Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10 March 1736 the Revd James Clegg , a Nonconformist minister and apothecary from Chinley in the heart of the Peak District , noted in his diary : ‘ An ancient man came for advice and brought a water [ a urine sample ? ] from beyond Southwell in Nottinghamshire , on foot , about 36 miles ’ ; no doubt he returned the same way . |
| 2 | [ In 1931 Andrew Mellon was accused by Congressman Louis McFadden of cheating on his 1931 income tax return and in March 1934 the Roosevelt administration duly announced that it would seek criminal tax evasion charges for $1.3 million . |
| 3 | In March 1986 a BBC monitor report told of demonstrations in Tehran by students and others , ostensibly Gulf Arab nationals , protesting against Kuwaiti and Saudi support for the Iraqi war effort . |
| 4 | Basil Blackwell will publish in March 1986 the papers and proceedings of the June 1985 conference on ‘ Natural Resources and the Macroeconomy ’ . |
| 5 | Edward still prevaricated , but at the Parliament of March 1299 the magnates extorted further concessions by the threat of armed force . |
| 6 | In the course of his review of the authorities , Walton J. made extensive citations from Baynton v. Morgan , 22 Q.B.D. 74 a case he described , 269 E.G. 41 , 45 , as ‘ completely decisive of the present case , ’ and also cited the passage from the judgment of Younger L.J . |
| 7 | On 1 March 1198 the Cologne assembly met . |
| 8 | The usual proxy for the market in the UK is the FT All Share Index and this may also be found in the r m S. For October-December 1986 the return on the market was 28 per cent and the standard deviation of this was 14 per cent . |
| 9 | In March 1980 the state began to react to local concern . |
| 10 | He was perhaps married twice for on 29 March 1799 a George Bullock was married to Elizabeth Mansell , a pawnbroker 's widow in Birmingham . |
| 11 | The government introduced in Parliament on March 12 a policy paper and tabled draft legislation intended to repeal 187 laws and innumerable regulations enforcing white ownership of 87 per cent of South Africa 's land . |
| 12 | On March 12 the government announced the further postponement of the presidential elections [ see p. 38754 ] to allow candidates sufficient time to campaign throughout the country . |
| 13 | On March 12 the UN Security Council responded to Aziz by reiterating that Iraq had " not yet complied fully and unconditionally " with Gulf ceasefire resolutions and that it " must immediately take the appropriate actions in this regard " . |
| 14 | On March 22 a UN technical mission arrived in Mogadishu . |
| 15 | On March 22 the US Senate approved a non-binding Concurrent Resolution which acknowledged that " Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of Israel " . |
| 16 | Sanctions remained in force , although on March 22 the Security Council 's sanctions committee did announce that humanitarian aid would be approved for Iraq under the terms of the original sanctions resolution ( 661 of Aug. 6 , 1990 — see p. 37639 ] in view of the circumstances of the threat of famine and epidemic . |
| 17 | On March 22 the captain of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez , Joseph Hazelwood , was acquitted of three major charges and convicted of one misdemeanour in connection with the oil spill caused by his vessel off the Alaskan coast in March 1989 , the worst in US history [ see pp. 36541 , 36606 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ Gilly , give Maime Trotter half a chance , OK ? |
| 19 | By March 1985 the figure had fallen to 21 per cent . |
| 20 | From September until the end of March 1993 the organisation will be following through a plan of restructuring and its constant search to find future funding for both its core activities and to develop further aspects of its collection and educational work . |
| 21 | At 31 March 1993 the company had 12 members who are the directors . |
| 22 | From March 1993 the project and construction management activities of Wimpey Construction Management will operate in the UK under the Grove name as the Management Division of GROVE PROJECTS . |
| 23 | Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 24 | The next morning , this young dealer arrived at Tudorbury half an hour early . |
| 25 | On March 2 the trial of 21 police and Securitate officers began in Timisoara . |
| 26 | On March 2 the US President George Bush vetoed a bill which sought to link China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trade status with " substantial progress " on human rights , weapons proliferation and trade imbalances . |
| 27 | March 2 The UN Security Council passes Resolution 686 on a ceasefire in the Gulf war [ see p. 38116 ] . |
| 28 | On March 2 the UN General Assembly approved applications for membership from eight former Soviet republics and San Marino , bringing the UN 's total membership to 175 . |
| 29 | On March 2 the Ständerat ( upper house of the Federal Assembly ) approved legislation abolishing the death penalty for wartime offences . |
| 30 | On March 2 the Bank of Spain assumed responsibility for Banco Ibercorp , the merchant bank of Ibercorp , which was in deep financial difficulties and had failed to find a buyer . |