Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only one domestic index futures contract for the London Stock Exchange ( the FT-SE 100 ) , the creation of synthetic index futures contracts for the UK is not yet possible . |
| 2 | On 26 June 1991 LIFFE launched a futures contract on the ISE 's new Eurotrack-100 Index . |
| 3 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 4 | As one of its responses to the International Statistical Year , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development had commissioned a comparative study of national R and D efforts , based on an officially agreed definition of research and development activity ; the so-called ‘ Frascati definition ’ , named after one of a number of pleasant resorts favoured by the OECD for conferences . |
| 5 | Diamant A rockets also placed into orbit three satellites developed by the CNES . |
| 6 | The Middle East peace talks continued during May with a series of multilateral meetings arranged at the Moscow round in January [ see p. 38740 ; see p. 38885 for fifth round of bilateral talks held in Washington in late April ] . |
| 7 | The leaflets are being distributed to hotels and guest houses registered with the Northumbria Tourism Board and to travel trade representatives and coach operators throughout Britain . |
| 8 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 9 | The neglected , but instructive , sub-text to the passions aroused by the BBC director-general 's financial affairs is the ambitious and contentious agenda of reforms over which he has presided in the run-up to the renewal of the corporation 's charter . |
| 10 | Projects undertaken by the Overholland Foundation have , during its brief existence , been characterised by high standards and a close attention to detail . |
| 11 | The question of whether the offence under section 51 should be triable summarily only is controversial , for reasons examined by the C.L.K.C. Since magistrates often imprison persons convicted of assaulting policemen , but not of simple assault , the propriety of excluding jury trial seems questionable . |
| 12 | ICE hockey clubs competing in the Heineken League promotion play-offs this weekend are in some confusion over what format the league ladder will take next year . |
| 13 | To illustrate the point let me cite the example of Yorkshire , where the majority of the county 's clubs competing in the Courage Leagues have no opportunity of taking part in a national knock-out competition . |
| 14 | All the signs pointed to an Ian Ferguson thunderbolt but as the defensive wall braced itself , Hateley stepped forward to find the far corner of the net . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 16 | Lansink is the only rider who has jumped double clear rounds in the first four contests designated for the Everest Challenge . |
| 17 | None of the sixteen taxes endured by the Nikol'skaia peasants was aimed at capital held in the form of equipment . |
| 18 | The proposals conformed with the EPRDF 's commitment , as published in February 1991 , to " reorganize the administrative structure of the country on a new and democratic basis " in order " to give the nations … wide autonomy to administer their internal affairs on the basis of federation , confederation etc . " . |
| 19 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 20 | Thirty-five ( one-third ) of the visual representations ( photographs , drawings , etc. ) identified in the total series of 114 rape cases referred to the Brixton gang ( most of the remaining two-thirds were about The Fox ) . |
| 21 | One of the largest repatriation programmes undertaken by the UN began on March 30 when 527 out of an estimated 380,000 Cambodian refugees living in camps along the Thai-Cambodian border were transported to a temporary reception site in the western town of Sisophon . |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
| 23 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 24 | Nine deputies resigned from the SDPP in November and December 1989 in protest against the expulsion from the party of six Kurdish deputies who had attended a Kurdish conference in Paris in October [ see p. 36988 ] . |
| 25 | Fourteen Afar deputies resigned from the RPP on Dec. 31 , having criticized government leaders for " placing the defence of their privileges above the defence of the interests of the Djiboutian nation " and for continuing to insist that FRUD fighters were foreigners , not Djiboutian nationals . |
| 26 | It fully condemns acts such as this , and acts committed by the Ulster Freedom Fighters , such as attacking Belfast taxi drivers . |
| 27 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 28 | By far the most popular parts of the speech , to go from the reactions reported by the SD , were those in which Hitler , claiming new plenipotentiary powers , attacked judges and civil servants and threatened draconian measures to root out corruption and parasitic privilege whatever the rank and status of those involved . |
| 29 | LIFESPAN responds by allocating an SSR identifier which should be noted by the user as it is required for reference in other operations relating to the SSR . |
| 30 | According to eyewitness accounts reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , about twenty per cent of the buildings and the frescoes of Budhas and Bodhisattvas that they contained have been destroyed in the process of so-called modernisation . |