Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | More recently , Edward Shorter has made a similar case for improvements in women 's health status generally as a pre-requisite to an active feminist movement . |
| 2 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 3 | ( c ) Recalculate the two profit figures from ( b ) above assuming that all data remain the same except that , on 31 December Year 43 , Bergman Ltd had purchased an additional 1,000 units of Game X at £10.00 each and there were 3,000 units of Game X in stock on that date . |
| 4 | Bergman Ltd has used the periodic system of recording stock . |
| 5 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 6 | The man chosen to be the ‘ Charter Mayor ’ was Mr. James Clements , who had been the Chairman of the Brentford District Council in 1903 , and as such had been present when King Edward VII had opened the new Kew Bridge . |
| 7 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 8 | After the directives following the Casablanca Conference of January 1943 had linked the British ‘ area bombing ’ by night to the American daytime ‘ precision raids ’ in a ‘ round-the-clock bombing ’ strategy , which formed the allied combined-bomber offensive , the raids — described , in this case aptly , by German propaganda as ‘ terror-bombing ’ — escalated rapidly in extent and ferocity . |
| 9 | President Alan Garcia 's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector . |
| 10 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 11 | Successful high-profile appeals of the Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , the Maguire family and the Tottenham Three have traumatised the criminal justice system and led to a Royal Commission , but they have not stopped the complaints . |
| 12 | Russia , which in January 1992 had assumed the special guest status enjoyed by the former Soviet Union , on May 7 applied for full membership of the Council . |
| 13 | The UK group is expected to meet the small group criteria for its current financial year ending 31 December 1992 having met the relevant criteria in its previous financial year . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered , also implicated in the scandal [ see pp. 38967 ; 39008 ] , was reported on Aug. 6 to have transferred an additional US$200,000,000 to meet liquidity shortages in its Indian operations . |
| 15 | The Pensioners ' Party was reported on Sept. 25 to have gained a National Assembly seat when independent deputy Imre Barcza joined the party . |
| 16 | Rabuka , who in May 1987 had ousted the civilian government elected one month earlier , was appointed Prime Minister on June 2 and named a coalition government on the following day . |
| 17 | The meeting had been called by the party 's political bureau , which on Aug. 27 had accused the extreme right of using events in the Soviet Union to relaunch an attack on the party . |
| 18 | When you take out the Family Bond the investment will be linked to the Family Assurance Performance Fund , which since its launch in January 1987 has achieved an average annual growth rate of over 19% as at 28th February 1990 . |
| 19 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 20 | Four Eritrean groupings opposed to the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) transitional government in Asmara were reported on Sept. 28 to have formed the Eritrean National Pact Alliance ( ENPA ) , accusing the Front of seeking to establish a dictatorship . |
| 21 | Kasmin has opened in more spacious quarters at 74 Grand St and they are presenting in it only one painting but a big one by Peter Schuyff 6 to 31 October while Hirschl & Adler Modern have abandoned the rarefied reaches of upper Madison Ave . |
| 22 | Silicon Valley Group Inc , San Jose and Canon Inc have agreed a 10-year partnership to develop and produce advanced deep ultraviolet step-and-scan photolithography equipment : under the agreement , Silicon Valley Group , which was saved from oblivion with the help of IBM Corp , will retain full ownership of its Micrascan technology , and Canon will license the technology to market in Japan and other Pacific Rim nations , with the exception of Korea . |
| 23 | Jensen 10 has developed an absolute measure of portfolio performance based on the risk premium version of the CAPM : This may be estimated by an ex-post linear regression , where the sum of the error terms is expected to be zero . |
| 24 | Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year . |
| 25 | Clarks International has unveiled a new range of sports shoes called Cica . |
| 26 | Hitachi Ltd has developed a high-speed text retrieval system for the company 's 3050 Unix workstations . |
| 27 | Hitachi Ltd has developed an automatic high-speed retrieval technique for video pictures , which is designed to run on a workstation . |
| 28 | Louis XIV had promised the dying James II in September 1701 to recognise James 's son as ‘ King of England , as he surely will be ’ and the 13-year-old boy was that month duly proclaimed in France as King James III of England and VIII of Scotland . |
| 29 | In March he was summoned north by the news that the negotiations with Louis VII had reached a crucial stage . |
| 30 | And in encouraging the biblical movement , Pius XII had made an indirect contribution to liturgical renewal of equal significance . |