Example sentences of "may [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |
| 2 | At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort . |
| 3 | In the early hours of May the fourth Hanger disappeared from a community training camp at Symonds Yat on the Gloucesterhsire / herofrodshire border . |
| 4 | Given the limitations of confiscation in the May the fourth directive , it was to be revealed that the provisions were largely ignored and land was taken . |
| 5 | Indeed argued in his nineteen forty seven document that the May the fourth directive ha dire directive had n't been thorough enough . |
| 6 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 7 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 8 | Erm Now can , can we go back to the May the fourth directive . |
| 9 | Erm h how erm du n no , how many of you looked at the May the fourth directive ? |
| 10 | Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this . |
| 11 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 12 | But , but you need a new set of targets anyway , and somehow you , y y you 've got ta and the May the fourth directive , by returning to land reform is beginning to open up those as possibilities . |
| 13 | Okay so we , we , we 've the May the fourth directive , er we , we , we 've now got the May the fourth directive operational . |
| 14 | Okay so we , we , we 've the May the fourth directive , er we , we , we 've now got the May the fourth directive operational . |
| 15 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 16 | But their two aims conflicted because on the one hand they 're trying to protect production and to allow erm er capit private enterprise and capitalism to develop but on the other hand they 're erm trying to redistribute all the land er because the May the fourth directive was n't going far enough , they , they needed to be more severe upon landlords |
| 17 | the May the fourth directive , after |
| 18 | Is , is , is , yes , is there another element to this though , that what in , in your new more difficult military situation you need to mobilize the mass of support behind you , which er essentially means mobilizing the poor peasants is it possible that within the May the fourth directive , although the poor could have done much better , they need not necessarily do very much better . |
| 19 | I E th there , there is no guarantee within the May the fourth directive that , that the poor do significantly a as a group all do well because th th they , they , they , there 's nothing to guarantee that they all share properly in the fruits of struggle . |
| 20 | Now that 's a bit of a surprise to you in the sense that you believed that ten percent of the population owned eighty percent of the land and therefore this , this kind of erm a a attack on , on the rich was happening through the May the fourth directive , that would 've produced enough to bring everybody up to a reasonable middle peasant status . |
| 21 | So the , the May the fourth directive is not working because it 's not guaranteeing that the poor get enough to bring them up to the middle peasant status which is , is the aim . |
| 22 | I really , I really get the impression that there 's , there 's , it 's incredibly sort of nobody really knows what to do , you know , there 's this big turbulent thing just happening and people are very confused about the whole thing because the M May the fourth directive is n't particularly er it did n't give anybody an absolute guideline , guide to erm what to do . |
| 23 | The May the fourth directive had n't gone far enough , you needed to go beyond that . |
| 24 | And going on from that surely we argue that the May the fourth directive came about or certainly was , was put out as this is what the peasants three times the peasants had demanded land return I E they were in advance of the Party , they were more radical , they , they were , in a way they were saying look this , this rent reduction is not enough we want a much stronger programme , we actually want the land reform . |