Example sentences of "[noun] [num] in [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 8 ) Subject to the provisions of Ord 19 , r 6 in respect of claims involving £1,000 or less , the costs of the action up to and including the entry of judgment shall be in the discretion of the arbitrator to be exercised in the same manner as the discretion of the court under the provisions of the County Court Rules ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) ) . |
| 2 | A general strike was held on Jan. 8 in support of demands for higher wages and pensions , new measures to combat unemployment , and protection for workers during the privatisation of state industries . |
| 3 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 4 | More than 5,000 striking civil servants demonstrated in Cotonou on May 12 in support of demands for higher wages and the regularization of their working conditions , and in protest against government control of the media and restrictions on the right to strike ; the government responded by assuring the strikers that their wage demands would be met as soon as the budget had been voted on . |
| 5 | the financial statements comply with Sch 6 of the Companies Act 1985 in respect of directors ' emoluments and other transactions involving directors ; |
| 6 | Some 50 or so depositors , possibly more , signed transfers in July 1991 in respect of sums totalling several million pounds . |
| 7 | Proceeds of a concert at Middlesbrough Little Theatre on May 10 in memory of Police Superintendent Bill Askew who died of cancer will help pay for a holistic treatment centre , an alternative medicine to fight cancer , at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ In respect of all the applicants , a declaration that in carrying out his announced policy under and in relation to section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 in respect of persons serving sentences of life imprisonment imposed in the discretion of the trial judge , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , in determining for how long such a person ought to be detained for punitive purposes should fix the date of the first review by the local review committee and the Parole Board strictly in accordance with a period of detention ( that is to say , the notional determinate sentence less one-third remission ) recommended by the judiciary as necessary to meet the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 9 | Students at the University of Conakry were on strike for most of November 1990 in support of demands for increases in their grants and for improvements in the quality of teaching and of library and other facilities . |
| 10 | On Oct. 25 France announced the suspension of aid , and the last French troops were withdrawn on Oct. 30 in spite of calls from the opposition for them to remain to prevent more killing . |
| 11 | Kim Dae Jung , head of the main opposition Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , began a hunger strike on Oct. 8 in support of demands for greater social and economic justice , the implementation of local autonomy measures , the dissolution of the DSC and the abandonment of plans to transform the current presidential political system into Cabinet government . |
| 12 | The Ministry of the Interior announced on Oct. 30 that eight members of the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , arrested on Oct. 27 in possession of arms and forged documents , were responsible for the assassination ; two others had been shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 13 | About one-third of the staff of Albanian Radio and Television ( RTV ) went on strike from Nov. 1 in support of demands by the Independent Radio-Television Trade Union for the resignation of RTV 's directors , a demand supported by the Democratic Party , whose deputies boycotted the debate on the status of RTV in the People 's Assembly . |
| 14 | Support for CGA is being phased out with Windows 3.1 in favour of displays that can handle colour . |
| 15 | The Commission adopted interim measures for the first time in June 1991 in respect of aids granted to the French betting monopoly in the case referred to in the case study on pp. 238 — 43 . |