Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] p. " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1991 Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish representatives met in Visegrad , near Budapest , to co-ordinate as a group their negotiations with the European Communities ( EC — see also p. 38 ) and co-operate on economic and security issues . |
| 2 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |
| 3 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 4 | European Community ( EC ) foreign ministers agreed on July 20 in Brussels to defer until autumn the proposed upgrading of a co-operation accord with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN , of which Indonesia was a member — see also p. 39005 ) after hearing an account of human rights abuses by the Indonesian army in East Timor from Joao de Deus Pinheiro , the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister . |
| 5 | Five new negotiating proposals were submitted on Nov. 27-28 : by the " Cairns Group " of agricultural exporting countries ( both developed and developing-see also p. 36508 ) , by Japan ( relating particularly to food security and subsidies ) , by South Korea , jointly by Brazil and Colombia as developing countries , and by Bangladesh on behalf of the LDCs ; another three proposals were submitted on Dec. 19-20 : by the four Nordic countries , by Austria and by the EC . |
| 6 | The government 's early arguments that ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ are less persuasive with the budget surplus accumulated in 1987 and 1988 and claims that tax cuts are better than greater state spending on social and health services have found fewer takers among the public ( see below p. 297 ) . |
| 7 | This figure is identified as a demon , but it could be a deity or semi-divine hero , who were often shown with a horned head-dress ( see below p. 146 and fig. 14.28 ) . |
| 8 | This assumption is based on the figure of 53 Roman miles , quoted on the Middleton milestone as having been measured from Carlisle as the caput viae , and backed by the name of the civitas given on both the Brougham milestone and the tombstone of Flavius Martius from Old Penrith ( see below p. 58 ) . |
| 9 | The late Flavian material in the upper fill of the inner Kingshams ditch probably represents early civilian rather than military activity ( see below p. 66 ) . |
| 10 | November : Resignation of Stoltenberg [ see below p. 37868 ] . |
| 11 | They discussed a draft treaty put forward by Luxembourg [ see below p. 38154 ] but postponed any firm decisions on contentious issues until the December 1991 EC summit in Maastricht . |
| 12 | Canada , which had recognized Ukrainian independence on Dec. 2 [ see below ] , announced the establishment of diplomatic links with Ukraine and Russia , and recognition of the other nine members of the CIS [ for recognition of central Asian republics by Moslem states see below p. 38657 ] . |
| 13 | This area , according to Freud , is one of concealed desire' ( Fantasy , 8 , 65 ; see also p. 78 ) . |
| 14 | Bronski , discussing the romanticizing of the non-Anglo by Edward Carpenter and others , declares : ‘ the English fascination with the non-Anglo — and therefore more ‘ primitive' ’ and ‘ ‘ natural' ’ — cultures … was also based in and inseparable from deeply rooted standards of white British racism and political and cultural imperialism' ( Culture-Clash , 26 — 7 ; see also p. 15 and Bakshi , ‘ Homosexuality and Orientalism ’ ) . |
| 15 | The reason was that public confidence in the quality of the coinage depended on the retention of an ‘ immobilised ’ , i.e. unchanging , design ( see also p. 14 and fig. 9 ) . |
| 16 | A good example is Augustus , who changed his type of portrait in response to his changing political circumstances ( see also p. 39 ) , and these changes can be approximately dated from coins ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 17 | Nero 's adoption of this type of official portrait was an aspect of his revival of the practice of likening the emperor to a god , a practice which had been avoided by the emperors of the previous ninety years ( see also p. 40 ) ; at the same time the choice of this particular model marks a major stage in the growing importance Nero attached to his own theatrical and musical performances which , when given in public , deeply shocked traditional Romans . |
| 18 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 19 | A footpath leaves here on a lonely clifftop walk to Red Point for Gairloch , a magnificent trek with views across to the Outer Hebrides : see also p. 58 . |
| 20 | It is invaluable to the sociologist who wishes to trace broad patterns of social change , and to make comparisons between the social conditions of one period and another ( see also p. 100 ) . |
| 21 | ( See also p. 124 . ) |
| 22 | The Bush administration responded by ousting NEA Chairman John Frohnmayer ( see also p. 14 ) . |
| 23 | An international edition of the catalogue , with dual language texts in English and Italian , will be published by Fabri several weeks after the exhibition opens ( see also p. 15 ) . |
| 24 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 25 | ( See also p. 67 . |
| 26 | These recits are the most interesting of Guedron 's works ; it was he who was responsible for introducing them in place of spoken dialogue , thereby taking the ballet de cour a significant step nearer to opera , particularly in the Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud ( 1617 ) ( see also p. 322 , n. 44 ) and Ballet du Roy sur L'Adventure de Tancrède en la forest enchantée ( 1619 ) . |
| 27 | Hare ( 1973 ) has suggested ( see also p. 111 ) that this is because fluvial processes tend to be dominated by extreme events rather than balance relationships , and that the geomorphic time-scale is very long compared with that appropriate for climatic processes , although glaciology is in a very different situation . |
| 28 | ( In recent years the Team Spirit exercise had involved some 200,000 troops and had been vehemently condemned by North Korea as act of unwarranted aggression which impeded channels of communication between the two states — see also p. 36465 . ) |
| 29 | Whereas this practice was widespread in the UK , it was banned in most other EC member states ; UK observers noted that its abolition in the UK would force UK institutions to double their cash holdings , a factor which they said would raise costs and which could thus jeopardize the dominant position of the London market in European equity trading ( see also p. 36494 ) . |
| 30 | It was clear by the end of 1989 that the Commission 's plans to introduce a uniform 15 per cent withholding tax on capital savings had been dropped in the face of vigorous opposition from many member states ( see also p. 36494 ) . |