Example sentences of "in [noun prp] be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island .
2 He is able to reveal that Mr Cliburn 's famous victory in Moscow was engineered by one of the judges : Sviatoslav Richter , a great Russian pianist who was in his day a child prodigy .
3 A VISIT to farms in Shrewsbury was arranged for fifteen prospective customers last month to see recent deliveries of 12-week old Continental Cross steers being reared under Excel Beef Package .
4 Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed .
5 And in the creation of unity , unity there 's deep concern about the status of American churches in Romania and obviously the Hungarian church in Romania is affected by that whole process so I would urge you to read that letter to remember the work of Hugh erm and to be aware of , of what the situation is in that part of the world .
6 Two divisions stationed in Romania were withdrawn in 1958 ; no forces are stationed in Bulgaria .
7 Hepper Robinson in Middlesbrough is run by two managers , Alan and Stephen Brown , who are due to receive details of the MBO deal from RE over the weekend .
8 Anchor International which wants to build a £1.25m floodlit complex at Clairville Common in Middlesbrough is pitched against local objectors .
9 Suspicions of a CIA ‘ plant ’ deepened further when word leaked out that the matching of the Lockerbie circuit board fragment with the timers seized in Dakar was based on little more than a photographic comparison . )
10 Recently the Mail Coach Pub in Swindon was attacked by visiting fans .
11 As a sign of this , a statue of Sanjurjo in Pamplona was adorned with one of the red berets which were part of the Carlist uniform .
12 The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones .
13 The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops .
14 The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Chapmangate was built in 1864 on the site of its predecessor of 1813 .
15 The summit at Cancun in Mexico was attended by twenty-two countries ' leaders .
16 A later residence in Northamptonshire was licensed in 1673 for dissenter meetings , in spite of his earlier bad reputation there .
17 When the early , possibly wooden , convent of St Peter in Chichester was replaced in 1075 by a college of secular priests a new church became essential , if only to reinforce the image of episcopal authority .
18 The most recent Powys figure of an average 1.93 LUs/hectare of permanent grassland is the equivalent of 12.9 sheep/hectare , a high overall stocking figure considering that nearly half of the total permanent grassland area in Powys is categorised as rough grazing .
19 The first census of people over 65 in residential care in Leicestershire was undertaken in 1976 , with a second in 1979 .
20 The parish church in Bowmore was reopened after three months of extensive alterations and repairs at the expense of C. Morrison Esq .
21 He says most of the mahogany that 's logged in Brazil is taken from Indian reserves .
22 The town of Heimaey in Iceland was buried under basaltic tephra in a matter of days after the commencement of the eruption of the volcano Helgafell in 1973 .
23 Our study shows that the increase in anal cancer incidence started 20–25 years before the first AIDS patient in Denmark was diagnosed in 1981 .
24 Thus , from 1930–31 , the District 's providing powers in Bedfordshire were limited to urban areas and the Cambridge Board assumed Chapter III powers in those rural areas which had been included in Shearman 's territory between 1927–30 .
25 A retirement in Spain was followed by another win in Belgium and triumph in Monaco .
26 Compulsory military service in Spain was reduced from 12 to nine months from Jan. 1 , 1992 .
27 Will she tell some of her hon. Friends that a recent independent study has shown that if the basis of representation in Scotland were equated with that in England , the Conservative party in Scotland would cease to be an endangered species and become an extinct species ?
28 The first engines to be used in Scotland were erected in 1719 and 1720 , while in 1722 the first engine outside Britain was built in Hungary .
29 Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches .
30 The number of Conservative MPs in Scotland was reduced from 21 to 10 , and the Conservatives lost their last seats in Newcastle upon Tyne , Bradford , Manchester and Leicester .
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