Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The nationalist fervour in Romania has fuelled virulent anti-Semitism , a thriving ultra-right , bloody ethnic violence in Transylvania and regular pogroms against the gypsies . |
2 | A FIRE at old people 's flats in Middlesbrough has forced two residents to move in with their families . |
3 | His car has been stolen or broken into 7 times , his home in Swindon has seen numerous burglaries . |
4 | Systems & Processes Engineering Corp down in Texas has got first silicon in its NASA-backed effort to make a 200MHz Gallium Arsenide Sparc module for use in space applications , Electronic Engineering Times reports : Vitesse Semiconductor Corp is acting as foundry . |
5 | Electronic Engineering Times reports that Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation down in Texas has got first silicon in its NASA-backed effort to make a 200MHz gallium arsenide Sparc module for use in space applications . |
6 | The possibility that nitric oxide ( NO ) may be a retrograde messenger in LTP has excited considerable interest . |
7 | The expansion of the Wytch Farm site in Dorset has aroused considerable anxiety from local people and conservation interests , and the Dorset County Council has imposed many hundreds of planning conditions on the developers as a result . |
8 | Just as the publication of the moving image section of the Charter for the Arts in Scotland has received scant attention , the erosion of BBC Scotland 's operational autonomy and the potential denudation of its programme-making resources should be a matter of widespread concern . |
9 | The leech is making a comeback in medicine , according to Roy T sawyer , whose company Biopharm in Swansea has developed medical applications for leeches . |
10 | When one reflects on how unpopular our own Government becomes with a recession which causes GDP to fall by just over 3 per cent from its 1990 peak , it is scarcely surprising that the reform programme in Russia has provoked widespread discontent . |
11 | A parliamentary commission in Ukraine has uncovered gross violations of safety regulations at the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant . |
12 | The agrarian structure in Chile has undergone profound changes during the last twenty years . |
13 | Thirty per cent of the drinking water in Uzbekistan fails to meet minimum health standards , largely as a result of contamination by industrial waste . |
14 | The fighting in Croatia has caused severe damage to numerous environmentally-sensitive areas , according to a report compiled for the International Council for Bird Preservation ( ICBP ) . |
15 | April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods . |
16 | Courtaulds Engineering , based in Coventry continues to win multi-million pound contracts during the recession despite fierce competition . |
17 | Argentina 's foreign debt is $36 billion yet Admiral Gonzalez 's office in Hamburg has had little trouble in raising the cash . |
18 | The Joint Working Group on Youth Work in Lothian has had initial discussions with the aim of developing appropriate strategies for including road safety issues in programmes for young people . |
19 | The Russian ambassador in Kiev has described Ukrainian independence to other diplomats there as a temporary phenomenon , unlikely to last more than another year and a half . |
20 | A GROUP set up to protect abused children in Cleveland has drafted new guidelines . |
21 | A survey carried out by trading standards officers in Warwickshire has found significant traces of pesticides in six out of 16 samples of food labelled as organic on sale in retail outlets . |
22 | B. Y. Yeong of ICM Chemical in Malaysia has won first prize in the utility innovation category at last year 's Malaysian Invention and Design Society exhibition . |
23 | The language of parliamentary debate in Britain has reflected this change . |
24 | Higher education in Britain has required special forms of organization designed to take into account the fact that many colleges serve more that the local authority area in which they are based , and to acknowledge the special claims to autonomy of the universities . |
25 | Clearly , people 's reports of communication difficulties and the actual difficulties encountered are different , as research on sign language in Britain has found one sign language , called BSL , albeit with dialectal differences . |
26 | A SCOTTISH botanist who has devoted his life to cultivating rare South Sea orchids in Britain has won public recognition for his work — thanks to the Royal Mail . |
27 | Today , the Front National in France has achieved electoral success and national prominence , which would have seemed incredible fifteen years ago . |
28 | Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs . |
29 | By comparison , a similar situation in Japan has fuelled little public outrage . |
30 | The meaning of the decision in Lonrho has produced radical differences of opinion in courts here and abroad . |