Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 2 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 3 | Although Richard III later reversed the settlement , he apparently did so only as part of his dismantling of Woodville influence and not out of any sense that the disposal of the lands had been inequitable . |
| 4 | Although Richard III later reversed the settlement , he apparently did so only as part of his dismantling of Woodville influence and not out of any sense that the disposal of the lands had been inequitable . |
| 5 | Austria had on Jan. 17 also reimposed a visa restriction for Turkish people , initially for three months . |
| 6 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 7 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 8 | Ivan IV then began the practice of temporarily halting any movement at all during a number of ‘ forbidden years ’ . |
| 9 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 10 | The Macedonian Assembly on Jan. 25 unanimously adopted a declaration of the republic 's sovereignty , and a platform on Yugoslavia 's future structure ; the sovereignty declaration enshrined the right of the Macedonian people to self-determination , including the right to secede from Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | Canada on Jan. 1 formally joined the OAS as its 33rd member , having held observer status since 1972 . |
| 12 | The LSX 5000s also get the multi-processing version of Unix which currently runs on the LSX 6500 line , as well as Unix System Lab 's Tuxedo transaction processing monitor which it uses up there . |
| 13 | July 1971 also marked the retirement of Mr. W.E . |
| 14 | Signifying that the Vatican had accepted the basilica in return for a government undertaking to spend more on health and education , the Pope on Sept. 10 also blessed the foundation stones of a hospital and a Catholic university . |
| 15 | The Guardia Civil routinely checks the yacht register and notes the names of incoming yachts . |
| 16 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 17 | The fires of May 1862 only confirmed the authorities in their antipathy to students . |
| 18 | Mubarak 's private talks with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on May 17 reportedly covered the breakdown in the Middle East peace process , Soviet Jewish emigration , and the current state of relations between Iraq and the UK [ see p. 37332 ] . |
| 19 | Without waiting for a decision by the USSR Supreme Soviet , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 overwhelmingly adopted the Shatalin programme ( itself a revision of a programme originated by the Russian Federation government ) for the republican economy . |
| 20 | The National Assembly on July 18 overwhelmingly approved a bill amending the Constitution and granting the government special powers to combat terrorist crimes . |
| 21 | The CSCE assembly on July 5 also adopted a resolution on the situation in the Dnestr region of Moldova [ see pp. 38877-78 ; 38924 ] demanding " an immediate ceasefire between the sides involved in the conflict , as well as the [ ex-Soviet ] 24th Army 's neutrality and its withdrawal from the Republic of Moldova " . |
| 22 | Leaders of the Serbian minority in Croatia issued a statement on July 25 publicly proclaiming the sovereignty and autonomy of all Croatian Serbs , as well as their right " to determine with whom and under what regime their people will live , and how they will integrate with the other nations in Yugoslavia " . |
| 23 | Saddam Hussein on Sept. 3 formally approved a law legalizing opposition parties and ostensibly ending 23 years of one-party rule ( since the 1968 coup ) . |
| 24 | In a first move of this kind , the government on May 16 formally lodged a request with Syria for the extradition of Alois Brunner , who was alleged to have ordered the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Germany and France . |
| 25 | The Moslem Brotherhood movement in Cairo on May 8 strongly condemned the killings along with " similar outbreaks in recent years " . |
| 26 | The Supreme Court on Sept. 1 unanimously rejected a petition brought by Sirimavo Bandaranaike , leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , challenging Premadasa 's election in December 1988 . |
| 27 | Working in a similar vein but on a grander and more broadly historical scale is Alfred Kren , with exhibitions at his large three-room space at Antwerpenstrasse 42 often following a diptych format . |
| 28 | The Majlis had on May 23 unanimously approved a change in its formal title from the National Consultative Assembly to the Islamic Consultative Assembly . |
| 29 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 30 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |