Example sentences of "pp. [num] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referendum was officially boycotted by six republics ( Armenia , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania and Moldava — although voting took place in some districts of these republics ) , while Kazakhstan , the RFSFR , Ukraine and Uzbekistan voted on additional questions concerning each republic 's status in the USSR [ see pp. 38078-79 for referendum details ] . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai delivered his government 's policy statement to parliament on Oct. 21 [ see pp. 39093 for formation of Chuan government in September ] . |
| 3 | Official press reports quoted the Prime Minister as saying that normal freedoms might be curbed with effect from Dec. 4 , and further stated that he had ordered the dissolution of a " spider 's web " of bodies alleged to support the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) [ see pp. 38790-91 for Feb. 1992 introduction of state of emergency ] . |
| 4 | The prisoner exchange followed the signing of a national peace pact between the government and rebels on April 11 [ see pp. 38801-02 for negotiations ] . |
| 5 | Further press disclosures of covert government funding for Inkatha [ see pp. 38318-19 for revelations in July ] were made in the Weekly Mail of Dec. 13 . |
| 6 | In the bargaining to settle this question , it was further agreed that France would support London as the location for the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , while the UK would support the French nominee for director [ see pp. 37465-66 for signing of EBRD charter ] . |
| 7 | Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , visited Harbin , the capital of China 's Heilongjiang province , on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 for talks with his Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen [ see pp. 37373-74 for visit to Soviet Union by Li Peng in April ] . |
| 8 | On April 10 President Sam Nujoma reshuffled the Cabinet for the second time since independence in March 1990 [ see pp. 38087-88 for February 1991 changes ] . |
| 9 | Walesa wrote : " Time has already rejected the outdated round table contract [ under which the former ruling PUWP and its allies were guaranteed 65 per cent of parliamentary seats — see pp. 36722-24 for June 1989 elections under this system ] … |
| 10 | At the end of the Irkutsk talks Baker left for Mongolia , but he cut short his visit to meet Shevardnadze in Moscow on Aug. 3 to discuss the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , which had been launched the previous day [ see pp. 37631-41 for coverage of Gulf crisis , including Baker-Shevardnadze joint statement ] . |
| 11 | Although polling apparently passed off peacefully , the election campaign period had reportedly been characterized by months of repression , severe restrictions and official harassment of candidates and political activists , as the military regime continued the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement which it had brutally repressed in September 1988 [ see pp. 36221-25 for background ] . |
| 12 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 13 | Rafiq al-Hariri , the new Lebanese Prime Minister [ see pp. 39165-66 for Hariri 's appointment in October ] , delivered his government 's policy statement to the National Assembly on Nov. 9 . |
| 14 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 15 | ( Elections in five states , Uttar Pradesh , Sikkim , Goa , Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka , had taken place at the same time as the general election in November — see pp. 37124-25 for results . ) |
| 16 | Funds from the IMF and the World Bank , needed by the government to provide part of the collateral , would also be jeopardized if Brazil missed a second consecutive set of quarterly targets under its IMF-approved economic programme [ see pp. 38719-20 for terms of January IMF agreement ] . |
| 17 | [ See pp. 37944-45 for January developments in the confrontation between Baltic republics and the central authorities in the Soviet Union . ] |
| 18 | The government announced on July 24 that it had signed a bilateral anti-drug accord with the United States government which specifically linked the fight against drug trafficking with that against domestic guerrilla insurgency [ see pp. 38187-88 for May outline agreement ] . |
| 19 | They are backed by a whole host of other innovations designed to promote the private sector in certain local areas — such as Task Forces ( later City Action Teams ) , Inner City Enterprises and Business in the Community ( see Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , pp. 127–49 for details ) . |
| 20 | [ See pp. 38080-81 for March 1991 crisis involving the apparent attempt by Serbia 's president Slobodan Milosevic to precipitate a takeover of federal power by the JNA . ] |
| 21 | [ See p. 37966 for January 1991 Hesse election and pp. 38155-56 for April 1991 Rhineland-Palatinate election . ] |
| 22 | In discussions on this issue , which Poland also attended [ see pp. 37302-03 for agreement that Poland should do so ] , Poland was offered a treaty , to be negotiated immediately following unification , restricted to the issue of the border , with a further treaty , to be negotiated later , to deal with other matters of German-Polish relations . |
| 23 | According to this view , power is dispersed and not concentrated in the hands of the upper classes ( see pp. 124–35 for details ) . |
| 24 | On Nov. 15 , 1989 , the government announced steps to strengthen South Korean industry and its economy [ see pp. 37088-89 for difficulties caused by among other things rising labour costs , high interest rates and the strength of the won ] . |
| 25 | Senatorial elections would be held on May 31 , with voting for the president taking place over two rounds on June 14 and June 28 [ see pp. 38752-53 for February 1992 amendments to timetable set by national conference ] . |
| 26 | On May 5 the Foreign Ministers of East and West Germany and of the four major victorious allied powers of the Second World War — France , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States — met in Bonn , the West German capital , for the first meeting at this level in the so-called " two-plus-four " discussions on the security implications of German unification [ see pp. 37259-60 for February agreement on talks ] . |
| 27 | The festivities specifically marked the signing on May 23 , 1951 , of the so-called " 17-point agreement " which legitimated China 's annexation of the previously independent Tibet [ see p. 11610 ; see pp. 11101-04 for China 's invasion of Tibet in October 1950 ] . |
| 28 | [ See pp. 36791-92 for June 1988 EC agreement on sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions . ] |
| 29 | On April 23 Li Peng began a three-day official visit to the Soviet Union , which , he said , aimed to give " new impetus " to Sino-Soviet relations [ see pp. 36641-42 for Gorbachev 's May 1989 visit to China ; see p. 37340 for internal Chinese criticism of Gorbachev ] . |
| 30 | The proposals indicated a growing convergence with the government , with apparent agreement on giving a constitution-drafting role to an elected interim administration ( called a " transitional government " by the government and a " constituent assembly " by the ANC — see pp. 38704-05 for details of government proposals ) . |