Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 2 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 3 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 4 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 5 | Meanwhile some 2,600,000 people in the central and southern provinces were suffering from the effects of a 60 per cent fall in agricultural production attributed to drought and conflict . |
| 6 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 7 | Food output increased considerably from 1700 to 1800 , accommodating the needs of a 60 per cent rise in population with , in most years , a small surplus to export . |
| 8 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 9 | Also , for the purposes of the 75 per cent vote , there are disregarded shares held by any person whom the court regards as a promoter of the scheme . |
| 10 | THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during the race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and is not a civil action as previously thought . |
| 11 | ( First Edition ) THE ORGANISERS of the Portuguese Grand Prix , who fined Nigel Mansell and Ferrari $50,000 for allegedly breaking the rules during their race at Estoril on 24 September , said yesterday that their case concerned only the motor racing authorities and was not a civil action , as previously reported . |
| 12 | Jane was not over-enamoured of the French : they were continually expressing themselves ( discuter , they called it ) which was rather tiring , and she had less than happy memories of a French au pair . |
| 13 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Plowden added : ‘ Last year 's forecasts of a 66 per cent rise in demand over the next 20 years brought home the enormity of the environmental threat posed by current minerals policy . ’ |
| 15 | The first Mediterranean Agreement ( February 1887 ) promised to Italy the support of Germany in a war with France over Mediterranean questions , while Great Britain exchanged with Italy mutual guarantees of the Mediterranean status quo and support . |
| 16 | Erm the world is indeed inter-related erm we are talking in strategic terms of a multilateral er er erm system just as we , as , when we come to the later lectures we will see , as is the case with economic relations . |
| 17 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 18 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 19 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 20 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 21 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 22 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 23 | The FIA said last week that the results of the Spanish Grand Prix would remain , regardless of the outcome of any appeal . |
| 24 | The following are results of the major Grand Prix races prior to 1950 . |
| 25 | A walk down the Munstergasse to the flomanesque cathedral consecrated in 1103 takes you past a treasury of old houses , their oriels jealously preserved , and brings you to the shapely cloister archways of the former zu Allerheigen ( All Saints ) monastery , now transformed into a museum which is one of the most important in north Switzerland . |
| 26 | I had planned to spend the day analysing the knock-on effects for the statistical clerks of a three per cent increase in the admin assistants ' salaries . |