Example sentences of "[noun sg] mark the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its emergence marked the true beginnings of the specifically human line of behavioural development , and the late acquisition of the superego characterized the beginnings of human culture , religion and civilization in general . |
| 2 | When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 . |
| 3 | A ceremony at Madrid 's only synagogue marked the 500 years since , on March 31 , 1492 , King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave Spanish Jews the choice of conversion to Christianity or expulsion under threat of death . |
| 4 | For example , in the solo waltz the dancer marks the three beats of a waltz in roughly every other bar , usually with her feet , but in the third musical phrase she poses in arabesque and marks the beat by gradually lowering her hand three times . |
| 5 | About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft . |
| 6 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 7 | The Hereford world map marks the main stages of one such — the famous pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella . |
| 8 | Manley visited the United States on May 2-4 , 1990 , for talks with President Bush and other US officials , the visit marking the improved relations between the USA and the PNP administration . |
| 9 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |