Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We can read Hansard ( House of Lords ) of 19 March 1980 on the subject . |
2 | In his first public reaction , Gorbachev in his opening address on March 12 to a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies [ see p. 37297 ] described the Lithuanian independence declaration as " alarming " . |
3 | President Ramiz Alia signed a decree on Feb. 11 which dissolved the People 's Assembly and set March 22 as the date for a general election . |
4 | The object of these letters was to bring Vial 's plan of 18 March 1790 to the notice of the influential readers of The Gentleman 's Magazine . |
5 | Condescension disappeared on 4th October 1957 when the Russians launched their Sputnik 1 into earth orbit , and on 3rd November sent up Sputnik 2 with a dog in it . |
6 | His appointment by the Prime Minister was announced on 1 March 1985 by the Home Secretary in the following terms : |
7 | See Nature 362 , 277 ; 25 March 1993 for an account of MicroGeneSys 's withdrawal of its vaccine from the US Army 's trial . |
8 | Turin is launching its own fair ‘ Antica ‘ 93 ’ from 26 February to 7 March 1993 in the prestige premises of the Fiat-owned former factory , the Lingotto , famous for its roof-top race-track . |
9 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
10 | The reassurance implied by Kohl 's proposal of Feb. 28 , that the West and East German parliaments should give a joint commitment guaranteeing the border after March 18 [ see p. 37260 ] , was undermined by a statement made on March 2 by the Chancellor 's Office in Bonn , indicating that such a commitment " would have to make it clear that the Polish government 's declaration of Aug. 23 , 1953 , waiving any claims to reparations from Germany [ see p. 15271 ] , remains valid , and that the rights of the Germans as agreed by Chancellor Kohl and [ Polish ] Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki in the joint declaration of Nov. 14 , 1989 [ see pp. 37048-49 ] , will be regulated by a treaty " . |
11 | A meeting in the Norwegian capital , Oslo , between representatives of the National Reconciliation Commission ( CRN ) and leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( UNRG ) guerrillas ended on March 30 with an agreement to continue peace talks to end 30 years of intermittent conflict . |
12 | The Festival will continue with the Western theme on Tuesday , March 30 in the guise of ‘ Calamity Jane ’ . |
13 | It was pointed out in Slovakia that the first documents issued in the name of the state at its inception in 1918 had used the hyphenated form , and thousands of Slovaks demonstrated in Bratislava , the Slovak capital , on March 30 against the omission of the hyphen . |
14 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
15 | And to ensure you get there in style we 'll lend you the Volvo 460 for the weekend ! |
16 | ARGENTINA beat England 10–5 and the United States beat Mexico 13–8 in the World Championships ( Limited Handiap ) yesterday at the San Cristobal Polo Club , Chile . |
17 | A ministerial-level conference was held in Vienna on Jan. 24-25 in an effort to co-ordinate immigration policy in the face of a growing influx of migrants and asylum-seekers into western Europe from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe ( particularly Poland and Romania ) . |
18 | Dr J Majo Cruzate , Advisor , Director General , DG XIII at the Commission of European Communities , after outlined the history of the European Single Market initiative up to Maastricht and ( probably ) beyond , and went on to extol the virtues of creating a single market for IT in Europe , with the European Commission 's roll seen as harmonising standards efforts and funding research . |
19 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
20 | The economic embargo of Haiti , which had caused severe disruption within the country , particularly because of the lack of fuel supplies , was broken on Jan. 2 by a tanker carrying 165,000 barrels of diesel oil from Colombia . |
21 | Col. Luis García Lozano , the second in command of the San Sebastián military zone , was shot dead in San Sebastián on Jan. 2 by a commando of the Basque separatist organization ETA . |
22 | Rallies , demonstrations and strikes were reported on Jan. 4-6 in a number of towns and cities in support of the nationalists ' demands , and on Jan. 5 there was a general strike in Kurdzhali and in the nearby city of Khaskovo . |
23 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i presented Eagleburger on Jan. 22 with an estimate that Israel would need US$13,000 million in additional US aid , in excess of the annual $3,000 million it already received in US military and economic assistance , to meet Gulf war losses up to mid-February ( $3,000 million ) and the absorbtion of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union ( $10,000 million ) . |
24 | The US-Soviet strategic arms reduction talks ( START — see p. 37223 ) resumed in Geneva on Jan. 22 with the signing of a new agreement allowing both sides for the first time to inspect each other 's nuclear warheads . |
25 | Husseini , who had spent 21 months in detention between April 1987 and January 1989 [ see p. 36408 ] , was eventually released on Jan. 22 after a protest by the US State Department . |
26 | Mario Buracchia , the commander of Italian naval forces in the Gulf , resigned on Jan. 30 after the magazine Famiglia Cristiana quoted him as saying that war could have been avoided " with a little more wisdom " and the continuation of the economic embargo . |
27 | After the coup which established Edward III on the throne in 1330 he once again became an active royal agent , serving as envoy to France in 1331 and fighting in the Scottish campaigns of the mid-1330s . |
28 | Among those receiving liveries of robes from Edward III for the winter of 1330 , at least seventeen Gascon knights and esquires are recorded as members of his household . |
29 | The Military Council , which in 1990 had stripped Moshoeshoe of his powers and installed his son Letsie III on the throne [ see pp. 37238 ; 37306 ; 37843 ] , had made it clear , however , that it was not prepared to countenance the return of Moshoeshoe as king . |
30 | On Nov. 12 he was effectively dethroned with the election of his eldest son as King Letsie III by an assembly of chiefs [ see p. 37843 ] . |