Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [num ord] anniversary [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The '80s saw the U.S. postal service commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bobby Jones ' Grand Slam with the issue of a special stamp showing the famous golfer in plus-fours at the finish of a swing . |
| 32 | Travelling Cloudburst , a video celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Martin Niemoller , the German theologian , has been released . |
| 33 | Budget day marks the fifth anniversary of the change in the method of encouragement for the planting of trees for future benefit from the previously long-tried fiscal relief to grant aid . |
| 34 | President Hafez al-Assad on March 8 , in a speech to a youth rally marking the 27th anniversary of the accession to power of the Baath Party , appeared to confirm these reports . |
| 35 | An interdenominational service celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Women 's World Day of Prayer will be held at St Catherine 's Church , Crook , on March 6 at 7pm . |
| 36 | Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester , Air Chief Commandant , WRAF , today attends a Service to mark the 50th Anniversary of the WAAF and the 40th Anniversary of the reforming of the WRAF , at St Clement Danes Church , Strand , London WC2 . |
| 37 | The Duchess of Kent attends a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight in Exeter Cathedral . |
| 38 | The statement accused President Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union government of using riot police last week to suppress a student seminar to mark the first anniversary of an anti-corruption demonstration . |
| 39 | The Duchess of Kent this morning attended a Thanksgiving Service in Exeter Cathedral to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight , and later opened St David 's House . |
| 40 | On Dec. 3 workers in Bhopal staged a general strike to mark the seventh anniversary of the world 's worst industrial disaster , in whose immediate aftermath at least 2,000 people died and 180,000 were treated for toxic symptoms . |
| 41 | A 70-YEAR-OLD man and his former comrades will perform a parachute jump to mark the 50th anniversary of their wartime drop into the ‘ killing fields ’ of Arnhem . |
| 42 | Berri announced his decision while addressing a rally to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the disappearance in Libya of Amal 's founder , Imam Moussa Sadr . |
| 43 | THE SON of a Caithness crofter will take his rightful place among great Scottish inventors today when an exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the fax machine opens in London . |
| 44 | The Mikado opened in Birmingham last week and will transfer to the company 's old London home , Sadler 's Wells , on April 28 as part of a season marking the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Sullivan 's birth . |
| 45 | This month marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley , chemist , cleric and reformer , whose scientific discoveries and powerful imagination , together with outspoken views on freedom of thought , education and religion , inspired contemporaries and future generations |
| 46 | The move coincided with the publication of a catalogue marking the fifth anniversary of their firm . |
| 47 | The exhibition marks the 52nd anniversary of the evacuation which took place from May 27 to June 4 , 1940 . |
| 48 | Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada . |
| 49 | As celebrations started in Iran this week to mark the 14th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini 's return from exile in Paris and the start of the Islamic revolution , President Rafsanjani took a tough stance over the death threat to Salman Rushdie during a press conference in Tehran . |
| 50 | PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT TO MARK the 21st anniversary of the Benson & Hedges Cup , a special trophy was created for the most consistent player of the 1992 tournament . |
| 51 | SEVERAL of Ulster 's leading hurling players will participate in a novel tournament to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen 's University hurling club . |
| 52 | The first recording session was of The Fair Field , Arnold 's commission to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the famous Fairfield Hall , Croydon in 1973 . |
| 53 | The summit marked the 15th anniversary of the creation of the regional body in Lagos in 1975 [ for list of member states see p. 36991 ] . |
| 54 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 55 | The exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Blumenthal 's death includes fifty-two reliefs and sculptures executed between 1927 and 1940 and numerous drawings and sketches ( from 8 October until 18 November ) . |
| 56 | But proper critical attention will be reserved for the museum 's major treatment of Käthe Kollwitz , for whom this exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of her birth . |
| 57 | Next month brings the 10th anniversary of the North 's celebrated defeat of Graham Mourie 's All Blacks . |
| 58 | They join the Queen at a service in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein . |
| 59 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 60 | A planned remembrance reunion to mark the 50th anniversary of the low-level raid on the Ploesti oilfields in Romania in August 1943 has interested R G Crick of Welling , Kent . |