Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Far too valuable to be let go , it was resurrected by Edward I who acquired in 1280 the manor of Iham in Icklesham , a plateau overlooking the old site . |
2 | The whole issue was then revived by a consultation paper published by the government in February 1985 which led to further legislation . |
3 | In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations , directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers . |
4 | On 23 May 1991 he absconded for 17 days . |
5 | Since 1987 Bond 's own fortunes had also declined , however , and on Sept. 26 he resigned as chief executive of the Bond Corporation Holdings in an effort to induce his creditors to accept a reconstruction of the beleaguered Bond group . |
6 | A disagreement between the USSR State Bank ( Gosbank ) and the Russian Federation state bank was behind a decree issued by Gorbachev on July 29 which called on republican Supreme Soviets to refrain from passing legislation disrupting the country 's finance and banking system . |
7 | The Milwukee Project broke into the national news , when S. P. Strickland implied , in the July 197 I issue of American Education , that the IQs of children in Heber 's study had been raised by 33 points . |
8 | In May 1955 they responded to Western policies by forming the Warsaw Pact , defining a military structure for Eastern bloc countries similar to NATO 's . |
9 | Charles 's sister Isabella , Edward II 's queen , was still alive , and his two predecessors , Louis X who died in 1316 , and Philip V who died in 1321 , had daughters — Philip had five . |
10 | Charles 's sister Isabella , Edward II 's queen , was still alive , and his two predecessors , Louis X who died in 1316 , and Philip V who died in 1321 , had daughters — Philip had five . |
11 | The Turkish-Cypriot administration in the northern part of the island rejected as unacceptable a UN Security Council resolution of Oct. 11 which called for both sides to observe the existing framework for a settlement [ as agreed in April 1989 — see p. 36711 ] which envisaged the establishment of a bizonal federal republic . |
12 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
13 | In the first major labour conflict of Menem 's administration , bus drivers began a strike in Buenos Aires on Nov. 7 which spread to other cities on Nov. 8 . |
14 | Lowther was an active parliamentarian , serving on 141 committees during his first decade , during which he was a reliable supporter of the government and received a grant of lands between the tides at St Bees–Whitehaven from Charles II which proved of considerable importance in his local battles . |
15 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
16 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is reportedly finalising a plan to offer up its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and port test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
17 | On April 27th it closed at 73.68 to the D-mark , its lowest level since joining Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism ( ERM ) in 1989 . |
18 | In early April 1937 it rose to 1.6 , so that it was considerably brighter than Polaris . |
19 | On 6 April 1990 he returned to this country , but at Dover he was found to be in possession of cannabis and was arrested . |
20 | On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house , of which the brother also became a secure tenant . |
21 | On 27 March 1791 he wrote in this capacity to William Pitt , first minister , detailing improvements in the impress system . |
22 | That 17 June 1925 he died of heart-failure following pleurisy . |
23 | Between June 1913 and June 1914 she went on ten hunger and thirst strikes . |
24 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
25 | Detailed study of the effects of the use of battlefield nuclear weapons ( notably in the starkly named Nato exercise Carte Blanche of June 1955 which resulted in huge civilian " casualties " ) brought no practical change to allied strategy . |
26 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
27 | The logic here is carried a stage further in s75 of CCA 1974 which applies in three party debtor-creditor-supplier agreements as it allows the debtor a " like claim " against the creditor as he has against the transferor . |