Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] adopted a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 19 June the Internal Market Council formally adopted a directive amending the Second Company Law Directive ( Directive 77/91 ) . |
| 2 | After weeks of delay , the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Dec. 20 condemning Israeli conduct in the occupied territories . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on May 24 calling on Israel to refrain from further deportations and to " ensure the safe and immediate return of all those deported " . |
| 4 | On Jan. 23 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution imposing an arms embargo on Somalia , and urging all parties to end hostilities . |
| 5 | The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Jan. 21 demanding that Libya agree to extradite to the United States or United Kingdom those accused of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in which 270 people died [ see pp. 36409-10 ] . |
| 6 | Based on a solvent extraction plant in the Unilever oil mill at Erith , Minton deliberately adopted a style of drawing , physical and direct , that invites the viewer imaginatively to travel through and around the fantastical scene . |
| 7 | A week later parliament formally adopted a decree permitting the establishment of political parties , and the party was registered the following day . |
| 8 | Delegates also adopted a resolution appealing to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation to withdraw the forces of the former Soviet Union from Baltic territory . |
| 9 | On Oct. 23 , the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution ( 45/7 ) calling for international co-operation in promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and in the application of measures to strengthen the safety of nuclear installations . |
| 10 | For their part , the British cultural materialists quickly adopted a name which tactfully removes the suggestion of Marxism as such . |
| 11 | In the face of continuing failure to reach any agreement on the future of Czechoslovakia , the federal government unanimously adopted a resolution pledging itself to submit draft proposals for the legislative and executive authority to the republican and federal parliaments . |
| 12 | First , because it marks the date on which Moscow officially adopted a policy of collaboration between national communist parties and bourgeois political parties in an effort to halt the rise of fascism . |