Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Bank of Pakistan on March 22 halted the world-wide sale of foreign exchange bearer certificates . |
| 2 | The National Council of the League passed a resolution in March 1933 urging the Labour party and TUC to arrange " a meeting with the representatives of the Co-op movement , the ILP and the CP for the purpose of proposing to them a basis for United Action " . |
| 3 | In a speech on March 30 to mark the Moslem feast-day of Lailat al-Qadr , President Hosni Mubarak made more direct criticism than previously of " religious fanaticism " which had strayed from the correct teachings of Islam , and " ethnic fanaticism " ( the latter an allusion to attacks against Coptic Christians ) . |
| 4 | Essex beat Nottinghamshire 4–3 to take the Under-21 County Championship title . |
| 5 | The Kirghiz Supreme Soviet on Jan. 22 replaced the republican Council of Ministers with a Cabinet attached to the President . |
| 6 | A report on New Delhi radio on Jan. 30 quoted the Indian Army Chief of Staff , Gen. V. N. Sharma , as saying that his troops were fully prepared to protect Kashmir 's border " at any cost " . |
| 7 | In 1355 Edward III appointed the Black Prince his Lieutenant in Aquitaine , and the prince took a small force there in the autumn of that year . |
| 8 | It was left to Edward III to rebuild the amicable relationship between the Plantagenets and their most prominent Gascon vassal . |
| 9 | In New York the Baths of Caracalla served as the model for Pennsylvania Station and Alexandre Marcel 's designs for Bucharest Central evoked the architectural flights of fancy of Piranesi . |
| 10 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 11 | So therefore was there anything for me as a consumer go along to the theatre , have a back programme that has been sponsored by Hydro Electric to use the bad example . |
| 12 | But the legend never quite died , and two years ago , Hilton International began the painstaking work of reconstruction . |
| 13 | In April 1305 , for example , Edward I requested the English clergy to offer masses and prayers for the soul of Jeanne of Navarre , late queen of Philip the Fair of France , half-sister-in-law of Queen Margaret of England , mother of the future Queen Isabella . |
| 14 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 15 | By the time Ceauşescu first visited the Soviet capital , the new wedding-cake skyscrapers of the University and the Foreign Ministry , along with less outlandish and more uncomfortable blocks of flats , towered over the ancient heart of Muscovy . |
| 16 | The Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia on Jan. 14 annulled the key articles of Slovenia 's July 1990 sovereignty declaration [ see p. 37622 ] on the grounds that they were unconstitutional . |
| 17 | A presidential decree of Jan. 24 established the Russian Federation Ministry of Security ( RFMS ) , on the basis of the Russian Federal Security Agency [ see pp. 38654 ; 38731 ] and the Inter-Republican Security Service , which had been the successor to the USSR KGB [ see p. 38654 ] and had then been incorporated into the Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs , abolished in January as being unconstitutional [ see p. 38731 ] . |
| 18 | FOLLOWING the eighteen months of German victory and triumph in Poland , Scandinavia , the west and south-east of Europe between September 1939 and April 1941 , the next eighteen months from the beginning of the Russian campaign on 22 June 1941 to the German defeat in Stalingrad at the end of January 1943 brought the decisive change in the course of the war and the downturn of Germany 's military fortune . |
| 19 | The representative body of the original Crimean population , the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis [ see p. 38302 ] , issued a statement on May 12 denouncing the Crimean vote but also criticizing the autonomy granted by Ukraine to the Crimea , as all existing structures excluded the Tatar nation . |
| 20 | An emergency Arab League summit , finally held in Cairo on Aug. 10 to discuss the Iraqi invasion , passed a seven-point resolution denouncing the " Iraqi aggression against " and annexation of Kuwait , and calling for an immediate withdrawal and the deployment of " Arab forces " to help Saudi Arabia and other states defend against " foreign aggression " . |
| 21 | The opposition New Democratic Party , led by Kim Dae Jung , and the tiny Democratic Party , headed by Lee Ki Taek , merged on Sept. 10 to form the Democratic Party , to be headed jointly by the two leaders . |
| 22 | A human rights report published by the US State Department in late January 1991 criticized the Chinese government 's record , and estimated that 1,000 people had been sentenced to prison or re-education since the Tiananmen Square crackdown . |
| 23 | Parliament voted to change the Constitution in January 1991 to convert the ceremonial office of president into a directly elected post whose holder would enjoy reserve veto powers over financial provision and senior public service appointments [ see p. 37962 ] . |
| 24 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 25 | This was brought about when , somewhere in the ‘ liberated area ’ of the South , a rally was held in December 1960 to establish the National Liberation Front . |
| 26 | A Landsat TM image of Leicestershire recorded on a cloud-free day in July 1984 constitutes the basic data source . |
| 27 | Four more of the cartel 's prominent leaders had surrendered to the authorities on July 4 bringing the total number in custody to 13 , including the cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 28 | A century later a royal charter of July 1412 gave the municipal authorities of Reims the sole right to appoint courtiers and expressly mentioned that Champagne wines formed the city 's prime source of trade . |
| 29 | The former England international slammed the new rules as ‘ crazy ’ after his side threw away a three-goal lead . |
| 30 | The Senate voted by 53 to 45 on July 17 to increase the annual pay of senators by $23,200 to $125,100 in exchange for the prohibition of its members accepting honoraria for speeches to special interest groups . |