Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 2 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 3 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 4 | They shuffled off , Mrs Stead-Carter brisker than the others , Miss Poraway waiting to say good-bye . |
| 5 | They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed , including live radio coverage of the talks . |
| 6 | In what was widely described as the worst civil unrest since independence , rioting erupted in Bamako , the capital , on Jan. 21 after the police banned two anti-government demonstrations demanding political reforms and the introduction of multiparty democracy . |
| 7 | Milongo went into hiding , but emerged on Jan. 21 after the troops opened fire the previous day on about 2,000 people demonstrating in support of him , killing five . |
| 8 | The PDC had previously threatened to leave the administration on Jan. 31 if the government was not opened to other political parties , and party officials described the change of stance as a gesture of goodwill in response to continuing negotiations . |
| 9 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 10 | Jay gags , this is where love has brought me , rooting through the bins like a vagrant , looking for a sheet of high-gloss photographic paper and a bad profile shot of Lucy smaller than a postage stamp . |
| 11 | The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) . |
| 12 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 13 | They gained little out of the nets in Jamaica and have not been able to face any bowling since Tuesday other than the spinners and gentle medium-pacers . |
| 14 | No further progress was made on Jan. 31 , 1990 , and the North indicated that it would only attend a meeting set for March 7 if the Team Spirit exercises were called off . |
| 15 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 16 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 17 | 1990 is a good time for a Zeppelin retrospective since a new generation has grown up without all the negative associations that the band once had . |
| 18 | PETER CHAPPLE-HYAM said yesterday that Rodrigo de Triano , a disappointing fourth in Saturday 's Singer & Friedlander Greenham Stakes at Newbury , will miss the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 2 if the ground is at all soft . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the discussions broke down in acrimony on May 22 after the Japanese delegation raised the issue of a Japanese woman allegedly abducted by North Korean agents 13 years earlier . |
| 20 | To that end , the Sandinistas will drop their earlier insistence on a firm deadline of December 30 if a UN , or OAS-supervised demobilisation , is making discernible headway in disarming or relocating the rebels , the diplomats said . |
| 21 | Peebles Hydro in February 1993 provided the venue for a workshop in ‘ Managing Change ’ ; a workshop that was ‘ tailor-made ’ and facilitated by staff from the Office for Public Management . |
| 22 | The directive applies only to objects illegally exported after 1 January 1993 unless the member state wishes to extend its obligations . |
| 23 | Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’ |
| 24 | The IMF had suspended lending to the Philippines in July 1991 after the Aquino government had failed to meet various fiscal targets [ see p. 38769 ] . |
| 25 | An estimated 70,000 public-sector workers went on strike on May 10 after the government had unilaterally revoked the Civil Service Law , which protected the rights of public-sector workers . |
| 26 | On May 29 he brought forward his proposed departure date from Oct. 31 to July 31 after the Cabinet confirmed that the bank 's vice-president , Helmut Schlesinger , 66 , would succeed him and that Hans Tietmeyer , 59 , would be vice-president . |
| 27 | However , in a rare display of unity , the country 's four main opposition parties — the Social Democratic Party of Japan ( SDPJ ) , the Komeito ( Clean Government ) Party , the Japanese Communist Party ( JSP ) and the Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) — threatened to disrupt the special Diet session scheduled to begin on Aug. 5 unless a full legislative inquiry was undertaken . |
| 28 | Judith Ward , 43 , serving a life sentence for Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) activities , was freed by the UK Court of Appeal on May 11 after the Court found her convictions to be " unsafe and unsatisfactory " . |
| 29 | Nagumo raised the ‘ Z ’ battle flag of the rising sun on December 4 as the task force neared the launch point , some 230 miles north east of Pearl Harbor , where the fleet halted . |
| 30 | Mexico severed its relations with the USSR in January 1930 after the Comintern had made a clumsy and ill-judged bid to exploit the uncertainty caused by a right-wing rebellion against the portes Gil government ( see pages 39–40 ) . |