Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1986 a BBC monitor report told of demonstrations in Tehran by students and others , ostensibly Gulf Arab nationals , protesting against Kuwaiti and Saudi support for the Iraqi war effort . |
| 2 | He was perhaps married twice for on 29 March 1799 a George Bullock was married to Elizabeth Mansell , a pawnbroker 's widow in Birmingham . |
| 3 | The government introduced in Parliament on March 12 a policy paper and tabled draft legislation intended to repeal 187 laws and innumerable regulations enforcing white ownership of 87 per cent of South Africa 's land . |
| 4 | Clothed in secrecy until now , the project gives the front-wheel drive Volvo 850 a 225bhp punch from its five cylinder , 20-valve , 2.3-litre engine . |
| 5 | The Slovak government adopted on Jan. 21 a draft law governing elections to the Slovak National Council , retaining the existing system of proportional representation and the existing constituencies . |
| 6 | On Jan. 21 a Senate standing committee urged the government to make " full use of the opportunity provided by the US ban on weapons sales " , saying that " we should not only seek alternative sources but utilize all our capabilities to achieve self-reliance in defence production " . |
| 7 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 8 | On Jan. 3 a Luxembourg court ordered the liquidation of the BCCI SA , which controlled the bank 's operations in Europe ( including the United Kingdom ) and most of the eastern hemisphere . |
| 9 | On Jan. 24 a United States federal judge in Washington DC accepted a guilty plea on behalf of BCCI on charges of racketeering . |
| 10 | On March 26 a RARA subgroup named after Juan José Crespo Galende , a Spaniard who had died in detention in Spain in 1981 while on hunger strike [ see p. 31369 ] , claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry . |
| 11 | In March 1991 a rescheduling agreement was signed covering US$22,000,000 of the US$127,800,000 owed to the US government . |
| 12 | In February unknown gunmen killed Col. ( retd ) Rifat Ugurlutan , allegedly for his involvement in the activities of the security services , while on March 10 a police officer was assassinated in Istanbul by members of Dev Sol allegedly for his part in a 1989 May Day shooting incident [ p. 36668 ] . |
| 13 | In January 1948 a US official told the British ambassador that Europe must soon he able to say ‘ no ’ both to America and Russia . |
| 14 | By this time , however , the appellant was encountering financial problems , and the company likewise , to the extent that in February 1986 a finance company obtained judgment against the appellant in respect of a loan of £4,000 and the company went into liquidation in February 1987 . |
| 15 | On March 7 , 1991 , a Nanterre tribunal fined Le Pen F10,000 for insulting the former Minister for Public Services Michel Durafour with an anti-Semitic remark [ see also p. 37683 ] , although on July 2 a Versailles court cleared Le Pen of " publicly insulting " Durafour [ see p. 38354 ] ; on March 18 a Versailles appeal court increased a nominal one franc fine imposed on Le Pen in May 1990 [ see p. 37468 ] to F100,000 for describing the holocaust as a " detail of history " . |
| 16 | On July 10 a White House spokeswoman , acknowledging that Thomas had taken " several puffs " of marijuana whilst a student , said that Bush considered such youthful experimentation as " inconsequential " . |
| 17 | In December 1924 a press release stated that Her Majesty the Queen had graciously given permission for the house to be exhibited at the ninth Ideal Home Exhibition to be held by the Daily Mail at Olympia the following March . |
| 18 | On 20 February 1979 a Cabinet meeting decided on an overhaul of the statutes of the CNES , in order to increase its role and powers , to organize a body that would produce and commercialize the Ariane launcher rockets , and to undertake a new telecommunications satellite programme ( Telecom-I ) . |
| 19 | In January 1991 a peace accord between the government and the FMLN committed both sides to a series of agreements on human rights . |
| 20 | On May 7 a woman protester was killed by a ricochet bullet shot from the gun of a gendarme in a demonstration at an arms factory ( Poudreries Réunies de Belgique ) alleged to be connected with the Iraqi supergun affair . |
| 21 | In December 1984 a Constituent Assembly ( elected the previous July in preparation for a return to civilian government ) drafted a new constitution based on that of 1965 ; this was approved in May 1985 and came into effect in January 1986 . |
| 22 | At the end of May 1946 a UN Subcommittee report opined that the Franco regime was " a potential threat to international peace and security " but advised against interference from outside . |
| 23 | On July 4 a goodwill visit to Port Vila by two Australian navy ships ( scheduled for July 9-12 ) was cancelled as a mark of Australian displeasure , and on July 29 it was reported that the Australian government had imposed a ban on all high-level contact with Vanuatu until Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 24 | On 28 January 1992 a residence order was made , with the order for costs which is the subject of this appeal . |
| 25 | On Aug. 18 a government spokesman said that the Cabinet had " approved in principle " a law against bonded labour . |
| 26 | On Aug. 5 a Beijing court handed down a four-year sentence on Gao Shan , who worked at an institute for political restructuring under the Communist Party central committee , for revealing state secrets during the 1989 democracy movement . |
| 27 | The Organization of African Unity and the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) signed in Geneva on May 4 a co-operation agreement which formalized the longstanding collaboration between the two organizations and allowed the ICRC to participate in all OAU meetings as an observer . |
| 28 | During December 1992 a baby competition was held in A40 to raise money for Cancer Research . |
| 29 | On May 11 a UN Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) official said that up to 1,700,000 people were in danger of being infected by diarrhoeal diseases . |
| 30 | On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition . |