Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 2 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 3 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 4 | Baker and Bessmertnykh failed during talks in Geneva on June 7 and in Berlin on June 20 to settle remaining differences over a strategic arms reduction treaty ( START ) [ see pp. 37979 ; p. 38255 ] . |
| 5 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 6 | This point arose for decision in South Carolina Insurance Co . |
| 7 | Further , the growth of a discourse of formal political representation and its implementation in the 1867 Reform Act , made politicians uneasy about the political power wielded by civil servants , especially when they operated as statesmen in disguise . |
| 8 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 9 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 10 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 11 | It provided for cuts in support prices to reduce overproduction , and payment of compensation directly to farmers , on condition that all but the smallest farmers " set aside " 15 per cent of their land from production . |
| 12 | Goods are traded and swopped for items in demand or for services . |
| 13 | When he reported for duty in Simla , then the headquarters of the meteorological department , he had no knowledge of the subject ; he had to learn it by reading , guided by senior staff . |
| 14 | They stopped for lunch in Bamburgh , where their table in the small restaurant had a view of the castle set on a crag above the village . |
| 15 | Both Orton and Vera Chirwa trained as lawyers in Britain during the 1950s . |
| 16 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |
| 17 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 18 | An inquest on May 22 , 1990 , into the deaths of 45 people when a British Midland Boeing 737 crashed near Kegworth in December 1988 [ see p. 36410 ] returned a verdict of accidental death , discounting negligence on the part of pilot and crew ( who , amid the confusion , had turned off the functioning engine instead of the one that had caught fire ) . |
| 19 | Communal tensions rose throughout India in October , prompted by a complex dispute over a religious shrine at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 20 | The anti-government mood in the streets of Bamako , the capital , and other main towns , which erupted into rioting in January [ see p. 37947 ] , persisted into February , amid continuing demands from opposition groups for multiparty democracy . |
| 21 | It was the worst violence since a 23-nation task force , headed by the United States , moved into Somalia in December under a United Nations mandate to end gun law and the looting of food aid for an estimated two million starving Somalis . |
| 22 | It was the worst violence since a 23-nation task force , headed by the US , moved into Somalia in December under a UN mandate to end gun law and the looting of food aid for an estimated two million starving Somalis . |
| 23 | How old were you when you moved into Street in Palfry ? |
| 24 | Instead Ramsey moved into lodgings in Newnham ( 45 Owlstone Road ) . |
| 25 | The party 's leaders fled into exile in China , while the leaders of the mutiny entered into discussions with the government . |
| 26 | To this extent it is the same process that we encountered with NBFIs in section 4.2 and is a further indication of the way in which continuous innovation affects the ‘ information content ’ of key indicators . |
| 27 | The United Nations could take political action through the General Assembly and Security Council against a State which entered into agreements in conflict with its Charter . |
| 28 | The treaty which entered into force in June 1988 was the most far-reaching arms agreement to date . |
| 29 | Then , he mingled with people in Belfast 's city centre during pouring rain and chatted with pupils of Deramore High School . |
| 30 | When Penda fled before Oswald in Oswald 's final campaign and took refuge among the Welsh , the northern Anglian king advanced no further than the vicinity ( possibly ) of Old Oswestry ( see below , p. 90 ) . |