Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Messerschmitt 262s and Gloster Meteors were used only in limited numbers , this was really the start of a brand new generation of aerial fighting machines . |
| 2 | Athletics was a popular sport before the age of the Oxbridge blue and village cricket was thriving when county cricket was still unknown . |
| 3 | On March 31 it was announced that the Katowice Commercial and Credit Bank had become the first Polish bank to go bankrupt . |
| 4 | John Keegan of the IDA Automotive and Engineering Department said the lesson of the Raybestos Manhattan affair was that , while the people of Ireland supported the IDA , the same people ‘ were not prepared to see an industry right on their doorstep ’ . |
| 5 | Hilary gave a brief report of the VIIth International and Commonwealth Conference on Sport , Physical Education , Recreation and Dance which she had been invited to attend on behalf of the M&D Division of the C.C.P.R. It was held at the University of Queensland , in Brisbane , Australia from 23–28th September , immediately preceding the Commonwealth Games . |
| 6 | A video of the TV news broadcast was shown to employees in the Coventry ballistic and performance composites plant of Courtaulds Aerospace , where the helmet was made . |
| 7 | In the same note he claims that , in some sense , he was ‘ more modern ’ than good Pope John ( he mentions his appearances at the Milan Fair as evidence ) ; and says ‘ perhaps our life is marked by love of our own time , of our world more clearly than by anything else ’ ( ibid . ) |
| 8 | The SaO 2 and pulse rate of patients was monitored by pulse oximetry ( Ohmeda Biox 3700e with reusable finger probe ) . |
| 9 | One fifteen till three fifteen the Blidworth Wow Group are meeting in the Blidworth Social and Welfare Centre to learn more about screen printing . |
| 10 | The project has been arranged by the Liverpool Anti-Racist and Community Arts Association . |
| 11 | The company says the box provides significant improvement in both integer and floating point performance over the Sparcstation 2 and Sun 's new Classic and LX models . |
| 12 | The Hill Samuel plan envisages splitting off the UK naval and avionics businesses and giving shareholders one share in the new company for every share they hold in the existing organisation . |
| 13 | Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , acknowledged in the UK House of Commons on Feb. 16 that the draft was " not ideal " , and that the rate of progress towards democracy in Hong kong would not be " as rapid as people in Hong Kong , or we ourselves , would have liked to see " . |
| 14 | De Klerk also met the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd , the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ( who currently chaired the Organization of African Unity ) , and the Presidents of Zambia , Angola and Mozambique . |
| 15 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited South Africa on March 19 en route to the Namibian independence celebrations [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 16 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 17 | On Dec. 19 , 1989 , Shevardnadze had talks in London with the UK Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , and with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 18 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office responded by " deploring " the remark and calling on the international community " to reject , in the firmest possible way , Iran 's outrageous behaviour " . |
| 19 | On May 19 Petar Beron , the UDF secretary , claimed during a tour of Western countries that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd was preparing a European Community ( EC ) declaration which would rule out assistance for communist governments . |
| 20 | He confirmed that Major had been invited to South Africa and that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd would be visiting shortly . |
| 21 | Mark Lennox-Boyd , Under-Secretary of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , told the UK Parliament on June 11 that the expulsion , linked to complaints that Gladstone had interfered in the elections by entering a polling booth and by registering a complaint with police alleging malpractice and multiple voting , was apparently intended to stifle Gladstone 's criticism of Sri Lanka 's " unsatisfactory human rights record " . |
| 22 | The commissioners were to report to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , after which any recommended changes in the constitution would be voted upon in the Cayman Islands Legislative Assembly . |
| 23 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd arrived in Kenya on Sept. 11 . |
| 24 | Gibraltar was discussed in talks between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in London on Feb. 12 , 1991 , and again during Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez 's visit to London in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ] . |
| 25 | The rapid reaction force issue was hotly debated at a meeting of the WEU Assembly in Paris on June 3-6 , when the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd launched a forceful defence of the WEU 's links with NATO and stressed the importance of collaboration with the USA . |
| 26 | Douglas Hurd , the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , however , declared that he did not " believe there is any point , and some danger indeed , in duplicating what NATO does and what the members of NATO decided should be renewed and continued " . |
| 27 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 28 | In April the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd visited both Hong Kong and China [ see p. 38147 ] and in July Francis Maude , Minister of State at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , visited China for talks on Hong Kong . |
| 29 | Broad agreement with the United Kingdom on an extradition treaty covering terrorists was confirmed on Jan. 16 during a visit by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary , Douglas Hurd on Jan. 15-17 . |
| 30 | His remarks , downplayed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office , provoked an uproar among UK right-wing Conservative politicians . |