Example sentences of "in [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods . |
| 2 | Sir Hector was in Lerwick to open the refurbished and extended fishmarket . |
| 3 | A parliamentary commission of investigation was set up in Brandenburg to examine the past links between Minister President Manfred Stolpe ( SPD ) and the Stasi ( state security police ) , after Stolpe had admitted in the press to having had numerous clandestine contacts with the Stasi under the pre-unification communist regime . |
| 4 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 5 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
| 6 | On 21 September , at Franco 's request , a meeting of the Defence Committee was called in Salamanca to discuss the military and political conduct of the war . |
| 7 | Firstly they could be painted in camouflage to lessen the visual impact or alternatively , they could be dispersed among trees and in copses , so as to be out of sight from the very well used coast paths . |
| 8 | On July 19 an estimated 60,000 people attended a Sandinista rally in Managua to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship . |
| 9 | In applications of this kind the authors argue that geographic information management in general and GIS in particular have an important role to play and they give a number of examples from research in progress to illustrate the current state of the art in this field . |
| 10 | Willie John McBride 's side was the most successful touring side to leave these islands , and a big drive is now in progress to bring the 35-man party back together again . |
| 11 | Experiments are now in progress to isolate the trans-acting factors described in this report and to further analyse the nature of its interactions with the upstream RARE-binding factors . |
| 12 | This was both for the hell of it , as well as for the annals of the newly developing discipline of psycho-anthropology , whose aims are in part to define the global range of human ability . |
| 13 | In part to complement the broad-based approach towards co-ordination developed within the CATS , the Inner City Initiative was launched in 1986 to increase Private-sector investment in small urban areas that were subject to high unemployment rates . |
| 14 | The appointment of Karoui as Prime Minister in September 1989 ( see p. 36905 ) was intended in part to accelerate the economic reforms which his predecessor , Baccouche , fearing the political and social risks of further austerity measures , had been reluctant to implement . |
| 15 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 16 | In contrast to CREM the available evidence indicates that ATF1 is a transcriptional activator and shares many structural properties with CREB . |
| 17 | It was here that the Toraja believed their first ancestors had descended from the Pleiades in starships to populate the verdant valleys into which we now descended . |
| 18 | Indeed , they could have been altered if the Government had not wasted their bargaining power in attempts to defend the indefensible , attack the trivial and obtain the illusory . |
| 19 | Their policies culminated in attempts to turn the young towns into vast cooperative centres , by bringing industry to the settlements . |
| 20 | This can be seen in attempts to divide the contrary themes of ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ into separate levels ; by claiming that one of the contrary themes possesses a deeper psychological significance , one resolves the apparent contradiction . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Palmer was experimenting with different electrolytes-acids and alkalis that carry the current through the cell — including sodium hydroxide , sulphuric acid and traces of other impurities in attempts to mimic the elemental make-up of seawater in the presence of minerals . |
| 22 | The move was widely seen as part of the Socialist Party 's strategy for the regional elections in March to counter the growing popularity of far-right views . |
| 23 | The downsizing cost it Jim Katzman , the big-time venture capitalist who came in as president back in March to run the joint ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 24 | They would work in groups to present the final plan , showing the patients ' needs and the nurses ' needs . |
| 25 | But you 're not there you 're not in parliament to represent the Conservative party , you 're in parliament to represent your constituents . |
| 26 | But there is already a head of steam in parliament to make the proposed voluntary takeover code legally binding . |
| 27 | Some years later , in 1980 , Gorbachev represented the central leadership at a ceremony in Vilnius to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the incorporation of Lithuania into the USSR . |
| 28 | It 's Jesus Christ Superstar , demobbed from Vietnam and back in LA to ride the big wave . |
| 29 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 30 | Mr Millan is speaking at a lunch to be held at the SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels to celebrate the new venture , which is the first official joint undertaking of the two law societies [ which represent solicitors in their two jurisdictions ] . |