Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the european [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be .
2 Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism .
3 Labour leader John Smith , in Question Time exchanges on freedom of information , demanded to know the cost to Britain of the ‘ fiasco ’ of Black Wednesday , when the pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism .
4 Prime Minister John Major had defended the government 's decision to take sterling out of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , saying that " there was no choice " , while Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont blamed the UK 's European partners , especially Germany , for the speculative turmoil in currency markets which had derailed sterling [ see pp. 39080-81 ] .
5 Indeed , one of the leading contenders for the post , Edouard Balladur , has specifically dissociated himself from the British government , which pulled sterling out of the European currency grid last year and substantially cut interest rates .
6 Long famed for its masterly handling of the markets , the Bank lost face when sterling was forced out of the European exchange-rate mechanism in September .
7 There will be much worse to come if the German government decides , as it may , to pull out of the European Fighter Aircraft project on which Deutsche Aerospace was counting for future revenues .
8 Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project .
9 England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August .
10 IVAN LENDL , the No 4 seed , crashed out of the European Community Championships in Antwerp yesterday , beaten 6–4 , 6–2 in the second round by unseeded Australian Mark Woodforde .
11 GRAEME SOUNESS had no complaints after watching Liverpool easily dumped out of the European Cup Winners Cup by Russian champions Spartak Moscow .
12 LIVERPOOL paid the price for Moscow madness when they were dumped out of the European Cup Winners Cup on Wednesday .
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