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 .
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