Example sentences of "[noun] marked the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bonior-Hoyer contest marked the fourth occasion in the last five years on which the Democrats had chosen a senior leader . |
| 2 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 3 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 4 | The shift from family ownership to full stockmarket-listings marked the first time when the owners of American firms ceased to manage them . |
| 5 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 6 | The requirement of a PhD for an academic post marked the early professionalisation of social science . |
| 7 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 8 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 9 | The 1987 election marked the high noon of the government of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 10 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 11 | A ceremony at Madrid 's only synagogue marked the 500 years since , on March 31 , 1492 , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave Spanish Jews the choice of conversion to Christianity or expulsion under threat of death . |
| 12 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 13 | From here the path is grassy and it is an easy walk to the ruins of Dunseverick Castle , which in prehistoric times marked the northern end of Ireland 's oldest road , from where the Celts crossed to and from Scotland . |
| 14 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 15 | Labour MPs defied party orders to abstain , but the end of the debate marked the biggest revolt so far by Conservative MPs in the marathon saga of the Bill 's passage through the Commons . |
| 16 | All major opposition parties voted for the bills , whose adoption marked the first time since 1945 that an opposition bill had been passed in the Upper House . |
| 17 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 18 | Mubarak 's visits in May to Syria and to the Soviet Union marked the full normalization of relations with these two countries [ see p. 37471-72 ] . |
| 19 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 20 | THE tower of the Danish Church at Well Close stood sharp and clear against the clouds , and a line of rooftops and gables marked the long line of Cable Street and Rosemary Lane leading to Little Tower Hill . |
| 21 | They were fully aware , however , both of its stringency and its limitations , for example the uncertainty as to what degree of physical efficiency his nutritional standard could obtain , or what standard of housing marked the upper boundary of deprivation . |
| 22 | The $18,000,000 sale marked the second failure of a commercial bank in the US capital within the past year , the National Bank of Washington having collapsed in 1990 . |
| 23 | This year marked the tenth anniversary of THE FACE , but whereas parties have been thrown to commemorate this occasion , nobody has bothered to hold a ‘ do ’ for the tenth anniversary of the training shoe . |
| 24 | Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects derive directly from their critical campaigns , except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956 , and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for ‘ realism ’ seemed to flow . |
| 25 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 26 | Russia 's success against the Austrians on the southern front marked the high point of her advance , for she was doubly burdened . |