Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | Opren , a drug for treating arthritis , received a product licence — which gave it the right to be marketed in the UK — in March 1980 from the then minister . |
| 3 | This was in apparent retaliation for the Swiss expulsion on March 22 of the Iranian consul-general in Geneva , Manouchar Tale Massouleh . |
| 4 | Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board , is expected to ask the Government for stronger powers to prosecute fraud when he completes his review in March 1993 of the regulatory body 's responsibilities . |
| 5 | I refer to my memorandum dated 31 March 1993 in the above regard , to which all departments have now responded . |
| 6 | I refer to your letter of 11 March 1993 concerning the above and the use of Media Action to organise an information type campaign over a period of possibly one week . |
| 7 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 8 | The Chinese " blueprint " was approved at a meeting in Canton on Jan. 17-20 of the political subcommittee of the Basic Law drafting committee ( BLDC , the body established to permit " consultation " on the proposed " mini constitution " by which Hong Kong would be ruled after 1997 ) . |
| 9 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 10 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 11 | The first was the killing of two policemen on Jan. 2 by the Azanian People 's Liberation Army ( APLA — the military wing of the PAC ) . |
| 12 | The failure of the Senate to pass a law extending value added tax would leave a shortfall of P1,000 million , but this would be covered by proceeds from the sale on Jan. 30 of the state-owned Philippine Airlines . |
| 13 | The Pittsburgh Pirates were leading Detroit 4–3 in the 1909 Baseball World Series and only minutes remained in the game . |
| 14 | Indeed , Charles of Navarre , Jeanne 's son born in 1332 , was as close as Edward III to the last Capetians , and he did not hesitate to point this out in the 1350s when it suited him . |
| 15 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 16 | A Cakes and Wine Evening on Jan. 7 at the usual meeting place at Balerno High School . |
| 17 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 18 | Brady met on Jan. 21 with the German Finance Minister Theo Waigel ( who declined afterwards to state a figure for the German contribution ) and with the Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ( who had already stated on Jan. 18 that Japan would contribute a " substantial sum " to be decided " as soon as possible " ) . |
| 19 | However , another peaceful MDU rally took place on Jan. 21 in the central Sukhe Bator Square . |
| 20 | The summit had been postponed from its original scheduled dates of Jan. 9-10 at the apparent request of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi . |
| 21 | Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 22 | On Thursday , December 17 in Room 24 , Alex Seago will talk on ‘ Peter Blake : An English Pop Artist ’ ; Friday 18 in the Lower Galleries at 1 pm Charles Hustwick will talk on ‘ Beardsley to Bomberg : British Drawings and Watercolours ’ , on Saturday December 19 in the Auditorium at 1 pm Laurence Bradbury will talk about ‘ Peter Blake : original Pop ’ ; Sunday December 20 at 2.30 pm in the Auditorium , Laurence Bradbury will talk on ‘ Ivon Hitchens : natural Abstraction ’ , and on Sunday December 27 at 2.30 in the Auditorium , Laurence Bradbury will talk about ‘ A Sequence of 20th Century ‘ Isms ’ , Lectures are free and no prior booking is required . |
| 23 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 24 | GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel had set mid-April 1992 as the latest in a series of target dates for completing the talks . |
| 25 | Edward sought papal approval for the coup he was planning and as his intermediary in the negotiations he relied on Sir William Montague , a knight of the household whose family had served Edward I and Edward II in the Scottish and Welsh wars . |
| 26 | On Jan. 17 at the French Institute on International Relations in Paris Kohl made his first major speech abroad since presenting his 10-point plan for a German confederation on Nov. 28 [ see pp. 37025-26 ] . |
| 27 | The Scud launched on Jan. 17 against the allied air base at Dhahran , Saudi Arabia , was destroyed in the air by Patriot anti-aircraft missiles . |
| 28 | Brampton may have fought for Edward IV during the political upheavals of 1469–71 . |
| 29 | From this stems the historical importance of the ordinances of war issued by kings on campaign : by Richard II during the Scottish war of 1385 ; by Henry V in France in 1419 ; and by his brother John , duke of Bedford , in Normandy in 1428 , all three attempts to control the illegal or ‘ un-peaceful ’ activities of soldiers , in particular in their relationships with non-combatants . |
| 30 | In a second-round run-off on Jan. 6 between the two leading candidates for the presidency , Jorge Serrano Elias of the Solidarity Action Movement ( MAS ) emerged as the clear winner with 936,338 votes ( 68 per cent ) , while Jorge Carpio Nicolle , the candidate of the National Centrist Union ( UCN ) , won 438,990 ( 32 per cent ) . |