Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Austria had on Jan. 17 also reimposed a visa restriction for Turkish people , initially for three months . |
| 2 | The Macedonian Assembly on Jan. 25 unanimously adopted a declaration of the republic 's sovereignty , and a platform on Yugoslavia 's future structure ; the sovereignty declaration enshrined the right of the Macedonian people to self-determination , including the right to secede from Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | The Council of Ministers on Jan. 24 also approved a 300,000 million ptas investment plan for Asturias providing for the creation of 1,800 new jobs over the next six years with special regard to the mining sector . |
| 4 | The Import Duties Bill of February 1932 also imposed a general tariff of 10 per cent on almost all imports , and the Import Duties Advisory Committee , which it formed quickly , raised the tariff to 20 per cent on manufactured goods , to between 25 and 30 per cent on luxury goods and to 33 per cent on chemicals and a wide range of other goods . |
| 5 | The National Assembly on July 18 overwhelmingly approved a bill amending the Constitution and granting the government special powers to combat terrorist crimes . |
| 6 | The CSCE assembly on July 5 also adopted a resolution on the situation in the Dnestr region of Moldova [ see pp. 38877-78 ; 38924 ] demanding " an immediate ceasefire between the sides involved in the conflict , as well as the [ ex-Soviet ] 24th Army 's neutrality and its withdrawal from the Republic of Moldova " . |
| 7 | Saddam Hussein on Sept. 3 formally approved a law legalizing opposition parties and ostensibly ending 23 years of one-party rule ( since the 1968 coup ) . |
| 8 | In a first move of this kind , the government on May 16 formally lodged a request with Syria for the extradition of Alois Brunner , who was alleged to have ordered the deportation of 100,000 Jews from Germany and France . |
| 9 | The Supreme Court on Sept. 1 unanimously rejected a petition brought by Sirimavo Bandaranaike , leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , challenging Premadasa 's election in December 1988 . |
| 10 | Working in a similar vein but on a grander and more broadly historical scale is Alfred Kren , with exhibitions at his large three-room space at Antwerpenstrasse 42 often following a diptych format . |
| 11 | The Majlis had on May 23 unanimously approved a change in its formal title from the National Consultative Assembly to the Islamic Consultative Assembly . |
| 12 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 13 | The Congregational Union 's executive cabled to Washington on 7 January 1896 also urging a peaceful settlement . |
| 14 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he at Ivybridge between 1 April 1988 and 30 April 1990 whilst Treasurer of an organisation failed to deal properly and promptly with the financial affairs of the organisation for which he was responsible by virtue of the said office and in that he on or about 9 February 1990 improperly drew a cheque on the account of an organisation to settle a liability not incurred by them was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £350 by way of costs . |
| 15 | Both houses of parliament on Aug. 20 unanimously approved a constitutional amendment granting official language status to Konkani , Manipuri and Nepali . |
| 16 | Tasted in 1980 , the Fred Leroux 1920 still had a vigorous mousse , even if the palate was well into the ‘ cheesy ’ stage of old age . |
| 17 | Did Louis IX really have a sound title to act as sovereign over them at that time ? |
| 18 | Glen Brittle already has a youth hostel and a campsite , and in the height of the season the single track road to the shore can barely cope with the number of climbers and tourist cars using it . |
| 19 | The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 . |
| 20 | The Supreme Soviet on Feb. 14 nevertheless supported a compromise proposal by Gorbachev that it should return to the question , and on Feb. 27 it approved in principle ( by 347 votes to 24 , with 43 abstentions ) a draft bill on creating the new presidency , and agreed to convene an extraordinary Congress . |
| 21 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) on Nov. 4 narrowly won a by-election for a seat in the upper chamber of the Diet for the conservative Aichi prefecture , the home region of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu . |
| 22 | Pharmaceutical group Wellcome 's report and accounts for the year ended 29 August 1992 also has a section on treasury in the directors ' review of operations and finance . |
| 23 | As the TUC would not negotiate with the NUWM this logically implied an end to the Movement which finally dissolve on the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 24 | A special conference of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) on Dec. 3 unanimously endorsed a proposal made by President Daniel arap Moi to repeal Section 2A of the Constitution , which stipulated that KANU was the only legal political party . |
| 25 | He ended up in fact with a high-spirited beauty , the Polish princess Clementina Sobieska , who was smuggled out of Austria and across Europe in the most romantic circumstances , although George I ungallantly offered a £10,000 dowry to any other suitable candidate who would marry her first . |
| 26 | The Financial Times of April 2 also quoted a DPK spokesman as alleging that " we are facing a worse genocide than Halabja " , a reference to the use in 1988 of poison gas by the Iraqi army in the town of Halabja which killed an estimated 5,000-6,000 people [ see pp. 36168-69 ] . |
| 27 | Despite Dole 's change of stance , the House of Representatives on April 24 overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution which mirrored the earlier Senate resolution . |
| 28 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
| 29 | In his whole life Henry II never fought a battle ; not did Philip until 1214 and although that battle , at Bouvines , turned out to be the victory which crowned his career he did his best to avoid it . |
| 30 | Both John Westley , who walked more than 9,000 miles around the British coast , and the Morgan 4/4 already hold a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |