Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [that] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the question of unresolved property claims ( numbering 1,200,000 , of which 10,000 were for businesses ) the Cabinet agreed on March 12 that until the end of 1992 investors who created or sustained jobs should be given priority over previous owners [ for agreement on property rights and ownership regulations in unification treaty see pp. 37536 ; 37661 ] . |
| 2 | Information came to light on Jan. 8 that at the end of December the Serbian national bank had secretly issued 18,300 million dinars ( US$1,400 million ) of new money without approval by the federal National Bank of Yugoslavia , in order to make a loan to the Serbian government . |
| 3 | A Chinese Vice-Premier , Wu Xueqian , said on Jan. 15 that in the transition period up to 1997 " only the central people 's government can , and is entitled to , speak on behalf of the people of Hong Kong " . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that during the past 25 years successive Governments have never quite got it right on training , which is so essential to our future prosperity ? |
| 5 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 6 | It has been established by the judgment of this court given on 3 February 1992 that by a letter to the mother , dated 23 September 1991 , the father expressed his acquiescence in the removal . |
| 7 | The news agency Interfax reported on July 5 that at a joint meeting the two opposition movements , Birlik and Erk , had decided on joint action , acknowledging that the differences in approach between them since Erk 's split from Birlik in late 1989 had played into the hands of the government . |
| 8 | Revealing for the first time the size of the Exchange Fund ( which guaranteed the Hong Kong dollar ) , the Financial Secretary , Hamish Macleod , announced on July 15 that at the end of 1991 foreign reserves stood at US$29,000 million , the 12th largest in the world . |
| 9 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 10 | It was reported on Oct. 3 that in the previous two weeks Australian groups had recorded combined losses of around A$6,500 million . |
| 11 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 12 | The daily Clarín reported on March 3 that under a decree signed by Menem on Feb. 26 , 1990 ( expanding an earlier decree of March 10 , 1989 , introduced after the La Tablada attack — see p. 36394 and below ) , the armed forces were entitled to intervene in the event of " a state of internal disturbance " serious enough to endanger the life , liberty , property or security of the country 's inhabitants ; with this in mind the National Security Council [ see p. 36613 ] was to draw up plans for possible joint actions by the police , the security forces and the armed forces . |
| 13 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 14 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 15 | The House of Lords held that in the present case the defendants ' disclaimer was sufficient to exclude the assumption by the defendants of a duty of care towards the plaintiff . |
| 16 | But the House of Lords held that in the absence of any infringement of the law or any improper conduct by the club the banning was unreasonable and a breach of the council 's duty to act fairly , hence a procedural impropriety and a misuse of statutory powers . |
| 17 | The House of Lords held that in the context ‘ transferring ’ obviously meant assigning the beneficial interest and not the technical process of having a transfer registered . |
| 18 | The House of Lords held that in the absence of a contractual relationship between the parties , the cost of repairing a defect in the structure , which was discovered before the defect had caused personal injury or physical damage to other property , was not recoverable in a negligence action . |
| 19 | Gorbachev announced to the Congress on Dec. 26 that on the previous day Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov had suffered a heart attack , and was seriously ill in hospital . |
| 20 | Russian officials had announced on Dec. 18 that in the near future Russian representatives would replace the union delegates in these talks . |
| 21 | Indicating United States recognition of Iran 's regional importance , US President Bush told Arab journalists in Washington on March 9 that as a " big country " Iran " should not be forever treated as enemies by all of the countries in the region " . |
| 22 | Chin said on June 17 that by the year 2000 around 90 per cent of global AIDS cases would be among heterosexuals . |
| 23 | The State of Emergency Governor for the south-eastern region , Unal Erkan , told other regional governors meeting in Batman on June 17 that in the last 40 days 60 soldiers and some 180 civilians had been killed in clashes . |