Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even for the northern regional championships the players at Cleveland Spastics Centre in Middlesbrough had trained five times a week . |
| 2 | But the optimism of workers at Rover 's Cowley plant in Oxford and the Stratton St Margaret site in Swindon turned to anger 18 months ago , when the European Commission announced that sweeteners worth almost £45m that helped clinch the deal , were illegal and would have to be paid back . |
| 3 | Three farms in Powys had bought extra acres to accommodate sons now on the farm . |
| 4 | One of the buildings totally flattened was the new home of the deaf in the town , so for the second time within the space of one year , the deaf in Exeter had to find new club premises . |
| 5 | Planners in Washington began to put increasing emphasis on nuclear weapons as a way of saving resources without reducing firepower — the " bigger bang for a buck " philosophy . |
| 6 | By the end of the nineteen fifties life in Orkney had come full circle and like everyone else we had acquired a taste for the material things in life . |
| 7 | ANC national executive member Mac Maharaj , whose detention in July had strained ANC-government relations , was charged on Oct. 29 along with eight others with planning to overthrow the government [ see p. 37601 ] . |
| 8 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 9 | A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] . |
| 10 | Early in October a meeting of three An Taisce branches in Donegal agreed to oppose these applications . |
| 11 | Internal autonomy was introduced in Greenland on May 1 , 1979 [ see p. 29692 ] , after 70.1 per cent of registered voters in Greenland had approved this step in a referendum in January 1979 [ see p. 29487 ] . |
| 12 | Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori claimed that " millions of dollars " had been wasted , and that efforts by the US Drug Enforcement Agency to eradicate coca crops in Peru had violated civil rights and been counterproductive , particularly when no alternative economic activity was available . |
| 13 | Their reformist programme , however , quickly got out of hand when workers in Györ began to demand free elections . |
| 14 | In late May , police in Oregon had to reinforce back-road patrols after gunfire erupted in disputes over mushroom grounds . |
| 15 | Kinloch , who from his youth in France had held liberal views , now became actively opposed to the oppressive measures enforced by the authorities acting under the orders of the Tory government . |
| 16 | Priestley 's arrival in Birmingham had given fresh inspiration to the members but his influence , for once , was not beneficial . |
| 17 | Human rights abuses in Iraq had received worldwide attention , but grave violations in countries such as Chad , China , Colombia , Mali , Myanma , Syria and Turkey were accorded little publicity . |
| 18 | There was still no news of Waite , but I read that Archbishop Runcie 's offer to help Iran locate four of its diplomats still missing in Beirut had received official welcome . |
| 19 | Two days later European Community ( EC ) Agriculture Ministers meeting in Belgium agreed to send humanitarian aid , including food and medical supplies , to Iraq . |
| 20 | Ford , whose new £35million movie is a box office smash in America had spent all day shooting the physically demanding scene in a huge water tank in Hollywood . |
| 21 | Archbishop Chrisostomos of Cyprus had warned the governments of Greece and Cyprus against " betraying " the Greek people of Cyprus , and opposition leaders in Greece had made similar statements . |
| 22 | The OPEC president , Algerian Minister for Mines , Saddek Boussena , called for production cuts of 1,000,000-1,500,000 bpd as the production levels in April had reached 23,500,000 bpd . |
| 23 | The Law Society 's Hall in London continued to provide valuable meeting and dining facilities for members , and the banqueting and functions centre was restructured to provide clients with one-stop booking service . |
| 24 | By yielding to the seduction of ‘ international finance ’ instead of following the stern duty of imperial economy , weak and corrupt administrations in London had created Irish poverty and resentment . |
| 25 | The Victoria & Albert Museum in London had expressed some interest . |
| 26 | Leith vetoed the idea before he could voice it — though she had to admit that the idea of living and working in London did have tremendous appeal . |
| 27 | In 1815 , during the making of the Vienna settlement , both the Russian and the Habsburg ambassadors in London tried to use British newspapers to arouse opposition to Castlereagh 's policies and weaken his position in the negotiations . |
| 28 | Back in 1858 , the increase in urban development in Chiswick had required new controls — so the Chiswick Improvement Commissioners were elected by ballot and met in the hall of College House on Chiswick Mall . |
| 29 | A further meeting on April 19 in Belfast agreed to review existing extradition arrangements , following the refusals by the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 and April 6 to extradite from Dublin a number of persons wanted on terrorist offences in Northern Ireland [ see pp. 37329-30 ; 37386 ] . |
| 30 | VALCO became ‘ the most spectacular beneficiary of the tax regime in Ghana devised to attract foreign investment ’ . |