Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Rogers will become the acting Treasurer until the Annual General Meeting in March 1980 when a new Treasurer will be elected . |
| 2 | Preparations for unification of the two Yemens , which had received major impetus from the summit meeting in December 1989 following publication of a draft joint constitution [ see p. 37138 ] , moved forward with the opening of the border ( announced on Jan. 22 following a three-day meeting at Prime Ministerial level ) and a visit to Aden , capital of South Yemen ( the People 's Democratic Republic ) , by the President of North Yemen ( the Yemen Arab Republic ) , Col. Ali Abdullah Saleh , on Feb. 18 . |
| 3 | In the worst IRA attack on civilians for five years , eight Protestant workers were killed and five injured on Jan. 17 when a massive bomb destroyed their van at Teebane Cross . |
| 4 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 5 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 6 | Kurds in northern Iraq formed their first government on July 4 following a general election in May [ see p. 38934 ] . |
| 7 | A total of 261 people were killed on July 11 when a Canadian McDonnell Douglas DC-8 carrying Nigerian Moslems back to Sokoto after their Haj pilgrimage , crashed near Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , shortly after take-off . |
| 8 | Thirteen people died and 400 were injured on May 5 when a temporary spectators ' stand collapsed shortly before the start of a football match between Bastia and Olympique Marseille at the Furiani stadium in Bastia , Corsica . |
| 9 | The Constituent Assembly itself was to be dissolved on July 5 when a new constitution was to be published . |
| 10 | Tension was further heightened on May 6 when a young Macedonian soldier was killed by shots from the crowd ( reportedly from a Croatian policeman ) when tens of thousands of Croatians demonstrated outside naval headquarters in the coastal town of Split in protest at a continuing army blockade of Kijevo . |
| 11 | There is a listed monument to the north of the parish , an obelisk erected in 1799 to commemorate December 1795 when a huge meteorite , weighing approximately 56 lbs , fell on that spot near Wold Cottage Farm . |
| 12 | ( See also Norwich City Council v Harvey [ 1989 ] 1 All ER 1180 where a similar clause was held to prevent the imposition of a tortious duty of care on a sub-contractor who was not party to the contract . ) |
| 13 | Opened in May 1989 following a total refurbishment . |
| 14 | The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when a Moorish legion invaded southern Spain in support of General Franco 's attempt to overthrow the socialist-dominated Spanish Republican government . |
| 15 | A general meeting was called for December 1990 when a new constitution was to be adopted . |
| 16 | Mr King , who was sacked from the group 's board in November 1989 following a problematic £629m management buyout eight months earlier , was told by a High Court judge that he had carried out his duties correctly . |
| 17 | The first signs of the new eruption were seen on 23 March 1902 when a rambling party were making an ascent of the volcano . |
| 18 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 19 | The charges arose from events on Feb. 18 when a peaceful rally ended in violence [ see p. 38753 ] . |
| 20 | Fierce protest in the town of Batna , 300 km south-east of Algiers , was triggered on Feb. 4 when a local imam was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment for public order offences . |
| 21 | Construction of a nuclear power station on Belene Island in the Danube was finally suspended on Feb. 15 following a general strike in the nearby town of Svishtov . |
| 22 | The Flag Protection Act had been passed in October 1989 following a Supreme Court decision four months earlier which overturned a similar Texas statute . |
| 23 | No further serious clashes were reported until March 25 when a 90-minute battle in the suburbs of Ashrafieh , Sin el-Fil , Saloumi and Dora , killed 11 people . |
| 24 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 25 | The term ‘ monetary sector ’ dates from August 1981 when a new set of monetary control provisions were introduced . |
| 26 | South Africa ended 21 years of isolation from international cricket on Nov. 8 when a national team received a rapturous welcome on its arrival in India for a series of three one-day matches [ see p. 38318 for readmission to International Cricket Conference ] . |
| 27 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 28 | Jagannath Pahadia resigned as Governor of Bihar in mid-January 1990 following a central government call for the resignation of all governors [ see above ] . |
| 29 | S. K. Bhatnagar resigned as Governor of Sikkim in mid-January 1990 following a central government call for the resignation of all state governors [ see above ] . |
| 30 | Violent confrontations had taken place in Satu Mare on March 15 when Hungarians had attempted to celebrate Hungarian National Day , and in Tirgu Mures on March 16 when a Hungarian-owned pharmacy had allegedly refused to serve Romanians . |