Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 2 | Hungary appeared to take a step in the right direction when its rulers voted to transmute the old Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party into a new , reformist-led Socialist Party — and in effect divorced the party from the state . |
| 3 | Education — School — Parental preference — Duty to comply — Over-subscribed Roman Catholic girls ' school — Admission policy giving priority to Roman Catholic and other Christians — Hindu and Muslim applicants not fulfilling admission criteria — Refusal of admission by governors — Appeal committee dismissing appeal — Whether school bound by parental preference — Whether appeal committee 's decision correct in law — Education Act 1980 ( c. 20 ) , s. 6(3) ( a ) ( as amended by Education Reform Act 1988 ( c. 40 ) , s. 30 ) |
| 4 | The conflict in Cambodia , and in particular the US policy change , inevitably dominated the 23rd annual ASEAN Foreign Ministers ' meeting on July 24-25 in Indonesia [ see p. 37613 ] . |
| 5 | SOME 180 children from eleven schools took part in the annual large primary schools ' netball rally at Eggar 's School , Alton on Saturday . |
| 6 | A voluntary aided Roman Catholic comprehensive girls ' school adopted an admission policy in which the categories for admission were , in order of priority , baptised Roman Catholics , children of baptised Roman Catholics , practising Christians and other Christians , in the latter two cases giving priority to those with sisters at the school . |
| 7 | These were appeals by the applicants , Abdul Malik Choudhury and Nitya Ranjan Purkayastha , by leave of the Court of Appeal , from an order dated 6 November 1991 of that court ( Balcombe , Taylor and McCowan L.JJ. ) ( 1991 ) 90 L.G.R. 103 , allowing appeals by the respondents , The Bishop Challoner Roman Catholic Comprehensive Girls ' School ( ‘ the school ’ ) and the appeal committee of the school , against orders dated 31 July 1991 of Simon Brown J. |
| 8 | In the present case , the voluntary aided school in question , The Bishop Challoner Roman Catholic Comprehensive Girls ' School in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , adopted the following admission policy : |
| 9 | The circuit 's owners , the exclusive British Racing Drivers ' Club , whose members include Nigel Mansell , Stirling Moss , James Hunt and Jackie Stewart , admit that they need to spend £15-20 million on the track if it is to continue as home of the British Grand Prix . |
| 10 | When it was time to go home again , at the hospital gates the friendly porter was on duty , sitting inside the cosy little wooden porters ' hut . |
| 11 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 12 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 13 | Guerra announced his decision unexpectedly at a regional congress of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in Cáceres ( Extremadura ) ; he retained the post of PSOE deputy secretary-general . |
| 14 | In elections on May 26 for municipal administrations and for 13 of Spain 's 17 regional governments the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) slightly increased its overall support but lost control of several large cities . |
| 15 | Having been overruled by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) hierarchy and the spending ministries on requested budget cuts , Solchaga had regained the initiative through these measures of financial and trade liberalization . |
| 16 | Combining a slimming diet with exercise , even that brisk extra thirty minutes ' walk every day , will gradually show satisfying results . |
| 17 | AS DELEGATES were preparing for the congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party which begins today , two of the most conservative factions yesterday issued an open challenge to the party 's reformist leadership . |
| 18 | DESIGNER SOCIALISM arrived in Hungary at 17 minutes past eight on Saturday night , when delegates to the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party congress voted overwhelmingly to drop ‘ Workers ’ from their title . |
| 19 | The Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — the former ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party — HSWP ) opened its second congress on May 26 and elected former Foreign Minister Gyüla Horn as its chairman , replacing Rezsö Nyers [ for whose appointment in June 1989 see p. 36746 ] . |
| 20 | Kiraly had been sitting as an independent member of the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , having first been elected in 1985 as a radical member of the then ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) . |
| 21 | Although some deputies represented minor parties and associations , as had happened in the past , all candidates were approved by the ruling communist Korean Workers ' Party led by Kim Il Sung . |
| 22 | Solidarity , at its peak , embraced more than 9 million of Poland 's 13 million workers ; it prompted the formation of a country counterpart , Rural Solidarity , and profoundly affected the ruling Polish United Workers ' Party , about a third of whose members are estimated to have joined Solidarity at this time . |
| 23 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 24 | The Sejm on Nov. 9 adopted a bill to implement the findings of its Justice and Legislative Affairs commissions concerning the assets of the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) . |
| 25 | All but one ( Marcin Swiecicki , Minister of Foreign Economic Co-operation ) of the ministers who had belonged to the former ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) were replaced by Solidarity or Solidarity coalition party members by November 1990 [ see pp. 37621 ; 37841 ; for new government after presidential elections see pp. 37922 ; 37974 ] . |
| 26 | Later in August 52 members of the outlawed Egyptian Communist Workers ' Party ( ECWP ) were arrested ( see p. 36861 ) , some of whom were prominent members of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights ( EOHR ) , who had helped to publicise the arrests and alleged torture of workers from the Helwan plant . |
| 27 | In Hungary , Mr Karoly Grosz , general secretary until last month of the now defunct Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) , wants to reorganise the party and start a new Communist newspaper . |
| 28 | It was confirmed on Aug. 14 that the small right-wing National Smallholders ' Party led by Imre Boross had reached agreement with the Independent Smallholders ' Party — from which it had split in December 1989 [ see p. 37739 ] — and would reunite with it at an unspecified date in the future . |
| 29 | On April 22 the conference backed a call by Mazowiecki for the holding of free elections to the Sejm ( parliament ) in early 1991 — the next poll being due only in 1992 — and for changes to the Constitution which would abolish the right of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) to make up 85 per cent of the Sejm 's membership . |
| 30 | The six candidates who contested the presidential elections were ( i ) Roman Bartoszcze , aged 44 , chair of the Polish Peasants Party ( PSL ) ; ( ii ) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz , aged 40 , the chair of the left-wing caucus in parliament and former member of the communist Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) ; ( iii ) Tadeusz Mazowiecki , aged 63 , Prime Minister since August 1989 , endorsed by the centre-left Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action ( ROAD ) ; ( iv ) Leszek Moczulski , aged 40 , chair of the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) ; ( v ) Stanislaw Tyminski , aged 42 , an independent backed by the small right-wing Libertarian Party of Canada , of which he was leader ; and ( vi ) Lech Walesa , aged 47 , the chairman of the Solidarity trade union . |