Example sentences of "the 1988 [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A further major reform was introduced in the 1988 Budget , namely : any disposals on or after 6 April 1988 will be rebased to March 1982 , so that only gains or losses accrued since that date will be brought into account . |
| 32 | Currently , the annual saving is in the region of £5 billion , only slightly more than the sum that the Government gave away in tax cuts to the richest 1 per cent of taxpayers in the 1988 budget . |
| 33 | This helped persuade the Government to take action altering tax incentives for planting in the 1988 Budget . |
| 34 | Tree-planting has fallen from a peak of 29,000 hectares in the year to March 1988 to 17,300 hectares in 1992 , following the replacement of tax incentives for planting by a grant system in the 1988 budget . |
| 35 | So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms . |
| 36 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 37 | To get her gold she took up bell ringing , did a lot of swimming , helped the National Trust clear up after the 1988 hurricane , and completed a 50 mile long trek in Glencoe in four days . |
| 38 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 39 | Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) . |
| 40 | When the 1988 contract says that the foundation will pay an annual sum to the owners of the paintings , how much will this be ? |
| 41 | The 1988 contract includes a kind of hire purchase agreement whereby this sum will be used in part for the purchase by the foundation of the paintings in the collection . |
| 42 | The 1988 contract between the Spanish government and Thyssen |
| 43 | Further details of the 1988 contract between Spain and Baron Thyssen |
| 44 | The 1988 survey included for the first time results from saliva tests from half the children surveyed ; this double check may have encouraged them to be more honest about their smoking habits . |
| 45 | He was the one who helped produce the Bush campaign 's dirtiest — and most effective — commercials during the 1988 campaign , including the ones hitting Mr Dukakis on his liberal prison furloughs and filthy Boston harbour . |
| 46 | Chosen to manage the 1988 campaign of George Bush , he deployed a notoriously vicious " negative campaigning " style , concentrating Republican resources on relentlessly discrediting the character and distorting the record of the Democrat nominee , Michael Dukakis [ see p. 36339 ] . |
| 47 | Notwithstanding Clinton 's protestations , the agonies suffered over the issue of draft evasion by Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate during the 1988 campaign meant that many Republicans seized upon the allegations against Clinton with undisguised delight . |
| 48 | As with the 1988 squad , the backbone of the side is provided by Manawatu 's Massey University regulars from Palmerston North . |
| 49 | The visit marked the improvement in relations between the two countries following the 1988 ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 36171 ] . |
| 50 | After the 1988 ceasefire agreement Iraq had attempted , unsuccessfully , to have these debts cancelled . |
| 51 | At the same time Iraq closed its land borders and air space and ordered 15 infantry and armoured divisions , disbanded after the 1988 ceasefire agreement with Iran , to be re-formed . |
| 52 | The two countries had yet to finalize a peace treaty formally ending the conflict which had effectively been halted by the 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 36568-69 ] . |
| 53 | The convention establishes procedures for the transport and disposal of toxic waste , and insists that the country for which the waste is intended should agree to receive it before it leaves port — an effort to avoid incidents such as the 1988 voyage from port to port of the Karin B. Environmentalists have criticized the convention for its lack of " teeth " — enforcement is left to individual countries — and for its lack of precision on what constitutes acceptable disposal standards . |
| 54 | Fiji Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said that his colleagues wanted to send a delegation to New Caledonia each year to monitor implementation of the Matignon Accord ( the 1988 pact which ended fighting between French settlers and pro-independence indigenous Kanaks by promising a 10-year process leading to a referendum on self-determination — see pp. 36348-49 ) , but the proposal was rejected by the French government . |
| 55 | Under the 1988 Road Traffic Act , a driver can be required to give a blood or urine sample only if breath tests prove impossible or inappropriate . |
| 56 | The 1988 experience was no different . |
| 57 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 58 | Government concerns that the 1988 Licensing Act would encourage greater consumption of alcohol have been proved unfounded . |
| 59 | The 1988 Licensing Act and the 1991 Children and Young Persons ( Protection from Tobacco ) Act have deleted the words ‘ knowingly ’ and ‘ apparently ’ . |
| 60 | This would effectively replace the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( Cramra — see p. 36062 ) , which had met with widespread opposition , and which Japan alone now supported . |