Example sentences of "[noun prp] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then gives Scott and his team a lift to a congress in Budapest in the early hours of Tuesday in an aircraft of the Queen 's Flight for further lobbying of her fellow International Olympic Committee members . |
| 2 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 3 | Ettore Bugatti lost his love of racing after the death of his son Jean in an accident near the family factory . |
| 4 | It is with the publication of Ideology and Utopia in an English translation in 1936 that the sociology of knowledge begins its uncomfortable incorporation into the discipline of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 5 | Similarly another story involved Kylie in an Australian restaurant . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll call the press and get the TV cameras out to Monument Hill in an hour or so , ’ said Ray Shepherd . |
| 7 | On Nov. 6 Marrack Goulding , the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace-Keeping Operations , was despatched to Angola in an effort to resolve the crisis and restore peace . |
| 8 | GATT 's Director-General , Arthur Dunkel , meanwhile was mandated by a majority of the GATT 's 108 member countries to begin a round of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and Brussels in an attempt to avert a transatlantic trade war . |
| 9 | The government begins two days of negotiations today with Inkatha in an attempt to persuade the touchy Zulu leader that the ANC-government pact is not designed to exclude other smaller parties . |
| 10 | He was accorded this title in March at a meeting in Islamabad of nine warring factions called by Pakistan in an attempt to bring peace to the country . |
| 11 | However , Mandela in an address to the General Assembly on Dec. 3 called for the maintenance of economic sanctions , arguing that they should only be lifted in phases corresponding to actual progress . |
| 12 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 13 | In comments which appeared directed principally at Yeltsin , Gorbachev in an address to the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences on Feb. 26 had openly acknowledged that a power struggle was under way , and warned that the Soviet Union could collapse into civil war unless radicals curbed their opposition . |
| 14 | Once again the dilemma of maintaining the independence of South Korea without involving the United States in an open-ended commitment was examined . |
| 15 | These words , uttered by Baron Parke in an 1848 case , still hold good today . |
| 16 | The CAA inspector put his arm round Branson in an avuncular manner . |
| 17 | HOMELESS Stephen Grady — living with 11month-old daughter Heidi in an old car — faces being moved on tomorrow . |
| 18 | Then Buddie had slapped his thighs and bellowed with laughter as the biggest bin overturned and its slimy contents rushed towards Frankie in an oozing wave . |
| 19 | In 1619 William joined Pavier in an attempt to publish plays by and attributed to Shakespeare , apparently intending to sell them in sets of nine volumes . |
| 20 | PLO chair Yassir Arafat in an interview on July 28 said : Rabin " has admitted that some of the settlements are illegitimate . |
| 21 | 8 October : The Duke of Gloucester as President of the British Consultants Bureau left Royal Air Force Northolt this afternoon to visit Portugal in an aircraft of No 32 Squadron , Royal Air Force . |
| 22 | Government forces captured nine rebel camps in Gulu district in northern Uganda in an offensive in May 1989 , killing 370 rebels proclaiming allegiance to the Holy Spirit movement ( formerly led by Alice Lakwena — see p. 36419 ) . |
| 23 | The early settlers brought vines to Madeira and , according to tradition , Prince Henry the Navigator introduced the superior vine , Malvasia candida , into the island from Crete in an attempt to capture the trade in sweet wines from the Genoese and Venetians . |
| 24 | Kenny won nine full England International caps while he was a Palace player , with another eight for the Under 21 's and two for England B. He was our Player of the Year in both 1977 and 1979 , an ( l it took a record fee to take him to Arsenal in an exchange deal in 1980 , when he and Clive Allen were each valued at £1 million . |
| 25 | Palestinian activists affiliated with PLO chair Yassir Arafat 's Fatah faction had reportedly adopted a strongly anti-Iraqi line , a move which had prompted the Iraqi leadership to deploy guerrillas from the Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) in Kuwait in an attempt to control the Palestinian community . |
| 26 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 27 | His presidential ambitions were already well known : notably , he had told the Paris newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published on Aug. 28 that he had a " moral right " to the post [ see also p. 37546 ] . |
| 28 | Iran 's oil sales to the US and assets there were frozen by the Carter administration , whose later attempt to mount a Hollywood-style rescue ended in the desert at Tabas in an ignominious collision of aircraft . |
| 29 | The Soviet-DRA rejection of neutrality for Afghanistan was confirmed by the Afghan leader Babrak Karmal in an appearance on Afghan television on 21 March . |
| 30 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |