Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In March 1980 the state began to react to local concern . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | By March 1985 the figure had fallen to 21 per cent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At 31 March 1993 the company had 12 members who are the directors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wolves 1 Middlesbrough 2 THE final 25 minutes of this nerve-wracking game must have been as dramatic as any in Middlesbrough 's history . |
| 11 | On March 2 the trial of 21 police and Securitate officers began in Timisoara . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | SIR — In answer to Martyn Harris 's recent suggestion that the tie was a passing fashion fad , may I point out that on March 30 the tie celebrated its 106th birthday , and its popularity is as high as ever . |
| 14 | On March 30 the Dnestr republic 's Supreme Soviet condemned the emergency decree and urged measures to ensure the ( Dnestr ) republic 's security " including using the 14th Army stationed in the republic as a guarantor of its citizens ' safety " . |
| 15 | On March 30 the Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning , Gerrit Viljoen , gave further details of the government 's plans for the constitution-making body . |
| 16 | Gen. Emile Lahud , C.-in-C. of the Lebanese Army , announced on March 30 the opening of the port road between West and East Beirut , in what was seen as a conciliatory gesture towards the Maronite Christians supporting President Hrawi . |
| 17 | In the reign of Edward VI the income of the Court of Wards had averaged £11,000 per annum , rising to more than £15,000 per annum under Mary . |
| 18 | Under Edward VI the war cost a further £1,387,000 , to which parliamentary taxes contributed only a small fraction . |
| 19 | In Jan. 1829 the company had asked a second time if Lady le Fleming might not offer some assistance in view of the great expense of development work . |
| 20 | Also on Jan. 2 the currency was devalued by 31.5 per cent from US$1.00=6,500 zloty to $1.00=9,500 zloty . |
| 21 | On Jan. 2 the body of 17-year-old Andrés Arturo Gutiérrez Maya , who had confessed his responsibility for the March 1990 murder of Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa , the presidential candidate of the left-wing Patriotic Union party ( UP ) [ see p. 37312 ] , was found , along with that of his father , in an abandoned car in Medellín . |
| 22 | On the evening of Jan. 22 the congress voted to endorse abolition of the LCY 's constitutionally guaranteed leading role in society . |
| 23 | On Jan. 30 the government also announced that it was sending to Israel eight launchers for Patriot missiles ( equipped to deter aircraft rather than Scud missiles ) , eight " sniffer " vehicles for chemical warfare detection , 50 similar vehicles from the former East German army and a commitment to provide two submarines subject to approval by the relevant parliamentary committees . |
| 24 | On Jan. 30 the government also decided to send two squadrons of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Turkey . |
| 25 | Chissano promulgated on Jan. 30 the country 's Law on Political Parties , unanimously passed earlier in the month by the Assembly of the Republic , which provided the legal foundation for the establishment of a multiparty state . |
| 26 | On Jan. 30 the JNA once again enraged Croats by ordering the arrest of Croatia 's Defence Minister , Col.-Gen . |
| 27 | On Jan. 30 the programme 's director , Lt.-Gen. |
| 28 | On Jan. 30 the opposition Labour Party informally endorsed Likud plans to hold elections on June 23 . |
| 29 | On Jan. 30 the violence took a new turn with a report of a direct confrontation between Albanians and Serbs in the village of Kosovska Vitina . |
| 30 | Nov' 1993 The Queen 's Speech will broadly reveal the content of the Bill for local government reform |