Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement . |
| 2 | Businessmen from Sunkyong and Samling visited Guyana in March to open negotiations with the government and , on 17 October , signed a 25-year lease on 16,700km 2 of virgin forest — an area 10 times the size of Greater London . |
| 3 | Nato and Warsaw Pact foreign ministers are expected to meet in Vienna in March to review progress of the conventional arms negotiations . |
| 4 | Nato and Warsaw Pact foreign ministers are expected to meet in Vienna in March to review progress of the conventional arms negotiations . |
| 5 | It was the destruction of thirty churches and monasteries in Bucharest to make way for the Civic Centre which aroused Western criticism of Ceauşescu 's rule on a grand scale . |
| 6 | At the same time , the Ulster Farmers ' Union was in Brussels to seek answers about the Commission 's decision to break its own rules by refusing meat-traders in the province the chance to submit an intervention tender in late August . |
| 7 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 8 | The Petition Committee , set up in February to gain support for the memorandum , appealed to the Labour , Liberal and Cooperative Parties , for the " parties of progress to work together " . |
| 9 | Negotiations with other Anglican Franciscan orders led to the formation of the Society of St Francis ( 1936 ) , and Father Algy moved to Cerne Abbes in Dorset to take charge of the Home of St Francis at Hilfield , where Brother Douglas Downes had established a brotherhood for work among tramps in 1921 . |
| 10 | She had returned to El Salvador in January to collect evidence on the use of chemical weapons by the Salvadorean army , in order to present a report to the United Nations . |
| 11 | The IMF on Feb. 20 approved the draft agreement negotiated in January to provide loans to the Philippines totalling 629,400,000 special drawing rights ( US$916,000,000 ) . |
| 12 | He was also invited to attend a seminar in Leningrad to review progress in the recovery of materials damaged in the disastrous fire in the Academy of Sciences Library in 1988 . |
| 13 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 14 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 15 | Ellen Galford joins the queues in Scotland to buy heritage over the counter |
| 16 | It was expected to ascertain whether the Uttar Pradesh government had violated two court orders by granting permission to Hindu militants in July to start work on the construction of a Hindu temple [ see p. 39008 ] . |
| 17 | On July 20 a group of French inspectors arrived in Ukraine to monitor implementation of the treaty , marking the start of an intensive 120-day period of mutual " baseline inspections " to establish current holdings in each country . |
| 18 | Finally , if you watched our series , ’ Inside The Globe ’ earlier this year , you may remember the two contestants we followed from their home in Wiltshire to take part in the quiz show , Blockbusters . |
| 19 | On Aug. 13-14 an extraordinary session of the UN Human Rights Commission was held in Geneva to examine events in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | Plans in August to become tutor to the children of a Derbyshire widow called Elizabeth Evans quickly foundered ( although Mrs Evans greatly admired Coleridge ) , and by the beginning of September he was speaking in decided terms of opening a day-school in Derby . |
| 21 | ONLY four people turned up at a public meeting in Machynlleth to finalise arrangements for the town 's summer play scheme for local schoolchildren . |
| 22 | It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth . |
| 23 | Put your best foot forward and walk all or part of a 25 mile route from London to Ware in Hertfordshire to raise money for the Heart Research Charity . |
| 24 | After joining Harp Lager at Alton in Hampshire in 1962 , Tony successfully launched the dispense of Draught Harp in the south , then transferred to Harp Lager in Manchester to continue development of the product in the north . |
| 25 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |
| 26 | The Imperial Japanese Navy still had several capital ships under construction when the Pearl Harbor fleet sailed , they were well aware of the American strength and had to , hopefully , deal a knock-out blow in Hawaii to allow supremacy in the Pacific . |
| 27 | Given the primitive road system connecting Belgrade with the interior , it was impossible for a garrison of 5,000 troops in Belgrade to maintain order without the support of the Serbian knezovi . |
| 28 | More important , it has begun to restore some of the credibility of traffic management systems eroded by the failure of the ageing CITRAC system used by police in Glasgow to control traffic on the M8 and its complex network of junctions in the city . |
| 29 | A team of experts will visit India in April to assess implementation of the conditions , and the decision to continue funding for the project will then be reviewed . |
| 30 | When in 1732 , to quote only two British cases , the representative of George II in Turin was promoted from minister plenipotentiary to full ambassador , this was a clear indication of a desire in London to improve relations between the two states ( especially as the diplomat in question was an earl ) , while simultaneously the strained Anglo-Prussian relations of the 1730s were reflected in the fact that Britain was represented in Berlin throughout the decade by a mere secretary ( and he a humble army captain ) . |