Example sentences of "[vb pp] mark the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan .
2 Twenty-four of France 's better-known writers have decided to mark the new year by launching a national petition against the reforms .
3 Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music .
4 Although the medal was minted to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the war , it received virtually no publicity .
5 The ribbon is cut to mark the official opening of the Tencel plant in Mobile , Alabama , USA .
6 AS one of the many who helped defend Malta when the island was under siege in World War II , I was interested to read ( Echo March 19 ) that the Maltese Government is keen to issue medals to those involved to mark the 50th anniversary of the award of the G.C. to the island .
7 In an interview , Brown said the National Gallery had originally hoped to mark the 2500th anniversary of Kleisthenes ' democratic reforms in fifth-century BC Athens with a one-object exhibition of the Kritios Boy .
8 If there is no alternative to using a foster mother whose natural litter is the same colour as the mice to be fostered great care must be taken to mark the fostered animals by toe clipping or all the natural young must be removed .
9 The body was found on the day that celebrations were held to mark the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sharpness to Gloucester canal .
10 At a conference in The Hague , the Netherlands , on June 18-19 , 1990 , over 120 new European research projects were launched to mark the fifth anniversary of the Eureka programme .
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