Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government promised in February 1991 to continue with the sale of state assets . |
| 2 | Attempts in January 1991 to rush through the privatization of the banking sector had met with legal objections [ see pp. 38007 ] , but two public-sector banks had been privatized , in January and August . |
| 3 | Iraqi aircraft overflew Tehran and the holy city of Qom in January 1984 to demonstrate to the Iranian leadership that no part of Iran , except remote towns like Mashhad , was beyond their reach . |
| 4 | Two bodies were set up in October 1990 to press for the introduction of multiparty democracy and the convening of a national conference on the country 's political future . |
| 5 | The list is long : the government 's decision in August 1985 to lean on the BBC Board of Governors not to show a Real Lives programme featuring interviews with terrorists in Northern Ireland ; its prohibition of broadcasts with terrorist groups in Northern Ireland ; its prosecution of newspapers which revealed the contents of the Spycatcher book of memoirs by a retired MI5 agent , Peter Wright ; its robust dismissal of the dissenting views of senior figures in the Church of England , senior civil servants , and university spokesmen ; its appointments to various quangos and nationalized industries ; and its controls on local government . |
| 6 | ( b ) Greenpeace , the environmental group , planned in September 1983 to row across the Thames , climb Big Ben , and unfurl a banner at the top . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |