won a by-election for a seat in the upper chamber of the Diet for the conservative Aichi prefecture , the home region of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 17 | A special conference of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) on Dec. 3 unanimously endorsed a proposal made by President Daniel arap Moi to repeal Section 2A of the Constitution , which stipulated that KANU was the only legal political party . |
| 18 | Despite Dole 's change of stance , the House of Representatives on April 24 overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution which mirrored the earlier Senate resolution . |
| 19 | Led by Dimas Tigrillo ( " Wildcat " ) , the re-contras had on June 13 forcibly occupied the town of San José Bocay , 250 km north of Managua , to publicize their demands , among which were the restructuring and integration of contras into the predominantly Sandinista police force in the north , and the removal of Humberto Ortega from his post . |
| 20 | The IMF on June 23 furthermore approved an extended arrangement authorizing purchases up to the equivalent of SDR3,703 million ( about $4,600 million ) over the next three years . |
| 21 | The ruling National Party ( NP ) on June 6 narrowly won a ( whites-only ) by-election to the House of Assembly in the suburban constituency of Umlazi ( Natal ) , in what was seen as an indicator of white opinion regarding President F. W. de Klerk 's reform measures . |