Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 2 | LOGIE Kirk and the University of Stirling celebrated the 25th anniversary of their special relationship in a church service this spring . |
| 3 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 4 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 5 | He wrote a letter dated 20th February , 1842 , to Schwabe , his publisher in Dusseldorf saying that ‘ I have now after 18 months of work finished the sixth edition of my Organon , the most nearly perfect of all . ’ |
| 6 | A steady stream of visitors attended the second Crime Prevention Day organised by Sedgefield Village Crime Prevention Panel in conjunction with the police in Sedgefield Parish Hall on Saturday . |
| 7 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 8 | It is therefore extremely encouraging that , only this morning , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State took the 250,000th call on the single market hotline — and he could give the answer to the caller 's question . |
| 9 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 10 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 11 | On Dec. 20 , 1989 , the Council of Ministers heard the second reading of the draft budget for 1990 . |
| 12 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 13 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 14 | The non-parties were able to mobilise and use the institutional platform of the United Nations ; the passing of General Assembly Resolution 38/77 calling for the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive factual study of Antarctica authorised a third party investigation into the regime ; there were a number of third parties making similar claims rather than a single , isolated State ; they placed the issue on the agenda of other international institutions ; Article 12 ( 2 ) of the Treaty provides for a Conference thirty years after its entry into force ; and the acceptance of the common heritage concept in other contexts gave legitimacy to third party claims . |
| 15 | However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 16 | THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped . |
| 17 | Joint sessions of JPs constituted the second tier of the new judicial administration . |