Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's Jesus Christ Superstar , demobbed from Vietnam and back in LA to ride the big wave . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | SEVENTY years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun , people are now able to come ‘ face to face ’ with the king 's mummy in a fascinating new exhibition now open in Dorchester to mark the 70th Anniversary of the discovery of the young pharaoh 's tomb . |
| 13 | ICI is due to open a manufacturing plant in Runcorn in 1991 , and Du Pont is building a plant in Texas to produce the new alternative in 1991 . |
| 14 | His grace together with his wife Lady Powis and the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire Alex Carlisle were among a large group of guests who gathered in Welshpool to see the official opening of the ‘ new ’ Raven Square station buildings . |
| 15 | His East German counterpart Lothar de Maizière ) , who was in Hungary to commemorate the 1989 East German exodus through the open Austria-Hungary border which had helped topple the East German communist regime , promised trilateral Hungarian , East German and West German talks on the issue . |
| 16 | David Ashwood , non perishables senior supervisor at Hoddesdon depot , is the first person in JS to pass the supervisory course foundations in logistics management run by the Institute of Logistics Distribution Management . |
| 17 | The refugee issue prompted the Hungarian government in February to abrogate the 1979 treaty with Romania which prevented dual citizenship , which meant that refugees could maintain dual Hungarian-Romanian citizenship [ see also below for relations with Hungary ] . |
| 18 | A self-styled ‘ independent Democrat ’ who was appointed in December to fill the empty Senate seat , Mr Krueger is no stereotypical Texan ; he is a reserved , scholarly type who earned his doctorate at Oxford ( Merton College ) , taught Shakespeare at Duke University for 12 years , and was ambassador to Mexico under Jimmy Carter . |
| 19 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 20 | Though some Americans went on a spending spree in December to beat the new tax , its introduction will almost certainly hurt sales in 1991 . |
| 21 | The aims of the new mental health task force , set up in January to monitor the mental health service modernisation programme ( p 000 ) , seem sensible , but if central data on the programme had been collected all along the team would not now have to go to the districts for information . |
| 22 | No one could say for sure if Robert of Gloucester would support Stephen , or if he would remain in Normandy to throw the considerable weight of his position , wealth and experience behind his half-sister . |
| 23 | It intends to create a new conservation agency in Scotland to replace the existing Countryside Commission for Scotland and Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland . |
| 24 | On 15 March a joint meeting of representatives of the ECA and State Department was held in Washington to discuss the Korean economy . |
| 25 | AFTER celebrations at Coventry in May to mark the 100th meeting , the British Aviation Preservation Council 's 101st quarterly conference , staged at the RAF Museum at Hendon on August 22 , returned to its usual format , reports Trevor Green . |
| 26 | In London and Liverpool on Friday the final details of the events to be held in May to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic , the longest campaign of the Second World War , will be revealed . |
| 27 | The oil company Amoco agreed in May to pay the French government US$300 million in damages relating to the wreck of its tanker , Amoco Cadiz , and the consequent oil spill , off Brittany in 1978 [ see pp. 29216-18 ] . |
| 28 | THE formation of a single national governing body for squash in Ireland to replace the Irish Squash Association and Irish Women 's Squash Racquets Association will be announced in Dublin tomorrow . |
| 29 | And then she nearly tops it reclaiming Lloyd-Webber 's ‘ Do n't Cry For Me Argentina ’ ( the song she used to sing in talent contests in Ireland to please the old ladies ) from the showbiz scrapheap — softly , gently , poignantly . |
| 30 | He pulled out the battered sea captain 's telescope that he had bought in Caen to replace the expensive glass that he had lost after Toulouse . |