Example sentences of "in [noun prp] and [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 2 | On June 22 , OMON ( special Interior Ministry forces ) and militia numbering 10,000 dispersed a mass " anti-fascist rally " at the Ostankino television centre in Moscow and in the city centre . |
| 3 | Sources said top administration officials told politicians in a closed briefing on Wednesday that one of their greatest worries was that a long-term American occupation would turn opinion both in Panama and throughout the region against the new government . |
| 4 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |
| 5 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 6 | In the sixteen months between Britain 's application and its rejection by de Gaulle , a body of opinion was created in Whitehall and amongst the electorate that looked forward to Britain becoming more closely linked to Europe for a variety of reasons ; one of which was to reduce America 's dominance in the West 's military affairs . |
| 7 | It 's alright for some to be able to buy private health care , and then the rest of us can have a diminishing and reducing National Health Service both in Nottinghamshire and throughout the rest of the country . |
| 8 | The Spanish influence in Central America is reflected in the wide use of olives in Mexican food and some crops are grown in Mexico and on the west coast of the USA . |
| 9 | Demanded that Iraq " rescind its orders for the closure " of diplomatic and consular offices in Kuwait and for the withdrawal of diplomatic immunity from their staff . |
| 10 | That this aetheling could find refuge in Surrey and among the South Saxons suggests a change in the situation in the south-east since Ine 's earlier years as king . |
| 11 | Would it not be a disaster if families in my constituency in Leicestershire and throughout the country faced the huge tax increases proposed by Labour and the Liberals ? |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware of the continuing violence against rural workers ' leaders and their supporters in Brazil and of the fact that according to recent evidence from the Brazilian Church 's Pastoral Land Commission since 1964 , 1,667 rural workers have been murdered , that there have been 23 trials and only 13 sentences ? |
| 13 | In sculpture there are the magnificent and intricately carved facades of the church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande in Poitiers and of the cathedral at Angoulême . |
| 14 | In the Islamic communities of the savannah religious reformation tended to reinforce entrepreneurial skill , as demonstrated by the Murid Brotherhood in Senegal and in the development of the ‘ Reformed Tijianiya ’ ( a more fundamentalist and anti-colonial Islamic movement ) which also originated in Senegal but spread through much of the savannah in the 1930s . |
| 15 | The same Yorkshire beaches , together with foreshores in Dorset and along the east coast of Scotland , can also hold valuable fossils . |
| 16 | And , although Steve Smith Eccles partnered Halkopous to a smooth victory at Newcastle , trainer Mark Tompkins yesterday confirmed that Maguire will be on board when Halkopous attempts to further his reputation in the Irish Champion at Leopardstown in January and at the Festival . |
| 17 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 18 | Geoffrey held large estates in Poitou and in the Saintonge — as well as an important fief , the lordship of Marcillac , as a vassal of the Counts of Angoulême . |
| 19 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |
| 20 | Soon after his arrival , Souness reversed the dominant trend of football transfers by bringing expensive English stars to play in Scotland and towards the end of 1988 , the club was the subject of an inspirational takeover bid which made Souness and his personal friend , the business man David Murray , the new owners of the club . |
| 21 | I am glad that he has drawn the attention of the House to the situation in Scotland and to the law of Scotland , which in so many ways is superior to that of England . |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the CBI , in Scotland and in the rest of the United Kingdom , is keen to see flexibility in our social standards and would not wish Scotland to be signed up to a social charter restricting the freedom of workers and employers alike , who look forward to continuing to be a magnet for inward investment from Japan and from the rest of the European Community ? |
| 23 | Education is a top-tier service in Scotland and in the shire counties , and , after much controversy , a district and borough service in the metropolitan areas and London . |
| 24 | Such examples ( and they are legion in Scotland and throughout the rest of the world ) serve to reaffirm the points made by Kirkpatrick : that existing local institutions and personnel matter crucially , and that the outcomes of projects and their relationship with planning in the broader sense may either establish their continuation or sound a death-knell for their future existence . |
| 25 | In a robust defence of the sector , Mr Scott said it performed outstandingly for its clients in Scotland and throughout the world . |
| 26 | Ethical approval to scrutinise hospital records was obtained from ethics committees of all health boards in Scotland and from the privacy committee of the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 27 | He is reported to be in the process of responding to offers of employment from other theatres in Ireland and across the water , and to be keen to return to the Lyric from time to time . |
| 28 | One must also remember that the bulk of the clergy both in Ireland and in the remainder of catholic Europe came from rural backgrounds , where the sense of God is , or was , part of the air one breathes ( Acquaviva 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 30 | Reacting both against existing conditions in Russia and against the prospect of capitalist development they built upon the specifically Russian socialism adumbrated by the Petrashevtsy and spelled out by Herzen . |