Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Cosmas Adyebo was on Jan. 22 named as Prime Minister by President Yoweri Museveni . |
| 2 | Values of LTB 2 rose with radiotherapy from 0.21 ng.mo - 1 ( median ) to 1.14 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.012 ) ; PGE 2 rose from 0.60 ng.ml - 1 to 1.58 ng. ml - 1 ( p=0.038 ) , and TXB 2 rose from 0.365 ng.ml - 1 to 1.6 ng.ml - 1 ( p=0.005 ) . |
| 3 | Soviet and United States arms control negotiators resumed talks in Washington on Jan. 21 aimed at clearing obstacles to a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on cutting long-range nuclear arsenals by 30 per cent . |
| 4 | In England , as has been shown , both Edward III and Richard II reacted to mercantile opinion expressed in Parliament by impressing large numbers of ships for purposes of defence , such fleets at times employing almost as many soldiers at sea as did field armies on land , all at great expense . |
| 5 | President Endara on Jan. 18 appealed for international aid to rebuild Panama , and on Jan. 25 President Bush announced a package of aid for Panama worth $1,000 million . |
| 6 | — Guy Pearson , Surrey I LAUGHED at this property ad in my local paper : ‘ Two bedrooms , off-street park-ing , 5-piece bathroom suite , no chain ! ’ — |
| 7 | Oskar Lafontaine , 46 , Minister President of Saarland since 1985 , was on Jan. 29 nominated by Hans-Jochen Vogel , the SPD chair , as SPD candidate for federal Chancellor , and this nomination was expected to be approved by a meeting of the SPD presidium in March . |
| 8 | The National Assembly ( lower house of Parliament ) on Jan. 16 voted by 523 votes to 43 with two abstentions to support Mitterrand 's policy in the Gulf and therefore also the action of the US-led coalition . |
| 9 | The government on Aug. 12 survived by 168 votes to 122 an opposition no confidence motion alleging that it was failing to tackle lawlessness . |
| 10 | The General Assembly on Sept. 22 voted by 127 votes to six ( Kenya , Swaziland , Tanzania , Yugoslavia , Zambia and Zimbabwe ) with 26 abstentions , to exclude the FRY from its proceedings and to ask it to apply for UN membership , rather than accepting its claim to succeed automatically to the General Assembly seat formerly held by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) . |
| 11 | Iraqi radio broadcasts on Aug. 2 warned against foreign intervention in Iraq and Kuwait ; in one report the RCC threatened to " turn Kuwait into a graveyard " if any country was " moved by the lust of invasion " . |
| 12 | Astonished neighbours of Capricorn , a Halberg Rassy 45 owned by Norwegian Sigurd Ruud-Pedersen , reported six full bin bags of oranges having been taken aboard . |
| 13 | A Central Bank plan to complete a 950,000 million cruzados ( approximately US$14,000 million ) liquidity squeeze by Sept. 17 began in early September . |
| 14 | The UN Security Council on Sept. 25 passed by 14 votes to one ( Cuba ) its Resolution 670 imposing an embargo on air traffic with Iraq , excluding flights on approved humanitarian missions . |
| 15 | The Országgyülés ( parliament ) on May 13 passed by 186 votes to 37 the third and final bill aimed at compensating victims of the communist and Nazi past [ see also April 1991 and April 1992 measures — pp. 38161 ; 38880 ] . |
| 16 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 17 | The US Senate on Sept. 13 failed by one vote to secure the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush 's veto . |
| 18 | An appeal against conviction in Reg. v. Parchment ( unreported ) , 17 July 1989 succeeded in this court . |
| 19 | The 200-strong rebel army which had in December 1989 infiltrated from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire was now thought to number some 5,000 men and boys , a small proportion of whom had reportedly received training in Libya and Burkina . |
| 20 | May 24 opened in similar fashion to the previous day , only this time it was Fearless dodging the bombs . |
| 21 | After the coup , ‘ Bolshevik platform ’ activists held a founding congress in St Petersburg on 8 November 1991 attended by 164 delegates from 18 regions of the USSR . |
| 22 | Robert II reigned for 19 years and died in Dundonald Castle on 13th May , 1390 . |
| 23 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 24 | Margaret Thatcher was in November 1990 replaced as Prime Minister by Major with a consequent Cabinet reshuffle [ see pp. 37839-40 ] . |
| 25 | A member of the Institute having been found to have been in breach of Bye-law 76(c) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he between 1 January 1985 and 30 March 1992 engaged in public practice contrary to Bye-law 59 when he did not hold a current practising certificate was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 26 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 2 voted by 14 votes to nil with one abstention ( China ) to adopt Resolution 778 impounding oil-related Iraqi assets worth an estimated US$500-800,000,000 , frozen since August 1990 [ see p. 37639 ] , to pay for humanitarian relief , compensate victims of the Gulf war and finance the destruction of Iraqi weapons . |
| 27 | In the session 1972–73 the expected workload of the Committee as judged in October 1972 consisted of fifteen proposals for full-time or part-time BEd courses , as well as one for a full-time Diploma in Educational Technology and a Further Education certificate . |
| 28 | Catherine II persisted with this form but had it more richly jewelled ( fig. 37 ) . |
| 29 | Vaclav Havel , the Czechoslovak President , on Feb. 17 departed for official visits to Iceland , Canada and the United States , accompanied by Marian Calfa , the federal Prime Minister . |
| 30 | At a meeting on 8 October 1992 hosted by this department and attended by representatives of District Council Planning Departments and the Scottish Wildlife Trust , the Trust indicated that following a re-survey of sites in Lothian , an updated list of Wildlife Sites with relevant maps will be made available to district planning authorities in Lothian early next year . |