Example sentences of "[pn reflx] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 2 | To achieve this vision for the ES , we have set ourselves the following key aims for our organisation : |
| 3 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 4 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 5 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 6 | BORIS BECKER last night gave himself the perfect 25th birthday present , demolishing Jim Courier to become ATP world champion and end a disappointing year in triumph . |
| 7 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 8 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 9 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 10 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 11 | At Cannington itself the first informal session was so full that the inquiry organizers told us afterwards they were concerned that the balcony might not be able to sustain the weight . |
| 12 | The celebrant was to be something calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) . |
| 13 | It called itself the European Parliamentary Assembly and symbolically arranged the seating of delegates by political affiliation rather than by nationality . |
| 14 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 15 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 16 | Within Northern Ireland itself the former separate departments operate but all are technically under the jurisdiction of the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 17 | The Lithuanian Communist Party declared its independence from the Soviet CP in December 1989 , and renamed itself the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) in December 1990 [ see p. 37921 ] , but was banned on Aug. 23 , 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] . |
| 18 | The Kaunas branch renamed itself the Lithuanian Conservative Union on March 21 . |
| 19 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 20 | The Bulgarian Communist Party renamed itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party on April 3 , calling the decision a clean break with " the dictatorship of the time before Nov. 10 , 1989 , which was a dictatorship not only over the people , but over the party as well " . |
| 21 | The Bulgarian Social Democrat Party ( BSDP ) had originally called itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party , but redesignated itself as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( non-Marxist ) , at its first national conference held on March 31 in Sofia , thereby ceding the BSP name to be adopted by the BCP [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 22 | The head of a new clandestine 250-member opposition group inside Malawi , which calls itself the United Democratic Party , said Mr Chihana 's return yesterday was ‘ suicide and an unnecessary waste of human life ’ . |
| 23 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 24 | However , the authorities in Serbia on Jan. 13 banned an opposition party calling itself the Serbian National Renewal because of its overtly nationalist programme . |
| 25 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 26 | Now they began to see for themselves the amazing interconnected web of life which links the creatures and plants on Denmark Farm , and the critical role which each link plays in maintaining the chain of existence — the working ecological system . |
| 27 | Or should policy concentrate more on clarifying the goals and outcomes of learning , and on providing the kind of support which will enable schools to identify for themselves the best possible ways of achieving such goals and outcomes ? |
| 28 | She went up to the dormitory , where she found her school friends , anxious and exulting over her delay , grieved and relieved that her sortie had escaped detection ; they gathered round her , perched on the bed , drawing cosily round themselves the striped dusty coarse hooped curtains on their brass poles , and they listened to her story . |
| 29 | For a moment there was silence , as the others asked themselves the same worrying questions . |
| 30 | For each week you are resident in Edinburgh you should allow yourself the following minimum sums of money to cover your expenses . |