Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each landing was almost an inch deep in cartridge cases across which the thin track of dried blood still passed . |
| 2 | Several guerrillas , wreathed in cartridge bandoliers , were reading comics near an empty café where an old man was picking crumbs of bread off a table . |
| 3 | These days there 's a mastic type compound for every situation , and my favourite for external use us a one-part polysulphide , available in cartridge form for use in a skeleton gun . |
| 4 | the annual general meeting of the above-named Society to be held in Rainhill village hall , Thursday the second of December nineteen ninety three at seven thirty P M. |
| 5 | Ford in Rainhill hotseat |
| 6 | ‘ There are 25,000 people in Halewood and they have been short-changed since the psychiatric services were based in Rainhill Hospital and Whiston . |
| 7 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 8 | Launch of campaign to end trade in rhino products |
| 9 | Despite international and domestic bans , trade in rhino products appears to be on the increase , mainly in Asia , where there is a ready market for their supposed medical and aphrodisiac properties . |
| 10 | Bans on trade in rhino products have been imposed by the Convention in Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 11 | In an effort to help stem the tide of rhino poaching which is now threatening the survival of the species , the UN Environment Programme has appointed a " special envoy " , charged with persuading governments to take steps to close down the trade in rhino products . |
| 12 | Conservationist groups in the US are attempting to persuade the Department of the Interior to recognise officially that China , South Korea , Taiwan and Yemen are still trading in rhino horn , even though the trade is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 13 | According to the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , the trade in rhino horn products in these countries has been responsible for deaths of some 60,000 rhinos , or 85 per cent of the total population , since 1970 . |
| 14 | Taiwan has prohibited the trade in rhino horn , but critics say the regulations are not being enforced . |
| 15 | Despite a 15-year ban on trading in rhino horn , numbers of black rhinos has fallen from around 65,000 in 1977 to 2,500 ; numbers are falling at the rate of 28 per cent a year . |
| 16 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has recommended action , possibly including trade sanctions , against China and Taiwan for illegal dealings in rhino horn and tiger products . |
| 17 | On the day following the CITES announcement , Taiwan ordered tougher action against traders in rhino horn and tiger bones , and police raided several traditional pharmacies . |
| 18 | Zimbabwe 's environment minister Herbert Murerwa ( who had also unsuccessfully advocated a limited legalisation of trade in rhino horns ) complained afterwards that the integrity of CITES was in question , and that politicians and pressure groups had ignored scientific evidence that southern African elephant populations were " not only healthy but growing " . |
| 19 | China has published a ban on trading in rhino horns and tiger bones , coveted ingredients for Chinese traditional medicines . |
| 20 | The US has signalled that it may apply trade sanctions against Taiwan and China , because of the trade in rhino horns and tiger bones for medicinal purposes [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 21 | Warned that the certification was about to be issued , China has already responded by banning trade in rhino horns and tiger bones [ see ED 71 ] . |
| 22 | Zimbabwe leaders implicated in rhino trade |
| 23 | The only role created on him by an experienced choreographer was that of a Negro pugilist in Andrée Howard 's Mardi Gras , and that ballet , although striking in its strange , suggestive drama , was such an idiosyncratic , atmospheric piece that he was unlikely to learn much from it about form or structure . |
| 24 | There was another in Decimus Street and yet another in Paradise Street . |
| 25 | A man who was called an enigma in Mouncy Street , a poor old fellow in Decimus Street , and a proper bastard in Paradise Street . |
| 26 | He also says that he fears that he and his family , as members of the Bengali community , would be in danger of racial harassment if they lived in Carradale House , and this he supports with an affidavit on the subject of such harassment sworn by a former employee of his solicitors . |
| 27 | , Alexander ( 1894–1985 ) , aerodynamicist and archaeologist , was born 26 March 1894 in Carradale Mains , Argyllshire , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of Archibald Thom , farmer , and his wife Lily Stevenson Strang . |
| 28 | It was once the home of the Ranger in Greenwich Park and also a retreat from the City for the statesman , Lord Chesterfield . |
| 29 | As the car travelled up the hill in Greenwich Park , Lane explained . |
| 30 | He had also acquired one of Woody 's suits of clothes , which he wore for his debut performance at Gerde 's Folk City in Greenwich Village . |