Example sentences of "the [num ord] anniversary [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 13 people were reportedly injured and 90 others arrested following violent confrontations with riot police during ceremonies and demonstrations on Sept. 11 , marking the 17th anniversary of Allende 's death . |
| 2 | According to the Foreign Ministry statement , the former officials were released on April 30 , the 17th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to the communist forces . |
| 3 | To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Elvis ' death last Sunday we 've teamed up with BMG Records in a fabulous £1,300 competition to give away 30 copies of The King Of Rock ‘ n Roll — The Complete ‘ 50s Masters featuring 140 of the King 's classics , including previously unreleased songs . |
| 4 | MARC BOLAN is the subject of a new book published to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his death . |
| 5 | The summit marked the 15th anniversary of the creation of the regional body in Lagos in 1975 [ for list of member states see p. 36991 ] . |
| 6 | A few days later Gorbachev was back on Lenin 's tomb watching the Soviet tanks and legions saluting the 45th anniversary of victory in the second world war . |
| 7 | They also pointed to what they claimed were morale-boosting concessions by the Soviet leadership to the armed forces , notably the promotion of Defence Minister Dmitry Yazov to the rank of Marshal on April 28 , and the holding of a big military parade in Red Square on May 9 to mark the 45th anniversary of the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe . |
| 8 | W H Smith celebrated the 90th anniversary of its bookshop in Paris with a cocktail party on 22nd March , attended by Sir Christopher Mallaby , the British Ambassador to France . |
| 9 | It will be published in May 1993 , following the 90th anniversary of Nin 's birth next month ( 21st February ) . |
| 10 | In the year of the 25th Olympiad and the 90th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Olympic Gold Medallist Eric Liddell , athletics coach Margot Wells , whose husband Allan took the Olympic 100m gold in Moscow , looks at life in the fast lane , in 1924,1980 and now . |
| 11 | The show is intended to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association . |
| 12 | A new fair takes place in London from 5 to 11 May , timed to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association . |
| 13 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 14 | And today is the hundredth anniversary of Erwin Panofsky 's birth , which really could not be ignored . |
| 15 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 16 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 17 | What was surely the last ever Montenegrin ‘ royal event ’ was masterminded by the republic 's new Communist leadership , which has abruptly stopped describing Nicholas as a class enemy , to ride the same wave of popular patriotism and royal fervour which swept Serbia in the recent celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the battle of Kosovo . |
| 18 | The prince unveiled a plaque to mark the 600th anniversary of the swannery , which was founded by Benedictine monks . |
| 19 | The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Reverend Doctor Thomas Bowman Stephenson , founder of the National Children 's Home , the 120th Anniversary of the NCH , and the 80th Birthday of the present Chairman of the NCH , that most beloved personality Viscount Tonypandy , have all been celebrated cleverly in order to raise money for the National Children 's home . |
| 20 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 21 | The Princess Royal , Patron , College of Occupational Therapists , opens the College 's new headquarters , Information & Study Centre at 6-8 Marshalsea Road , London SE1 ; opens the Young Designers ' Centre , The Design Council , 28 Haymarket , London SW1 ; visits the Headquarters of The Special Escort Group at their Barnes Headquarters , London SW13 ; and , this evening , attends a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the knitting frame by William Lee . |
| 22 | In the evening Her Royal Highness attended a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the invention of the Knitting Frame by William Lee . |
| 23 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 25 | Although not a single document had yet been approved , he hoped all would be over by Christmas 1963 , the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent . |
| 26 | 1992 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Henry King , Bishop of Chichester ( 1642– 1669 ) . |
| 27 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 28 | The Kremlin 's Uspensky ( Assumption ) Cathedral was used for a religious service for the first time since 1918 when the 400th anniversary of the Moscow Patriarchate was celebrated on Oct. 12 . |
| 29 | Alison Hardie spoke on ‘ Ji Cheng 's Yuan Ye ( The Craft of Gardens ) in its social setting ’ at a conference on the ‘ Authentic Garden ’ held in Leiden on 8–11 May 1990 to mark the 400th anniversary of the Leiden Botanic Garden . |
| 30 | It is hoped that the church at least will be ready in time for the celebrations of the 800th anniversary of Dresden 's foundation in 2006 . |