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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BNP | Danish | Bruttonationalprodukt | Economics, Statistics |
BNP | Dutch | Bruto nationaal produkt | Economics, Meteorology & Standards |
BNP | English | Brain natriuretic peptide | Medicine |
BNP | Italian | Peptide natriuretico del cervello | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | The Jamaat M.P. then tried to hold a meeting at a local BNP office, but police prevented him. (references) |
Bangladesh | In October the BNP Government banned the popular Calcutta-based Bangla-language magazine Desh. (references) | |
Lesotho | In addition to the LCD, the Basotholand Congress Party (BCP), and the BNP, there were 14 smaller, registered political parties. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | Ultimately, however, the BNP party decided to join the new Parliament. (references) |
Lesotho | The LCD, BNP, and BCP remain the principal rival political organizations in Lesotho. (references) | |
Bangladesh | In June 1999, the BNP and other opposition parties again began to abstain from attending Parliament. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | The BNP arrested a number of Bolivian and Peruvian suspects. (references) |
Bangladesh | On April 11, two bombs exploded in an alley near a BNP rally in Dhaka. (references) | |
Bangladesh | A prominent BNP leader, 5 journalists, and 11 others, have been charged with his murder. (references) | |
Minorities | Bangladesh | He also dismissed allegations that the BNP was linked to the perpetrators. (references) |
Bangladesh | The BNP admitted that there was some truth to the allegations, but dismissed reports of widespread attacks as exaggerated. (references) | |
Bangladesh | On December 29, the BNP formed a judicial commission to investigate "religiously motivated" bombing incidents that occurred during the Awami League Government period. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bangladesh | There are few apparent policy differences between the BNP, the Awami League and Jatiya Party. (references) |
Bangladesh | In March 1994, the opposition parties walked out of Parliament to protest an alleged insult by a BNP minister. (references) | |
BANGLADESH | National elections were held on October 1 and the BNP claimed two-thirds of the total 300 seats in the Bangladesh Parliament. (references) | |
Political Rights | Lesotho | The BNP won the other seat. (references) |
Bangladesh | BNP member Major (retired) Akhtaruzzaman lost his seat in 2000 when he joined the parliamentary session in violation of his Party's decision to abstain. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Women are free to contest any seat in Parliament, and in August, both the Awami League and the BNP agreed in principle to add at least 60 women's seats to the existing 300 in Parliament. (references) | |
Trade | Senegal | Its foreign correspondent banks include Barclays Bank, BNP France, Dresdner Bank, and Banque Bruxelles Lambert. (references) |
France | The largest French commercial banks, such as Societe Generale, Credit Lyonnais, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Groupe CIC, and HSBC Credit Commercial de France, rank among the largest banks in the world. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BNP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.54% of the time. "BNP" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.54% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Noun (common) | 4.62% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.85% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | BNP Paribas | USA | BNP Residential Properties, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BNP": bnp-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-p" | |
+3 letters: bedpan, upbind. | |
+4 letters: bedpans, beeping, benempt, bepaint, biplane, bopping, bullpen, bumping, bumpkin, burping, hipbone, peebeen, pembina, pinball, pinbone, prebend, prebind, proband, probang, probing, subpena, upbinds, upborne, upbound. | |
+5 letters: anableps, backspin, bankrupt, beanpole, bepaints, bespoken, besprent, biphenyl, biplanes, bleeping, blipping, blooping, bonspell, bonspiel, brainpan, bullpens, bumpkins, hipbones, openable, panbroil, passband, pawnable, pebbling, peebeens, pembinas, penumbra, pinballs, pinbones, pinchbug, plebeian, plumbing, postburn, prebends, prebinds, prebound, probands, probangs, prunable, publican, pudibund, purblind, snapback, stopbank, subpanel, subpenas, subpoena, teenybop, unprobed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4E 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001110 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B N P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004E 0050 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364850 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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