Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am extremely surprised to hear what the hon. Gentleman says , for opthalmology waiting lists between March 1990 and March 1991 almost halved for long waiters . |
| 2 | State election dates : The Communist-led governments of West Bengal and Kerala on March 18 and March 21 respectively approved decisions to hold elections in May simultaneously with those to the Lok Sabha , and the West Bengal State Assembly was dissolved on March 31 . |
| 3 | The opposition Social Democratic Party ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands — SPD ) made significant gains in local elections in the states of Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein on March 18 and March 25 respectively . |
| 4 | The Commons and the Lords further approved on March 12 and March 19 respectively , the extension for a further 12 months of the emergency provisions and powers contained within the 1978 and 1987 Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Acts [ see p. 37099 for last 12-month extension ] . |
| 5 | In January 1982 he published his Discussion Document , while his report , Review of Investor Protection , which came out in two parts , Part I and Part II , was published in January 1984 and March 1985 respectively . |
| 6 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
| 7 | RUPERT Murdoch and Reed International yesterday resumed their battle to carve up a large slice of America 's publishing industry between them , by spending more than three-quarters of a billion dollars on two major companies . |
| 8 | Lumping all screen violence together , Gladiators , Tom and Jerry and Rugby Special hardly makes for disciplined analysis . |
| 9 | In diplomatic moves to resolve the crisis , President Juvénal Habyarimana visited Burundi and Kenya on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16 respectively to discuss various initiatives to restore peace in Rwanda and the region , in particular the holding of a regional conference on the plight of thousands of Rwandan refugees in neighbouring countries . |
| 10 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 11 | A defence agreement signed by Kuwaiti and French government representatives in Paris on Aug. 18 was described as slightly less extensive than those which Kuwait had signed with the USA and the United Kingdom in September 1991 and February 1992 respectively [ see pp. 38455 ; 38790 . ] |
| 12 | Both Stoph and Kessler had been arrested in late 1989 in connection with corruption investigations [ see p. 37107 ] , but had been released in January and February 1990 respectively . |
| 13 | Rachaela drank her coffee , and presently left Emma and Ruth alone together , for Emma to give Ruth her revolting gooey tea . |
| 14 | Later Bede , William of Malmesbury , Leland and Camden all either recorded or made comments on Roman remains at Carlisle . |
| 15 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 16 | Ireland , Scotland , Wales and England all proudly sport their own individual beauty . |
| 17 | The following account applies equally to African and South American weakly electric fish : the convergence is that thorough . |
| 18 | Between the autumn of 1934 and May 1935 more than 11.6 million individuals were polled in their own homes — thirty-eight per cent of the total electorate . |
| 19 | As of mid-May Uzbekistan and Moldova had completed the relevant formalities ( on April 30 and May 5 respectively ) . |
| 20 | The French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and the German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher visited Iran on May 3-5 and May 6-8 respectively . |
| 21 | They were Viliam Salgovic , a former president of the Slovak parliament , and Antonin Kapek , a former politburo member and secretary of the Prague party section from 1969 until 1988 , who committed suicide on Feb. 5 and May 22 respectively . |
| 22 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in January received applications for membership from six former Soviet republics : Azerbaijan ( Jan. 7 ) , Russia ( Jan. 7 ) , Armenia ( Jan. 13 ) , Kazakhstan ( Jan. 14 ) , Kirgizstan ( Jan. 24 ) and Moldova ( Jan. 24 ) ; Ukraine had applied on Dec. 31 , and Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania — the Baltic states — had applied on Sept. 9 , Oct. 1 and Sept. 12 respectively . |
| 23 | Mozambique and Namibia acceded as the 104th and 105th contracting parties of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) on July 27 and Sept. 15 respectively . |
| 24 | The jails were filled and the press muzzled : between April and December 1930 no less than ten ordinances were issued to meet the emergency — the greatest such number that any viceroy had ever promulgated . |
| 25 | FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ ( below ) replaced FX740 , again retaining my father 's ‘ ? ’ symbol and was then taken on charge by 112 on June 3 , 1944 and then being flown by S/L Attearne DFC and Reg Wild eventually being replaced on June 22 , 1944 by the incoming Mustangs , re-equipping the Squadron , thus disproving the news item on FX760 in August 's issue of FlyPast stating 112 did not operate this aircraft but 3 Squadron RAAF ! |
| 26 | Peek Plc 's Talahassee-based Peek Traffic Inc has acquired two traffic control companies and reckons it is now the largest , most diversified and capable US traffic management systems company : it bought Signal Control Co in Salem , Oregon and Signal Maintenance Inc in Anaheim , California , both from IASCO of Foster City , California , for $4.2m , equivalent to net asset value of the two companies , which have combined annual turnover of $24m ; payment will be $2.08m cash on completion and installments of $1m in October , $470,000 and $650,000 in April and July 1994 respectively . |
| 27 | Parallel announcements relating to Wales and Scotland were made on July 23 and July 25 respectively . |
| 28 | The alternative economic programmes of the Industrial Union and of the loosely allied Civic Union [ see p. 38974 ] were published before the conference , and reported in Izvestiya of Aug. 12 and July 23 respectively . |
| 29 | Both these areas had been proposed for SPA status by the Nature Conservancy Council , in August 1990 and July 1988 respectively , but no progress has been made . |
| 30 | Saudi diplomats had been assassinated in Ankara and Bangkok in October 1988 and January 1989 respectively [ see pp. 36259 ; 36952 ] . |