Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last shoot was the phone card ad , with Zia Mohyeddin , shot in Battersea the day after the first Great Hurricane . |
| 2 | The Congress had rejected the legislation on May 31 , having already defeated in mid-May the government 's attempt to introduce emergency measures to raise taxes on financial transactions ( to restrict the expansion of credit ) and to cut the wages of public employees covered by statutory job security . |
| 3 | The government publicly denied direct involvement in such talks , which had allegedly produced in January the release of the son of Germán Montoya Vélez , the General Secretary of the Presidency , and the offer to " surrender " made by leaders of the cartels in return for government guarantees [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 4 | They know that their personal life is rooted in God the Trinity . |
| 5 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 6 | Based in Warrenpoint the company is involved in the manufacture of Cassetted Ribbons for use in typewriters , word processors , computers and cash registers which are currently being exported to some 27 countries . |
| 7 | Born in Nice the son of a civil servant , Mr Toubon attended the Ecole Nationale de l'Administration in Paris , the graduate school and traditional grooming ground for France 's top politicians . |
| 8 | So she rehearsed the triumphs and achievements of the Thatcher Revolution and laid lavish claim to having lit in Britain the torch of freedom for the whole world . |
| 9 | He believes he has detected in Nottingham the emergence of new types of TMP resistant DHFRs . |
| 10 | Heavy snow had fallen in Frome the day before that , the deepest since 1767 , and conditions were dismal . |
| 11 | Being situated in Farmoor the village is very sought after and residents seem to move within the same village as it is so popular . |
| 12 | The Government have spent billions of pounds on trying to make their tax work — and , of course , it was introduced in Scotland the year before the general election . |
| 13 | In the eighties , Helen Chadwick 's baroque and phantasmagoric vanitas installations , like of ‘ Of Mutability ’ , affirmed in Britain the possibility of celebrating the female body 's metaphorical connections with effluvia , fertility , decomposition , cyclicity and transition . |
| 14 | The progressively more inward-looking and doctrinaire views of Zhdanov which came to pre-eminence within the Soviet Union from 1936 onwards paradoxically encouraged in France the development of a communist " national " literature not overtly preoccupied with Soviet orthodoxy . |
| 15 | Although ‘ service ’ was in one sense effected in Illinois the purpose of , and assumption behind , it was that the documents would be transmitted by VWoA to Germany for the attention of VWAG . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no way we can sit here and waffle , ’ Roxburgh told the press corps which had assembled in Glasgow the morning after the nightmare of Scotland 's 3-0 defeat at the Parc des Princes . |
| 17 | E.g. The annual conference of local Councils of Churches had been held in Dunblane the week before Carberry , at the same time as a Church of Scotland Readers ' Conference at St Ninian 's Perth . |
| 18 | Peter Straus of Hamish-Hamilton , and Giles Gordon , respectively editor and agent to Fatima Meer , whose Mandela biography Higher Than Hope was published in Britain the week after his release , both happily dismiss the possibility of an autobiography . |