Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 2 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Much of the improvement in January came from a sharp and largely unexplained fall in spending by government departments . |
| 4 | Negotiations in Renville arrived at a precarious agreement , signed on 17 January 1948 , by which the Van Mook Line was accepted , in return for virtually nothing . |
| 5 | It had been announced on Feb. 4 that food supplies in Russia stood at a critical level , with stocks about to run out within 20-40 days . |
| 6 | The library created by Aby Warburg in Hamburg left for a safe haven in London in 1933 , accompanied by its custodians and future directors Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing . |
| 7 | The last of eight special trains bringing 7,600 refugees from the West German embassy in Prague arrived to a warm welcome in Bavaria , while a train with more than 600 East Germans left Warsaw , also bound for West Germany . |
| 8 | Another fine entry of just under 500 pigs at McClelland 's in Ballyclare resulted in a great trade all round . |
| 9 | He was instituted to the canonry in Durham cathedral on 27 January 1940 and in mid-February settled into a gigantic house which went with the canonry . |
| 10 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 11 | Fertility increases in Britain occurred in a modest way in the later 1930s and much more strikingly between the mid-1950s and 1960s . |
| 12 | A DREAM offer of work in Italy turned into a frightening three-day ordeal for two young job seekers . |
| 13 | An 8.4% stake in Hachette held by a Panamanian registered company linked to Iraqi interests allegedly acting for Saddam Hussein will be reduced to 1.8% as a result of the merger . |
| 14 | Share prices in Tokyo fell to a six-year low yesterday , weakening the Japanese banking system and threatening world economic recovery . |
| 15 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 16 | Delegates at the Annual Congress of the Scottish TYUC in Perth voted by a significant majority in favour of a motion tabled by the Scottish NUM . |
| 17 | Figures released yesterday showed 300,000 people in Wales indulged in a heavy drinking session every week . |
| 18 | Danielle Simpkins from Forest Green near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire died from a severe skull fracture . |
| 19 | Henry , a talented sculptor and musician from Faringdon in Oxfordshire fell from a top floor window . |