Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As head of Section D , he needed to be on call twenty-four hours a day and besides the normal phone had a secure line routed directly to his office . |
| 2 | A republic-wide vote was held on 30 March 1991 in which 90.3 per cent of the population were reported to have taken part , 98.9 per cent of whom expressed support for the restoration of Georgian independence ; following this , on 9 April , the Georgian parliament adopted a further resolution proclaiming the republic a fully independent state ( the act , for the moment , had little practical significance ) . |
| 3 | On Dec. 18 the Georgian parliament issued a statement suspending the second round of Russian-Georgian talks on bilateral relations currently under way in Moscow and recalling Georgia 's delegation . |
| 4 | Cocteau was acute , yet the exaggerated portrait had a curiously prophetic quality . |
| 5 | For the first time in the race 's history the 89–90 race included a Soviet entry ( Fazisi ) and a boat with an all women crew ( Maiden ) . |
| 6 | The Assistant Secretary put a large floppy handbag on the table and took out a small handkerchief . |
| 7 | The Norman Conquest introduced a French-speaking community and aspects of Norman French culture into England . |
| 8 | Memorandum on classes of business not regarded as appropriate for Cabinet discussion ’ is a minute from Brook to Bridges dated 21 April 1950 , two months after Labour had been returned to power with a slim majority of six and two months before the Korean War stimulated a huge increase in defence spending . |
| 9 | Bombing by the USA during the Korean War saved a lot of indigenous demolition work . |
| 10 | But Justin 's language about the otherness of the divine Word suggested a dyarchy . |
| 11 | These are threefold : ( 1 ) that the number of cases reported represented one-fifth the true rate , ( 2 ) that an average of two head were stolen in each theft , and ( 3 ) that the hypothetical animal had a life span of ten years . |
| 12 | The European Court defined a similar obligation in its judgment in the Von Colson case , where it held : |
| 13 | On subsidiarity , " the European Council received a report from the President of the Commission [ reviewing ] existing and proposed legislation in the light of the subsidiarity principle " . |
| 14 | The European Council approved a growth initiative , with new lending by the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) for infrastructure projects and the creation of a new European Investment Fund , which would direct money towards loan guarantees rather than loans . |
| 15 | On the free movement of persons , the European Council suggested a compromise solution to allow " signature of the convention of the member states of the European Community concerning the crossing of the external frontiers . " |
| 16 | Last August there seemed a breakthrough , when the European Parliament commissioned a report into the dispute . |
| 17 | Less than a year was to pass before the European Parliament debated a motion recommending the recognition of sign languages of member states . |
| 18 | Direct elections to the European Parliament added a measure of democratic legitimacy , while creating a significant source of pressure for further integration , but it was not until the passing of the 1987 Single European Act that real impetus was given to the integration process . |
| 19 | In 1984 the European Parliament issued a draft treaty on European Union . |
| 20 | In its February session , the European Parliament gave a second reading to the Directive on the Restitution of Cultural Goods and passed it without further amendments . |
| 21 | The European study asked a slightly different question : whether or not a policy of immediate angioplasty was preferable to a non-invasive strategy ? " 367 patients with acute MI were treated with rt-PA thrombolytic therapy ( Table 3 ) . |
| 22 | Forty-nine p.c. of correspondents who said they intended to vote Conservative said that Britain should retain its own currency even if the rest of the European Community had a common currency . |
| 23 | The European Commission agreed a regime for the importation of bananas from 1993 on July 31 . |
| 24 | This week the European Commission extended a hand to Europe 's carriers , relaxing rules barring subsidies and capacity-sharing for three months . |
| 25 | On Dec. 6 the European commission granted a loan of $1,138 million for a five-year term , and in June Western central banks issued a further $280,000,000 short-term loan . |
| 26 | On the environmental impact assessment directive , the European Commission sent a letter before action had been taken , accompanied by a personal letter . |
| 27 | In 1987 the European Commission reached a deal with airlines in the European Community extending the block exemption from EC Competition Law until 1991 in exchange for some small steps towards immediate increases in competition . |
| 28 | Yesterday , the European Commission announced a £2.5m grant giving the green light to the restoration of the grade II-listed building . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Last year the European Commission issued a code of practice on sexual harassment at work which placed an expectation on public authorities . |
| 30 | In July 1990 , the European Commission published a draft directive for data protection , as part of the ‘ Single Market ’ programme . |