Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 2 | Hilton International has given additional operational responsibilities to Michael Finkleman FHCIMA , senior vice president — Western Europe , Mediterranean and Africa . |
| 3 | The 1896 Convention provided for the use of the diplomatic channel unless the authorities of the States concerned had allowed direct communication between their competent authorities . |
| 4 | Sir Richard Southern has made famous the extraordinary story of how the twelve great-great-grandchildren of a tenth-century priest divided a substantial part of the income of Arezzo cathedral among themselves in the late eleventh century . |
| 5 | However , the rules made when Tessas were eventually launched in January 1991 have remained intact , apart from an extra-statutory concession in October 1992 . |
| 6 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 7 | The congress session adopted a resolution introduced by Miomir Grbovic ( a central committee presidium member from Montenegro , who on May 17 had become acting head of the LCY following the expiry of Milan Pancevski 's term as presidium president ) that the LCY should be relaunched at its 15th congress , called for September 1990 . |
| 8 | Armenia and Georgia were reported on July 17 to have established diplomatic relations . |
| 9 | Skelmersdale United have signed seasoned midfielder Mick Fagan from Bangor City . |
| 10 | The Socialist People 's Republic of Albania was established in 1946 , Albania first having become independent , following more than 400 years of Turkish rule , in 1912 . |
| 11 | The Savings and Investment Bank , said to be owned by property developer Victor Gray , closed its doors in July 1982 having given massive loan facilities . |
| 12 | Dulles in January 1956 had bemoaned British " coolness " , arguing that integration was so important that it would justify " some sacrifice of traditional US and UK interests to achieve it " . |
| 13 | Officeland Inc has reported net losses of $331,079 for the year to November 30 against profits of $148,135 last time , on turnover that rose 38% to $2m . |
| 14 | Analysts attributed the popularity of the " A " share application issue to the high level of individual savings , negative real interest rates and the fact that a similar share offering in November 1991 had brought large gains to investors . |
| 15 | Hitachi Ltd has released new versions of its Exceed3 Decision Support system . |
| 16 | Hitachi Ltd has reported consolidated net profits for the year to March 31 down 39.4% at the equivalent of $699.4m on turnover that fell 2.3% to $68,235m . |
| 17 | The extent to which Louis VI and Louis VII had consolidated royal powers was masked from their contemporaries by their policy of pushing hard only where they knew that resistance was weak . |
| 18 | The 1990 draft budget tabled in November 1989 had set total expenditure at dollars 3,899 million , compared with dollars 3,500 million in the 1989 budget , an increase of 11.4 per cent . |
| 19 | Ecclesiastical fashion is slower in its cycles of change , but after the short sleeves and jeans of Vatican II have worn thin , I would not be surprised to see a few fedoras perched on the heads of priests — perhaps even with a drooping moustache . |
| 20 | An association agreement concluded in October 1991 had sanctioned economic consultations between the IMF and the Soviet Union , as well as with individual union republics [ see p. 38554 ] . |
| 21 | About two weeks later , while still at Biot , Mrs Rose began receiving strange messages by telephone purporting to come from Crabb which were according to Mrs Rose supposed to have contained personal phrases and nicknames which only the two of them knew . |
| 22 | The World Health Organization 's quarterly update statistics issued on Oct. 4 had estimated worldwide cases of infection with HIV ( the human immunodeficiency virus ) at between nine and 11,000,000 , of whom 1,500,000 had developed AIDS . |
| 23 | Novell UK Ltd has poached Lalit Nathwani from Digital Equipment UK Ltd to become its NetWare product manager with special responsibility for launching NetWare 4.0 ; he was DEC 's Pathworks product manager . |
| 24 | A DP statement on Nov. 26 had listed key demands as the bringing forward of elections from May-June to February 1992 , the resumption of trials of members of the security forces for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators in Shkodër before the April elections , the removal of SPA members from key positions in Albanian Radio and Televison ( RTV — ibid. ) , and the arrest of former communist leaders ( " blockmen " ) who were accused of abuse of power . |
| 25 | An International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) report given to Treasury Minister Guido Carli on Nov. 18 had expressed similar reservations on planned deficit reductions : " What is perceived as politically feasible still falls short of what is required . " |
| 26 | Iran was reported on Nov. 13 to have permitted foreign residents to return to the island of Abu Musa , possession of which had been in dispute since mid-April when Iranian troops took over civilian installations [ see pp. 38887 ; 39116 ; 39165 ] . |
| 27 | Oxford 's historic Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common have provided grazing land since the Domesday Book with hundreds of local people enjoying commoners rights all year round . |
| 28 | Trinity International has promoted corporate development director Philip Graf to deputy chief executive responsible for the group 's UK newspaper interests . |
| 29 | Ageing populations , the growing importance of non-communicable disease in developing countries , the rise in outbreaks of tropical disease , and the threat of the HIV pandemic have placed added burdens on already stretched programmes . |
| 30 | SunSoft Inc has adopted London-based Alex Technolgies Ltd 's graphical user interface tool for use with Solaris 2.0 in its master developer series on Intel and Sparc platforms : Alex allows users to transform their character applications to run under Open Look without modifications to the code . |