Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland was divided into 5 regions and guides to them were written and published in 1935 or the following year . |
| 2 | Although reports indicate that the Soviet Union has exclusive control over Cam Ranh Bay there remains a difference in size between it and the Soviet ‘ base ’ in Alexandria until 1972 or the American base in the Philippines . |
| 3 | It does n't look much , but the new endpin jack from Fishman Transducers will make life a whole lot easier when you install a Fishman AG-125 or the Fishman-made Martin Thinline 332 acoustic guitar pickup . |
| 4 | The French ravaging of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1747 or the Russian sack of Memel ten years later are good cases in point . |
| 5 | That way you can always tell when an album has been made — like there 's the DX7 sound from around 1985 or the Ensoniq sound . |
| 6 | It was reported on Aug. 30 that the Sacred Union had decided to end its boycott . |
| 7 | In addition there had been a report on June 30 that the Supreme Council had changed the law on the status of deputies , including a provision for annulling a deputy 's mandate if his or her activity tended to hinder the development of an independent democratic state . |
| 8 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | It was announced on Nov. 30 that the British Army presence in Northern Ireland would be increased by 500-600 troops , in view of " firm intelligence " indicating a likely increase in bombings and shootings by both republican and loyalist paramilitaries before Christmas . |
| 10 | It was announced on April 30 that the French company Elf Aquitaine had negotiated an agreement on the Aktyubinsk oblast ( region ) field . |
| 11 | After an optimistic report on May 30 that an official announcement would be made soon by Brooke stating that formal talks would be forthcoming between the principal constitutional parties about the political future of the province , Brook was on July 5 able to give to the House of Commons only an abridged version of the statement he had hope to make . |
| 12 | Inquiries were set up in both cases , while Haughey announced on Sept. 22 that a serious fraud agency was to be established . |
| 13 | The ANC announced on Oct. 22 that a high-level meeting had been arranged with the leadership of Inkatha on an unspecified date . |
| 14 | AFP , quoting official Lebanese sources , reported on Aug. 22 that an Israeli navigator , Ron Arad , was alive , but that the other six servicemen were dead . |
| 15 | The former Prime Minister of Hungary Károly Grósz revealed on April 22 that the Soviet Union had secretly deployed nuclear weapons in Hungary until 1988 . |
| 16 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 17 | A United Kingdom Foreign Office Minister of state , Tristan Garel-Jones , announced in parliament on Nov. 22 that the British government had authorized the search for oil off the coast of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands , and issued a proclamation asserting British jurisdiction over the islands ' seabed and continental shelf . |
| 18 | Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould , two invertebrate palaeontologists , suggested in 1972 that the abrupt transitions in the fossil record reflect the way evolution actually works , by fits and starts , or in their latinate phrase , ‘ punctuated equilibria ’ . |
| 19 | Moscow 's Narodny Bank announced on Dec. 12 that a modified Juno mission , to place a British citizen in space aboard the Mir space station , would go ahead in April or May 1991 [ see p. 37437 ] . |
| 20 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 21 | Dinesh Goswami , the Minister of Law and Justice , announced on Jan. 12 that the central government had decided to oppose the US$470,000,000 settlement between the Gandhi government and the US company Union Carbide Corp . |
| 22 | It had been agreed on July 12 that the central committee would comprise 398 members . |
| 23 | Russian newspapers said on Feb. 12 that the Russian Republic was considering setting up Russian armed forces . |
| 24 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced in a press release of July 12 that the Mongolian government had filed an application to join the IMF which would be considered " in accordance with prescribed procedures " . |
| 25 | It was reported on Feb. 12 that the new government had been promised over $250,000,000 in foreign loans and aid . |
| 26 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 27 | It was reported on Aug. 12 that the Waitangi Tribunal , New Zealand 's powerful advisory body on Maori affairs , had recommended that ownership of most of the fisheries of the country 's South Island should be transferred to the Ngai Tahu , one of the country 's smallest Maori tribes . |
| 28 | To ensure the simplicity of the system , it is expressly provided in Article 2 that no intervening agency in the requested State is to deal with the Letter of Request on its way to the Central Authority . |
| 29 | It was announced on Dec. 2 that a new party had been created by a faction in the former communist ruling party , the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) . |
| 30 | It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater . |