Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Patrick was receiving last minute instructions from Tom Rooney in the sitting room of his three room flat in Kelly Street off the Kentish Town Road . |
| 3 | The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war . |
| 4 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |
| 5 | Illustrating his continued love of the game , Toks has been a columnist in Rugby U.S. for the past two years , commenting on a wide variety of topics . |
| 6 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 7 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 8 | A new brand of cigarettes called ‘ Death ’ has been selling in Los Angeles for the past two months . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's an instrument made by a guy called Weisenborn in Los Angeles in the '20s and '30s , ’ Ry explains . |
| 10 | The Canberra group had begun to study the effect of a variety of drugs on memory formation in the chick , using a novel learning task they had adapted from work done in Los Angeles by the veteran neurobiologist Art Cherkin . |
| 11 | The UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) was officially established on March 15 with the arrival in Phnom Penh of the chief co-ordinator , Yasushi Akashi [ see p. 38767 for UN Security Council approval of UNTAC in late February ] . |
| 12 | Their personal reconciliation marked the beginning of a remarkable rapprochement between the monarchy and the administration headed by Hun Sen , which had been installed in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese when they expelled the Khmers Rouges in 1979 . |
| 13 | He 's just finished a stint as Edmund in King Lear at the Royal Court Theatre and is looking forward to a holiday in Wales with his actress wife , six-year-old daughter and teenage stepson . |
| 14 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 15 | Had an enemy completely unknown to Peggy travelled to the fête in Little Tuckett with the express purpose of bumping off the fulsome Phipps ? |
| 16 | But I understand Eddie Jordan plans to draft in Macau-based Irvine for the final two races of the year in Japan and Australia . |
| 17 | Lord Stockton has revealed , in a television interview with Ludovic Kennedy , the substance of his conversation with Mrs Thatcher in Downing Street in the fraught days immediately following the seizure of the islands : |
| 18 | In the past few years I have been involved in a Seminar for senior administrators from the Third World studying at British Universities A group of 25 or 30 is gathered each year at Plockton in Wester Ross by the British Council , the ODA and the Highland Board . |
| 19 | James Toney captured the IBF super-middleweight title from Iran Barkley when the doctor halted their bout in Las Vegas after the ninth round of their scheduled 12-rounder , while Markus Bott , of Germany , won the WBO cruiserweight title when he outpointed American holder Tyrone Booze over 12 rounds in Hamburg . |
| 20 | ‘ She is a German woman , who was married to an American , and first met Elvis in Las Vegas in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | And the master plan is for Lewis to make a third defence of his title against American Tommy Morrison in Las Vegas in the third week of February . |
| 22 | The procedure described in Weston Martyr 's ( 1885–1966 ) delightful book The Southseaman ( which is about wooden shipbuilding in Nova Scotia in the nineteen twenties ) was probably much commoner . |
| 23 | On Feb.8 1,000 television workers had protested in Victory Square at the alleged NSF control of the media . |
| 24 | One of the first of what is now English Estates trading estates was built at Chirton in North Shields under the 1930s special areas legislation . |
| 25 | The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell . |
| 26 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 27 | The government on April 1-21 held talks in North Yemen with the Eritrean Liberation Front ( ELF ) and other smaller Eritrean groups . |
| 28 | I mention especially the way in which we distributed aid in South Africa through the ambassadorial fund . |
| 29 | Which is why we will invest R8 million in South Africa over the next three years alone . |
| 30 | India are currently in South Africa as the first black nation to play the Republic in a Test series while England 's invitation to visit The Cape is still in the pending tray . |