Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [conj] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploratory talks were held in Beijing on in November and December [ see pp. 37860 ; 37818 ] , after which a first round of full normalization talks was held in Pyongyang in late January 1991 and a second in Tokyo in mid-March [ see p. 38098 ] . |
| 2 | It was reported on May 7 that a meeting in Paris of the Aid to Pakistan Consortium , made up of 14 Western countries and the World Bank , had approved aid totalling US$2,300 million . |
| 3 | Seeking to focus debate on Algeria 's economic crisis , Ghozali claimed in interviews with the Belgian news media on July 16 that a change in the law to allow foreign companies increased access to oil and gas production was the only way to avoid a debt rescheduling ; servicing the foreign debt at present absorbed 74 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 4 | At a meeting in Bath ( UK ) on Sept. 5 , EC Economy and Finance Ministers and central bank governors reaffirmed their agreement of Aug. 28 that a change in the present structure of central rates " would not be the appropriate response to the current tensions in the EMS " , declared that they stood ready to intervene to counter tensions in the exchange markets , and also welcomed the fact that the Bundesbank ( the German central bank ) in present circumstances had no intention to increase German interest rates . |
| 5 | A shopkeeper with a shop in Bristol Central and a home in Bristol West would now qualify for a vote in both constituencies ; under the new system , there were few ways to qualify for plural votes , but it was much easier actually to qualify , and so tens of thousands of new plural votes were created , overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 6 | However , in Smith v South Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 the House of Lords held that a clause in a contract for services requiring the contractor to indemnify the employer against " any loss , claim or proceedings whatsoever arising out of or in the course of the execution of the order " did not apply to require an indemnity in respect of injuries caused by the employer 's negligence . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that a provision in the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 that required track owners to provide available space for bookmakers on the track , was passed for the benefit of the race-going public rather than bookmakers ( Cutler v Wandsworth Stadium [ 1949 ] AC 398 ) . |
| 8 | He was apprenticed to a bookseller , Humphrey Robinson , on 4 February 1635 , and became a freeman of the Stationers ' Company on 1 March 1643 and a liveryman in 1657 . |