Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Jan. 17 the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) welcomed " the start of military operations to liberate Kuwait " and on Jan. 26 it reaffirmed the " international legitimacy " of all UN resolutions [ see also p. 37927-28 ] . |
| 2 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 it had been announced that 50,000 tonnes of cereals supplied as famine relief by the EC would be distributed in Sudan through Danish and UK relief agencies . |
| 4 | The UFF killed a Catholic on Jan. 9 , and on Jan. 15 it killed a Protestant builder who it claimed had been an informer for the security forces . |
| 5 | By mid-September 1989 it had resulted in the death of some 35,000 birds , 10,000 sea otters , 147 bald eagles and an estimated 16 whales in and around Prince William Sound , the location of the disaster . |
| 6 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | On May 17th it said that it would not decide whether to hear an appeal challenging California 's ‘ unitary tax ’ on multinational companies until the administration had made clear its views on the matter . |
| 8 | From January 1891 it appeared as the Lagos Weekly Record , and was for forty-nine years an outspoken critic of colonialism . |
| 9 | But even in February 1980 it doubted the long-term viability of this mechanism and pointed to potential LDCs ' debt servicing problems for banks . |
| 10 | The Ministry of Information had also played a leading part in lauding the military qualities of the Soviet ally , and indeed many other of its domestic accomplishments : in February 1943 it organised a meeting at the Albert Hall to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Red Army . |
| 11 | The Trust has already obtained such permission once , when in February 1986 it divested some 21 per cent of its holding in Wellcome . |
| 12 | On Aug. 22 it emerged that Shaikh Bachir Fekih , a member of the FIS , had attended the final round of negotiations in a personal capacity amidst reports of assurances by the Prime Minister , Sid Ahmed Ghozali , that the state of siege in force in the country since June 5 [ see p. 38312 ] would be lifted by Oct. 5 . |
| 13 | In January 1933 it set up a central By-Election Insurance Fund to help needy constituencies to put forward candidates . |
| 14 | The EPLF also announced that on Sept. 12 it had agreed to merge its forces with those of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement ( EPRDM ) . |
| 15 | On Aug. 24 the Sejm elected as Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki of Solidarity , and on Sept. 12 it endorsed his proposals for a new coalition Council of Ministers dominated by Solidarity but including members of the ZSL ( since renamed the Polish Peasants ' Party — PSL ) , SD and PUWP . |
| 16 | In January and February 1985 it collapsed amidst tremendous local recriminations , directed primarily and almost entirely at strikebreakers . |
| 17 | In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 . |
| 18 | Meanwhile on Aug. 26 it had been announced that , with Gorbachev 's agreement , Silayev had transferred the functions of several USSR ministries and two central banks to the control of the relevant RSFSR ministers . |
| 19 | In December 1963 it discussed whether or not it should contest the next local government elections but no decision was taken . |
| 20 | Instead , in December 1984 it announced that a 30 per cent cut was becoming ‘ an aim of policy ’ . |
| 21 | Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m . |
| 22 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 23 | On May 19th it decided abruptly that the allegations did not matter . |
| 24 | On May 24th it became clear that America has won the contest hands down . |
| 25 | On May 11 it had been announced that a US task force including helicopters , amphibious landing ships and construction workers would be sent to help with disaster relief operations . |
| 26 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 27 | Michael Codron had reason to be grateful that it was , especially when in January 1958 it transferred for a third time — or even a fifth , if the pre-West End runs at the Theatre Royal Brighton , and the original Cambridge version , were taken into account — to the Garrick Theatre . |
| 28 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 29 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 30 | On Sept. 3 it created a post of executive President of Moldavia " because of the deteriorating social and political situation in the republic " caused by the Dnestr Russians ' proclamation and a similar move by the Gagauz minority in August . |