"bombing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Events come and go in a blur - IRA attacks, the Falklands war, the Brighton bombing, the miners' strike, the poll tax riots - before her leadership crumbles.
- After the Brighton bombing in 1984, Neil Kinnock predicted that it would be 'many many decades' before consent came about (Newsnight BBC2, 12/10/84).
- Devastating political events - the miners' strike, the Brighton bombings - are dealt with in an almost operatic way.
- Magee did not speak to us as he left the station and was later given eight life sentences with a recommendation he serve a minimum of 35 years for his part in the Brighton bombing, this conspiracy and other terrorist charges.
- Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing; it had occurred the same morning.
- Morrissey, frontman of the popular English alternative rock band The Smiths, said shortly after: "the only sorrow of the Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed".
- Magee received eight life sentences: seven for offences relating to the Brighton bombing, and the eighth for another bomb plot.
- The attack, the most audacious IRA operation on the UK mainland since the 1984 Brighton bombing [see p. 33365], came at a time of heightened security because of threatened terrorist attacks in connection with the Gulf war.
- On 11 June 1986, all five were convicted of conspiring to cause explosions in England, although Magee was the only person convicted in relation to the Brighton bombing.
- Until his death in the Brighton bombing in 1984, the constituency was represented by Sir Anthony Berry.
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