Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 7 a spokesman for the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait said in Geneva that a minimum of US$145,300,000 would be needed to protect and assist Kurds over the next six months . |
| 2 | On Jan. 1 a plan for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip was proposed by two left-wing Israeli Knesset members , Ran Cohen of the Citizens ' Rights Movement and Amnon Rubinstein of the Shinui Party . |
| 3 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
| 4 | On Jan. 19 the Ministry for Research , Technology and the Environment confirmed that two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , at the invitation of the Algerian government , had visited the nuclear reactor at Ain Oussera , 140 km south of Algiers , which had been under construction since 1986 with technical assistance from China . |
| 5 | In the National Assembly on March 26 the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation , Wilson Ndolo Ayah , had criticized " the sheer bad manners " of some diplomats , and on March 29 KANU secretary-general John Joseph Kamotho had warned Kenyans against " collaborating with foreign embassies " . |
| 6 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 7 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 8 | On July 22 the search for survivors in Baguio city was abandoned by foreign rescue teams , but local volunteers continued the search and , as late as July 30 , a man was rescued from beneath the ruins of a hotel . |
| 9 | In January 1975 the contract for the buildings as they now stand was awarded to Messrs A A Quinn of Tandragee at a price of £54932 . |
| 10 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 11 | Marian Calfa , the Federal Prime Minister , announced on May 11 the resignation for health reasons of Vladimir Prikazsky , since February federal Minister without Portfolio in charge of state relations with the media . |
| 12 | But by the end of July 1950 the need for Anglo-American solidarity outweighed the military disadvantages , and the Cabinet agreed to the formulation of a brigade group to operate in Korea under American command . |
| 13 | On 18 December 1961 the Committee for Space Research declared itself in favour of the development of the Diamant rocket . |
| 14 | On May 16 the figure for April was announced , showing a further increase to a seasonally adjusted figure of 2,175,100 ( 7.6 per cent ) . |
| 15 | On 7 January 1959 a committee for space research ( Comité des Recherches Spatiales ) was created by government decree . |
| 16 | On Nov 20 a spokesman for Gailani had denied reports that he intended to meet Najibullah , and on Nov. 21 Mujjaddedi also denied meeting him , adding that " neither we nor our representatives are ready to hold talks with the puppet Najib or his representative " . |
| 17 | In legislative elections held on May 24 the Organization for Popular Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP-MT ) led by President Blaise Compaore won an unexpected victory , taking at least 78 of the 107 seats in the National Assembly . |
| 18 | In its Economic Outlook published in December 1990 the Organization for Economic Co-ordination and Development ( OECD ) projected 2 per cent real growth in 1991 and 2.5 per cent in 1992 for the 24 industrialized countries of the OECD . |
| 19 | There was little change in relations with the United States , although in May 1990 the North for the first time handed over the remains of US servicemen missing in action from the Korean War [ see p. 37456 ; see also p. 38295 ] . |
| 20 | ( If the Commons passed the bill for a second time , the action would be unprecedented and , it was widely argued , could cause a constitutional impasse . ) |
| 21 | In Say v. Smith ( 1563 ) 1 Plowd. 269 a lease for a certain term purported to add a term which was uncertain ; the lease was held valid only as to the certain term . |
| 22 | In November 1989 a Movement for Polish Politics ( RPP ) was set up by a number of OKP deputies , members of citizens ' committees , industrial associations and various political clubs , the aim being to unite the Polish centre-right . |
| 23 | On Oct. 27 a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) claimed that the PKK had agreed to cease attacks on Turkey from bases inside Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 24 | In October 1989 the rouble for personal transactions was devalued 10 times , primarily to discourage visitors from changing money on the black market ( where one US dollar could buy 15 roubles or more ) . |
| 25 | On Feb. 19 a spokesman for the London-based Association for Free Kuwait said that more than 7,000 civilians had been killed and 17,000 detained since Aug. 2 . |
| 26 | On March 25 the Minister for Infrastructure , Ozires Silva , resigned . |
| 27 | In a statement issued on March 3 a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade described Bush 's veto as " a very wise decision which will be of great help to the future development of Sino-US relations " . |
| 28 | On Nov. 22 a spokesman for the exiled Iraqi New Ummah Party claimed that he had been executed along with seven other officers for having attempted to depose Saddam Hussein . |
| 29 | On Nov. 25 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) supported the former view , but cut its forecasts for economic growth in 1992 from September 's projection of 3 per cent to between 2 and 2.5 per cent and predicted that unemployment would rise slightly to over 7 per cent . |
| 30 | In August 1989 the Committee for Labour Solidarity , a grouping of left-wing trade union leaders , announced the formation of a new political party , the Movement for Social Transformation . |