Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [num] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Brands was established in March 1992 to encompass the separate Barrie and Glenmac companies and the McGeorge and Braemar brands previously managed as part of Pringle . |
| 2 | The decision by the ICCO in March 1990 to extend the 1986 International Cocoa Agreement for a further two years [ see p. 37335 ] encouraged prices to rise . |
| 3 | The meeting in Caracas was the last of a series of five meetings planned in February 1989 to reactivate the Andean Pact . |
| 4 | Four men who allegedly planned demonstrations in December 1989 to commemorate the 1988 flag-raising , were sentenced to terms of between six and 12 years . |
| 5 | Pierre Salinger of ABC News seemed equally unconvinced that it was Libya 's sole responsibility after he went to Tripoli in December 1991 to interview the two accused and to discuss their indictment with Colonel Gaddafi . |
| 6 | France was in enough trouble already with her Vietminh opponents : to the point where her second most senior General , de Lattre de Tassigny , wartime commander of the French First Army , was detached from his command of French and other allied forces in Europe and arrived in Vietnam in December 1950 to assume the dual function of High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief with the immediate responsibility of saving Hanoi . |
| 7 | This was brought about when , somewhere in the ‘ liberated area ’ of the South , a rally was held in December 1960 to establish the National Liberation Front . |
| 8 | Parliament voted to change the Constitution in January 1991 to convert the ceremonial office of president into a directly elected post whose holder would enjoy reserve veto powers over financial provision and senior public service appointments [ see p. 37962 ] . |
| 9 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard , however , dismissed the FMLN 's claim , reaffirming that the army supported the UN peace process initiated in January 1992 to end the 12-year civil war [ see p. 38716 ] . |
| 10 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 11 | Environmental groups criticized a decision made at an ITTC meeting in Yokohama , Japan , in November 1990 to approve the continued logging of important forests in Malaysia and the Amazon basin [ for November 1989 meeting see p. 37054 ] . |
| 12 | The LSE group ( which was set up in October 1990 to support the Irish students ' campaign and to campaign for abortion rights for women in England and Ireland ) will be organising a further picket on that day to highlight this fundamental attack on Irish women 's right to choose . |
| 13 | All political detainees were freed in August 1989 to mark the sixth anniversary of Thomas Sankara 's military coup in 1983 [ see p. 32482 ] . |
| 14 | In no recent case has the Court of Appeal gone further in its attempt to control trade union activity than in the dispute over the Government 's suddenly announced decision in April 1989 to abolish the National Dock Labour Scheme . |
| 15 | In June 1990 a political co-ordination and economic integration agreement was signed with Argentina ; Fujimori visited Japan in July 1990 and again in April 1991 to attend the annual conference of the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) in Nagoya [ see p. 38144 ] ; Fujimori also visited China in April 1991 . |
| 16 | In this context the application by the Conservative MEPs in April 1991 to join the European People 's party ( which is dominated by the German Christian Democrats ) and its official endorsement have given rise to concern . |