Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , Edward Shorter has made a similar case for improvements in women 's health status generally as a pre-requisite to an active feminist movement . |
| 2 | BY HIS DECISION TO SEPARATE THE COURT from the machinery of government , Napoleon III had erected a barrier against all court influence on the making of policy . |
| 3 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 4 | Hillhouse International has launched a £135,000 project to protect water flowing into the River Wyre at Thornton . |
| 5 | The account he had written of his experiences at Waimea on 18 January 1985 had won a prize . |
| 6 | President Alan Garcia 's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector . |
| 7 | But now Mark H. Thiemens and John E. Heidenreich III have found a specifically chemical effect that allows oxygen atoms of different isotopes to be distinguished . |
| 8 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 9 | The police were reported on July 17 to have arrested a total of 31 people in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the town of Gonaives and to have seized a warehouse full of " homemade " weapons following what the government described as a " conspiracy against the internal security of the state " by former members of the Tontons Macoutes . |
| 10 | Trade union bodies demanded a ruling on the bill by the Constitutional Court , which on July 11 had annulled a 1979 decree giving trade unions the right to establish working conditions within an enterprise . |
| 11 | Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter . |
| 12 | The Pensioners ' Party was reported on Sept. 25 to have gained a National Assembly seat when independent deputy Imre Barcza joined the party . |
| 13 | The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) claimed on Sept. 16 to have crushed a government military offensive launched between Sept. 9 and 13 on the northern Ginda and Dekemhare fronts , east and south-east respectively of the beseiged government-held provincial capital , Asmara . |
| 14 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 15 | The appropriations bill for fiscal 1990 adopted on July 20 by the House and approved by the Senate on Sept. 28 had included a request to the HUD to develop rules prohibiting the use of outside consultants to acquire future contracts under the remaining funds in the programme . |
| 16 | A major reshuffle in July 1989 had produced a Cabinet which , it was loudly proclaimed , would lead the party into the next general election . |
| 17 | Silicon Valley Group Inc , San Jose and Canon Inc have agreed a 10-year partnership to develop and produce advanced deep ultraviolet step-and-scan photolithography equipment : under the agreement , Silicon Valley Group , which was saved from oblivion with the help of IBM Corp , will retain full ownership of its Micrascan technology , and Canon will license the technology to market in Japan and other Pacific Rim nations , with the exception of Korea . |
| 18 | Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year . |
| 19 | Clarks International has unveiled a new range of sports shoes called Cica . |
| 20 | Scientists at the seed company Nickerson International have produced a crop of potatoes which have been genetically modified to resist pests such as the Colorado beetle and tuber moth . |
| 21 | This is an unusual event in that the consequence of the purchase by KP Ltd of its own shares from its founder is that Farringdon plc 's shareholding now exceeds 50% ( 45,000 out of 85,000 shares ) and KP Ltd has become a subsidiary . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON manager Ray Hankin last night denied Cambridge United have made a bid for goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe . |
| 23 | Hitachi Ltd has developed a high-speed text retrieval system for the company 's 3050 Unix workstations . |
| 24 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing local network-based multisystem electronic mail products , hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter roll-out : Hitachi reckons that it 's on to a good thing because veca : International Data Corp predicts the worldwide market will be 77m users in 1996 ; Hitachi is expected to make a point of integration , management and directory synchronisation likely using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol . |
| 25 | Hitachi Ltd has put a tiger team from its Network Products Group in Silicon Valley on developing LAN-based multiplatform e-mail products hoping to have them all gussied up in time for a third-quarter rollout . |
| 26 | In March he was summoned north by the news that the negotiations with Louis VII had reached a crucial stage . |
| 27 | Gen. Martin Bonnet , the Army Chief of Staff , was reported on Oct. 31 to have filed a petition to the government for his retirement and to have requested that his Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Balza replace him until a successor was appointed . |
| 28 | I could say Mrs Gotobed had made a Will but we could n't find it . |
| 29 | Mrs Gotobed had made a Will and Mr Evans had stolen it . |
| 30 | Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was reported on Oct. 18 to have sent a message to the UAE government undertaking that Russia would defend the UAE in the event of aggression . |