Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 2 | That is why the Government have provided an extra £28 million for economic regeneration in Lanarkshire in the current year and why up to an extra £25 million will be available to the Lanarkshire development agency , in addition to what it would otherwise have received in 1992-93 . |
| 3 | Among such groups were the Levellers , who emerged as a significant political force in England in the late 1640s . |
| 4 | In the previous chapter , we saw that the start of organised football in Scotland amongst the deaf commenced in 1889 with the formation of the Scottish Deaf and Dumb Football Association which launched a knock-out cup competition . |
| 5 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 6 | The CBI points out that 40% of Japanese and US investment in Europe in the 1980s came to Britain . |
| 7 | Rabin 's challenge had followed Peres 's failure to form a Labour-led coalition government after the collapse in March of the Likud-Labour coalition . |
| 8 | The movement was particularly strong in the north-eastern town of Suceava where it claimed credit for the closure in February of the local cellulose fabric plant , whose carbon disulphide emissions had been blamed for causing nervous disorders . |
| 9 | Defeated in the 1922 general election for Dáil Éireann , she secured a seat in Dublin in the 1923 election but abstained from taking her seat as a Sinn Fein republican . |
| 10 | A similar comment can be made on the fierce struggle for women 's suffrage in Britain in the early part of this century . |
| 11 | Our rail network is the lowest funded , the lowest staffed and has the lowest investment programme in Europe with the poorest quality service and the fastest declining level of safety , but B R has the highest fares . |
| 12 | More significantly , perhaps , he revealed to Edward that there was much opposition in Normandy to the fiscal oppression of the Valois administration and the centralizing policies which seemed to threaten the provincial liberties of the duchy . |
| 13 | May not Lenin have reacted in private in a way not so dissimilar from Stalin 's overt and more violent reaction to political opposition in Georgia in the same year ? |
| 14 | RICS Books has become the agent in Europe for the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing . |
| 15 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 16 | Teddy Kollek , the mayor of Jerusalem , led another demonstration in Jerusalem against the Silwan settlement on Dec. 25 . |
| 17 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
| 18 | This developed into an IATA European exchange system which was subsequently taken over by IATA HQ in Montreal during the mid 1960s . |
| 19 | Research in Germany on the cold hardiness of Primula acaulis shows that the red-flowered cultivars are more frost-sensitive than the white or blue equivalents . |
| 20 | The study assembled evidence on the sources of funds for social science research in Britain during the 1980 's and the patterns of expenditure by subject and type of research , and examined changes in the patterns of funding over time . |
| 21 | The substantial amount of research in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s generated a number of developments and debates . |
| 22 | Muldoon , who had won 59 per cent of the vote in Tamaki in the 1990 general election [ for which see pp. 37781-82 ] , had resigned his seat in protest at the economic , health and social welfare policies of Prime Minister Jim Bolger [ see p. 38676 ] , and had appealed to voters to send a message to the government to change its ways . |
| 23 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 24 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 25 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 26 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | A third source , the Chronicle of 452 , gives a date of 415 , which is plainly wrong , although the error may result from confusion of Athaulf 's period of rule in Narbonne with the later settlement . |
| 28 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 29 | A COURSE in cancer counselling is to be run at Magee College in Londonderry for the first time . |
| 30 | More brave men at Swindon tomorrow … the area 's top fighters are in the ring in Penhill for the Senior Championships … |