Example sentences of "p. [num] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Federal Electoral Institute released in early September the final results which corrected preliminary estimates of the Aug. 18 mid-term congressional elections but which confirmed that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) had won a huge majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of the Congress [ see p. 38385 for details of other simultaneous elections ] . |
| 2 | [ See p. 38549 for allegations of Chinese nuclear technology links with Iran . ] |
| 3 | Finance Minister Hu Tsu Tau introduced to Parliament on March 1 , 1991 , the budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1 , 1991 , [ see p. 37575 for details of 1990 budget ] . |
| 4 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] . |
| 5 | The congress approved a number of amendments to the party constitution [ see p. 35577 for amendments approved at 13th congress ] . |
| 6 | [ See p. 34295 for details of 1986 Fifth Malaysia Plan . ] |
| 7 | It was also agreed that an independent commission of inquiry would be established in Mopti in northern Mali on Feb. 19 and that talks would continue in Algeria on Feb. 15 [ see also p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion in Niger ] . |
| 8 | There was some media speculation that while the decision was made to protect foreign tourists , the government also wanted to secure the border against the infiltration of arms by Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion ] . |
| 9 | [ See p. 38115 for comments in March 1991 by the then Bundesbank president Karl-Otto Pöhl . ] |
| 10 | US President George Bush on Jan. 11 welcomed the move as " a very sound step " , and cited the announcement as a justification for his policy of maintaining contacts with the Chinese government [ see p. 37122 for visits to China by senior US officials in July and December 1989 ] . |
| 11 | See p. 90 for distinctions of Accipitridae from falcons . |
| 12 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 13 | The number of synonyms resulting from this process should be compared with those to be expected from perfect randomization ; see p. 166 for methods of doing this . |
| 14 | The amendments , first endorsed at the meeting of Lebanese National Assembly deputies in Taif , Saudi Arabia , in October 1989 [ see p. 36986 for details of political provisions of Taif Accord ] , had again been endorsed on Aug. 21 when 51 deputies convened in Beirut . |
| 15 | Former members of the now dissolved National Assembly [ see above ] organized a petition in early 1989 as part of a campaign for the Assembly 's restoration [ see p. 36951 for rumours of such a petition ] . |
| 16 | Fighting continued in southern Lebanon during November between Hezbollah and Israel and its proxy militia , the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) [ see p. 39166 for details of fighting in October ] . |
| 17 | The budget for the 1990/91 financial year ( starting July 1 , 1990 ) was approved by official decree on June 30 [ see p. 37429 for details of 1989/90 budget ] . |
| 18 | The protests ranged from sensitive lobbying of the superpowers by the moderate Arab nations to the issuing of terrorist threats by Lebanese-based Moslem extremists [ see p. 37266 for statements by Arab Co-operation Council on the issue ] . |
| 19 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 20 | Prior to the National Assembly on the economy held on Dec. 5-21 , the 10th plenary session of the sixth Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) central committee concluded in Hanoi on Nov. 26 with the adoption of a new " Draft Platform on Socialist Construction for the Transitional Period " [ see p. 37375 for details of ninth plenum held in March 1990 ] . |
| 21 | On Dec. 4 , 1989 , Hanoi radio announced that as part of the nation 's anti-crime campaign , " all provinces , cities and special zones " throughout the country had begun to suppress vigorously all types of crimes by encouraging " the masses to participate in maintaining social order and security " [ see p. 36697 for reports of increased crime levels during 1988 ] . |
| 22 | The French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , visited Syria , Egypt and Israel in early October [ see p. 39119 for activities of Dumas in September ] , according to some press reports attempting to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad . |
| 23 | On Feb. 11 the Israel Supreme Court rejected an appeal by nuclear technician Mordechai Vanuanu against his 18-year prison sentence [ see p. 38596 for details of the conduct of the appeal ] . |
| 24 | There was a serious escalation in late October in the war in southern Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel and their proxy militia , the South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) [ see p. 39118 for details of fighting in September ] . |
| 25 | On Jan. 22 Gorbachev issued a decree withdrawing Rbs50 and Rbs100 banknotes ( the highest denominations ) from circulation [ see p. 37971 for details of permitted exchanges ] . |
| 26 | On June 7 Ehsanul Haq Piracha , Minister of State for Finance , presented the 1990-91 budget to the National Assembly [ see p. 36736 for details of 1989-90 budget ] . |
| 27 | Multilateral negotiations on refugees were held in Ottawa , Canada , on Nov. 11-12 [ see p. 38932 for details of the first round of refugee talks in Ottawa in May 1992 ] . |
| 28 | It was the first US MIA team to visit Cambodia [ see p. 37289 for developments relating to MIA issues in Vietnam , which US teams visited frequently ] . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , UNTAC officials continued to express concern over ceasefire violations [ see p. 38817 for reports of fighting around Kompong Thom in March ] . |
| 30 | The agreement came at the end of the third round of peace negotiations which began on March 15 in Algiers [ see p. 38709 for talks in January ] . |