Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austria had on Jan. 17 also reimposed a visa restriction for Turkish people , initially for three months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | July 1971 also marked the retirement of Mr. W.E . |
| 4 | The National Assembly on July 18 overwhelmingly approved a bill amending the Constitution and granting the government special powers to combat terrorist crimes . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The Majlis had on May 23 unanimously approved a change in its formal title from the National Consultative Assembly to the Islamic Consultative Assembly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |
| 10 | Ibrahim Babangida , who had in October 1989 severely restricted the electorate 's choice by dissolving 13 political parties , sanctioning instead the creation of the SDP and NRC [ see p. 36968 ] . |
| 11 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 12 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) on Nov. 4 narrowly won a by-election for a seat in the upper chamber of the Diet for the conservative Aichi prefecture , the home region of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 13 | As the TUC would not negotiate with the NUWM this logically implied an end to the Movement which finally dissolve on the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 14 | A special conference of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) on Dec. 3 unanimously endorsed a proposal made by President Daniel arap Moi to repeal Section 2A of the Constitution , which stipulated that KANU was the only legal political party . |
| 15 | In terms of political influence and popular appeal , April 1934 probably marked the zenith of Fascism in England . |
| 16 | James II even issued a Country Jacobite declaration in April 1693 , promising to do " more for their Constitution , than the most renowned of our Ancestors " , by instituting free elections and frequent Parliaments , and by allowing Parliament to determine the limits of his dispensing power . |
| 17 | Led by Dimas Tigrillo ( " Wildcat " ) , the re-contras had on June 13 forcibly occupied the town of San José Bocay , 250 km north of Managua , to publicize their demands , among which were the restructuring and integration of contras into the predominantly Sandinista police force in the north , and the removal of Humberto Ortega from his post . |