Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earl of Radnor and Lady Windsor each gave ten guineas ; John Thornton the notorious City speculator and gambler , twenty pounds . |
| 2 | On the second ballot on February 1l , Margaret won 146 votes , Willie Whitelaw 79 , myself and Geoffrey Howe each won 19 votes , and John Peyton 11 . |
| 3 | A meeting of the 16 Land ( state ) governments on March 12 demanded constitutional changes reinforcing their role in EC decision-making as a precondition for their approval . |
| 4 | Reacting to what the government claimed was an unsuccessful military coup against the regime of President Idris Déby on Feb. 21 , the Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Hamat on March 2 asked foreign diplomats to ensure that their staff did not " intervene in the internal political affairs of Chad " . |
| 5 | Those released on March 2 included military officers and civil servants who had been accused of taking advantage of the campaign for the December 1990 municipal elections to organize an attempted coup against the regime of President Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya . |
| 6 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 7 | On 5 April 1329 Isabella and Mortimer appointed as Justice of the Forest south of Trent Sir John Maltravers , who had been one of the gaolers , and probably one of the murderers of Edward II : when Edward III assumed personal authority in the following year , Maltravers saved himself by flight to France . |
| 8 | The Procurator-General , however , on Jan. 10 declared this agreement null and void because it contravened an October 1989 ruling of the federal court in Brasília [ see p. 37292 ] . |
| 9 | Edward IV answered both questions by putting Gloucester into Warwick 's place . |
| 10 | Edward IV answered both questions by putting Gloucester into Warwick 's place . |
| 11 | On Ali Tusi 's departure for Persia , Mehmed II built another medrese beside the Uc Serefeli medrese and divided the 100 akce salary Ali Tusi had received equally between the muderrises of the old and new medreses . |
| 12 | Throughout his career , Gaunt was conspicuous for his loyalty to the king , and even when Richard II spurned that loyalty for a time , Gaunt did not associate himself with opposition to the court . |
| 13 | When Mr Roach first made this point in late 1988 , many economists thought he was being too sanguine . |
| 14 | When Gyggle first explained this experiment to me I almost laughed at how facile it was . |
| 15 | UDF representatives on Jan. 9 accused hardline elements in the BCP regional administrations of encouraging the protests in order to sabotage the democratic reform process in Bulgaria and to rally conservative forces in the BCP ahead of an emergency party congress beginning on Jan. 30 . |
| 16 | As secretary and later resident he was responsible for English representation at Vienna in 1697–1700 , although William III placed more reliance on his Dutch counterpart . |
| 17 | Prosecutors may try to present videotape of the test explosion as evidence in the trial of four men charged with the bombing last February that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 , New York Newsday said . |
| 18 | The eager Yugoslav striker , who also provided the late winner last December that gave Red Star a 3–2 win over Anderlecht , was the key to his team 's 2–0 defeat of the Greeks . |
| 19 | The Bank noted that the increase in the member-to-member movements in November and December 1986 reflected additional transactions being made through the inter-dealer brokers . |
| 20 | The North , Wales and Scotland each recorded significant percentage increases during the month . |
| 21 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 22 | A report produced by the investigating commission and published on May 12 contained strong criticisms of the company responsible for erecting the stand , Sud-Tribune of the Bastia soccer club , which owned the football team , and of local government officials . |
| 23 | A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on Sept. 12 said poor areas could face " hardship and even malnutrition " in the winter , because of market disruption . |
| 24 | Federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic ( a Croat ) on Sept. 30 accused Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic of using the JNA to advance Serbia 's aims . |
| 25 | Antall on May 22 presented this team , and his outline " programme of national renewal " , to the Országgyülés , which on the following day approved both simultaneously , by 218 to 126 with eight abstentions , and the government was then duly sworn in . |
| 26 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 27 | In January 1762 King Charles-Emmanuel III freed all serfs on the royal estates and encouraged those of the nobility to negotiate their own freedom . |
| 28 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French . |
| 29 | A bomb explosion aboard a ferry south of Trincomalee on Sept. 10 killed 24 soldiers and 15 civilians . |
| 30 | Reacting to the FIS march , Chadli on May 7 told religious scholars attending a conference on the future of Islam that religion should not be mixed with politics and party manoeuvring . |