Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision comes against a background of growing concern , in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world , that poorer countries are being used as a dumping ground by companies keen to avoid the more stringent regulations governing toxic waste in force in industrialized states . |
| 2 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
| 3 | The government had provoked opposition protests by twice extending the current parliamentary session by two months , in early February and again in early April , ostensibly because it would take at least six months to complete the registration exercise for a new electoral roll . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Political Union was conceived late in the day , partly in response to the dramatic changes in Central Europe and partly as a complement to EMU designed to placate , if not to satisfy , the European Parliament and those favouring its strengthening . |
| 5 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 6 | This told how the poet , having taken opium , dreamt backwards through time to seek his love in a ballroom , on his way to a medieval scaffold , at a well in ancient Greece and finally at a Witches ’ Sabbath , where her kiss ended in death ( see page 56 ) . |
| 7 | He first went to Paris , but not finding what he wanted there , he moved on to Salerno in southern Italy and then to Sicily , where he learned Arabic . |
| 8 | In a number of dialects in northern England and peripherally in southern Scotland ( J. Milroy , 1982c ) there is a high incidence of noticeably ‘ clear ’ ( palatal ) variants of /l/ , chiefly in pre-vocalic syllable-initial position , but also in other positions . |
| 9 | I agree with what he said about the Association of British Insurers , the insurance industry and the motor car industry , here , in western Europe and increasingly in central Europe — not to mention Japan and Korea . |
| 10 | Hence it seems right to argue , as does Kohn ( 1967 , pp. 99–100 ) , that nationalism and the formation of nation states depend upon the development of popular sovereignty ; that historically , in Western Europe and subsequently in other parts of the world , they emerged in opposition to the existing political arrangements of empires or feudal societies , as aspects of a broad democratic movement . |
| 11 | Morocco immediately occupied the area and has since been harassed by Polisario guerrillas on a broad front in Western Sahara and also inside Morocco proper . |