Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was put right in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII who left ten days out of the year . |
| 2 | On Jan. 24 she announced further proposals which envisaged lifting the state 's foreign trade monopoly , full convertibility for the East German Mark by 1992 , the lowering of tax rates , and the introduction of a commercial banking system . |
| 3 | Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten . |
| 4 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 5 | The government of the Solomon Islands on Sept. 15 lodged a strong diplomatic protest with the government of Papua New Guinea in response to a seaborne raid by Papuan commandos on Sept. 12 which left two people dead . |
| 6 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 7 | The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives . |
| 8 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 9 | On 17 July 1054 he consecrated Godric abbot of Winchcombe , having held the abbey himself since the death of Abbot Godwin in 1053 . |
| 10 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 11 | In February 1946 he appointed thirty-two cardinals from all parts of the world , and twenty-four more in 1953 . |
| 12 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 13 | Unconditional freedom for those of the Cape Town Sixteen who received suspended sentences and the lifting of the severe restrictions placed upon them . |
| 14 | The need for " dialogue " nevertheless became the keynote in pronouncements by Prime Minister Sid-Ahmed Ghozali , and on July 11 he invited all opposition groups to attend a national conference at the end of the month " to define the framework and forms of dialogue " . |
| 15 | In January 1884 he became senior mathematics master at Blairlodge School , Stirlingshire ; in January 1885 he was appointed mathematical master ( later head of mathematics ) at King Edward 's High School , Birmingham , where he remained until his retirement in March 1920 . |
| 16 | Koirala announced a new Cabinet on May 29 which included one woman ( Sailja Acharya ) and only one person who not been elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Basu Dev Risal ) . |
| 17 | He became the instrument of the resentment of the shocked conservatism of the Audiencia and chapter of Oviedo ; in May 1809 he sent fifty grenadiers to dissolve the Junta . |
| 18 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 19 | On February 27th he told Conservative councillors that he wanted a ‘ renaissance of local government ’ . |
| 20 | In October and December 1930 he held two dinners to promote the idea , the guests including Ramsay MacDonald , Lloyd George , Lord Reading , Winston Churchill , and Sir Robert Horne . |
| 21 | In February 1844 he married eighteen-year-old Mary Anne , daughter of John Kilby , farmer . |
| 22 | The prospectus was issued to coincide with results for the year to May 1 which showed pre-tax profits up 178pc at £7.8m from £2.8m on turnover of £78.6m . |
| 23 | On 22 December 1631 he became non-resident governor of Jersey , and through the 1630s sat on several administrative commissions . |
| 24 | The perambulations of the other forests were as little to the liking of the regents , and in December 1219 they ordered fresh perambulations to be made in all the forest counties . |
| 25 | For sure , the eighties has already had its riots and can expect more , it has seen insurgent movements for progressive and peaceful life on earth , symbolised by the first women 's embrace of the Greenham Common base in December 1982 which shifted popular consensus against the new generation of nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |
| 27 | I enclose for your interest a copy of Sports Participation in Scotland 1988 which gives overall participation rates , outdoor and indoor , and individual figures for those sports where the sample size was adequate . |
| 28 | In an attempt to remedy this the SLORC introduced new banking laws in July 1990 which allowed foreign banks to open branches in Myanma . |
| 29 | In January 1990 it included 5,953 names , of whom 4,141 were men . |
| 30 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |