Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] commonwealth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the effect of a recent House of Lords ' ruling that Spicer & Oppenheim , the former auditors of Atlantic Computers , must hand over further documentation to the administrators of Atlantic 's parent company , British & Commonwealth Holdings plc . |
| 2 | British & Commonwealth Holdings especially favoured smaller search firms ; they had received generally good service and quick results from those they had used , and appreciated the personal contact and cheaper price . |
| 3 | [ HOUSE OF LORDS ] BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH HOLDINGS PLC . |
| 4 | [ ON APPEAL FROM IN RE BRITISH & COMMONWEALTH HOLDINGS PLC . |
| 5 | My Lords , on 1 September 1988 , British & Commonwealth Holdings Plc . |
| 6 | Do not let tax issues drive the deal -eg British & Commonwealth loan notes may have deferred CGT but they were ultimately a disaster for vendors who took them . |
| 7 | On 1st July 1916 at 7.30 a.m. , to the sound of exploding mines and a massive artillery barrage , British and Commonwealth forces attempted to storm these low hills around Thiepval . |
| 8 | Egypt and North Africa had proved how swiftly modern mobile forces could overrun quite considerable distances , and in the summer months of 1942 , the British and Commonwealth forces were again back in Egypt , relying on overstretched supply lines . |
| 9 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 10 | Only in 1972 did the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum , alerted by ‘ the increasing level of violence in Northern Ireland ’ realise that , since 1945 , there had been a ‘ conspicuous absence of any contemporary art recording the involvement of British and Commonwealth forces in numerous small wars . ’ |
| 11 | Only in 1972 did the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum , alerted by ‘ the increasing level of violence in Northern Ireland ’ realise that , since 1945 , there had been a ‘ conspicuous absence of any contemporary art recording the involvement of British and Commonwealth forces in numerous small wars . ’ |
| 12 | Against heavy German resistance , the British and Commonwealth forces advanced along the north , or left , flank , while the two American armies under Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley pushed forward on the south , or right , flank . |
| 13 | Yet it was privately admitted in Washington that American interests might suffer if British and Commonwealth forces ultimately failed to contain the Indonesian threat , and in December 1964 both governments agreed to acknowledge the importance of each other 's military efforts " in support of legitimate governments in South-East Asia , particularly in Malaysia and South Vietnam " . |
| 14 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 15 | Holligan , Liverpool 's British and Commonwealth light-welter champion , has won all his 18 contests , but has only half the experience of Rojas , who has lost 10 of his 39 bouts . |
| 16 | With Lewis 's share likely to be around £5.5m for the fight of his life , the British and Commonwealth champion 's handers would have to break the bank to shift the fight from Las Vegas - but they have n't entirely given up hope . |
| 17 | With Lewis 's share likely to be around £5.5m , the British and Commonwealth champion 's handlers would have to break the bank to shift the challenge from Las Vegas . |
| 18 | dissenting ) allowing an appeal by the respondents , the Joint Administrators of British and Commonwealth Holdings Plc. , from the judgment and order dated 24 July 1991 of Hoffmann J. setting aside an order dated 29 April 1991 of Mr. Registrar Scott ordering production of certain documents by the appellants to the respondents pursuant to section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 19 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
| 20 | HORACE NOTICE , a former British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion , was one of four men remanded in custody last night for a week accused of rioting at an acid house party . |
| 21 | In the first case in which such guidance was received , the jury returned with a new British and Commonwealth record of £1.5 million , against an author who had attacked Lord Aldington as a " war criminal " over his role in the forcible repatriation of Cossacks to their deaths at the end of the second World War . |
| 22 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 23 | Liverpool 's Holligan retained his British and Commonwealth light-welterweight titles after barely outpointing the brave Manchester man in the same ring to win the title 15 months ago . |
| 24 | HENRY WHARTON , the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion , is expected to enter hospital within the next few days to undergo an operation on his troublesome right hand . |
| 25 | February 1942 , which involved the surrender of sixty thousand British and Commonwealth troops . |
| 26 | April 1945 ; British and Commonwealth troops , having rescued Venice continued to arrive at Trieste by the beginning of May , meeting the Yugoslav troops of Tito , in the hills above that City , and fighting against the Germans effectively ceased in Italy . |
| 27 | Gradually mobilizing the vast resources of the nation , the full might of US arms , backed up by British and Commonwealth contingents , was directed against Japan . |
| 28 | BOXING : Colin McMillan , the British and Commonwealth featherweight champion , is set for a world title chance if he beats American Steve Thibodeaux at Dagenham on March 25 . |
| 29 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 30 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion , Billy Schwer , is confident of a successful first defence of his titles against challenger Paul Burke at Wembley 's Grand Hall tonight . |