Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The three principal figures in his demonology proved to be the Shah , Israel and the United States , and in a sermon against this trio in March 1963 he had done much to trigger the disturbances of that summer and the process that led to his banishment to Najaf in Iraq .
2 When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was .
3 In December 1991 he refused to sign those parts of the founding charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States that guarantee respect for human rights .
4 When our chairman , Richard Newcombe , and I visited the N.R.M. York in July 1992 we arranged to have several documents , articles etc. photo-copied for the Society .
5 In December 1959 they decided to do another 3,000-mile passage to Barbados across the Atlantic .
6 The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order .
7 By June 23rd he had found some , and took off to fly the bag to Balsley in his hospital .
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