Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] and [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct .
2 The last general election to the Rashtriya Panchayat was held in May 1986 and resulted in the election of a number of members opposed to the panchayat system [ see p. 34423 ] .
3 The body emerged in February 1946 and resulted from the actions of Hodge , Rhee and the mysterious M. Preston Goodfellow .
4 Muccio spoke trenchantly to Rhee on 18 January 1950 and warned of the perils of inflation .
5 He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons .
6 In 1955 , Floirat bought the ailing radio station Europe 1 and presided over the company for 30 years , transforming it into one of the country 's most popular stations .
7 Achilles tired and veered towards the stands , seeming to some spectators to carry Pretty Polly wide , but once past she appeared to be set for victory .
8 The defendants admitted the validity of the will of 30 June 1978 but contended that the deceased had duly executed a further testamentary paper being a first codicil on 18 April 1986 and counterclaimed for the pronouncement in solemn form for the codicil .
9 A nationwide auction to swap 514,000 of these shares for vouchers began on April 2nd and closed at the end of the month .
10 Two separate hunger strikes involving a total of eight political prisoners in Rabat and Casablanca ( about 75 km south-west of Rabat ) began in April 1989 and resulted in the death on Aug. 19 of a 28-year-old student , Abdelhak Chbada .
11 Both had escaped to the United Kingdom in June 1940 and worked with the government in exile while regrouping the defeated Norwegian army .
12 Hun Sen and Sihanouk left China together on June 20 and travelled to the Prince 's residence in Pyongyang , North Korea .
13 On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] .
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