Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 2 | What was presented in America as a bid to resolve Europe 's economic problems was seen in Moscow as an attempt , using US dollars , to subvert the Soviet hold on eastern Europe , Russia 's hard-won prize in the war . |
| 3 | Then quite suddenly he disappeared and turned up in Moscow at a news conference , claiming that he had been kidnapped by MI5 in Italy , drugged , and taken to Britain and held in captivity until he managed to escape . |
| 4 | Standing on a wet street corner in Moscow with a fistful of roubles , watching the cabs go by , you soon realize that Soviet taxi drivers have lost all interest in the local currency . |
| 5 | I 've been asked to reply my right honourable friend the Prime Minister is in Moscow for a series of meetings including meetings with President Yeltsin and Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Communists in the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest republic , on June 19 convened in Moscow for a conference which became the founding congress of a Russian Federation Communist Party ( CP ) , subordinate to the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 7 | Mr Hermann Axen , the former politburo member responsible for foreign policy , is in Moscow for an eye operation and so avoided arrest . |
| 8 | The newspaper Sovietsky Sport reported on July 8 , 1989 , that up to 340 people had been crushed to death in a stand of the Lenin Stadium in Moscow during a football match on Oct. 20 , 1982 . |
| 9 | Najibullah held talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow during a visit on July 29-Aug. 25 , 1990 . |
| 10 | He had exhibited in Moscow under a pseudonym and been pleased with the critical reaction . |
| 11 | Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War . |
| 12 | ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education . |
| 13 | After obtaining a B.A. degree in Accountancy from Glasgow College of Technology , Anne Raitt joined British Aerospace in Hull as a trainee accountant for one year . |
| 14 | If the twenty-year gap in output apparent in the manuscript is real , it may be accounted for by the rise in influence of those hostile to the complex , polyphonic settings of Scottish church music , one of whom named the chapel royal in Stirling as an example . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 16 | His involvement with bridge building started in 1767 , when he was appointed surveyor to direct the widening of the English bridge in Shrewsbury to a design by Robert Mylne [ q.v. ] and then , when that project was abandoned , submitted a design for the new bridge which was rejected in favour of that by John Gwynn [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | Dai Jones remembered when he had to go to his cousin in Llandidloes for a bucket to mix the dyes , ‘ because there was no money to buy one , and money was owed everywhere . ’ |
| 18 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 19 | Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific . |
| 20 | Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League . |
| 21 | She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses . |
| 22 | Next to me an elderly couple were reading a story in Paris-Normandie about a charcutier , fou d'amour , who had killed a family of seven . |
| 23 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 24 | The turnout in Germany as a whole was 77.8 per cent ; that in western Germany was 78.6 per cent ( as compared with 84.3 per cent in 1987 — see pp. 35014-15 ) ; that in eastern Germany ( where voters had gone to the polls three times in the previous nine months — see pp. 37300-03 ; 37467 ; 37762 ) was 74.7 per cent . |
| 25 | Yeah possibly but I do n't think they , do , they do n't , I mean they , they lived in Germany for a while have n't they , so , I do n't think , oh no , did n't they go to Cyprus one year Pete and Colin or am I dreaming ? |
| 26 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 27 | He was received with honour by Archbishop Hermann of Cologne and Emperor Henry III , remained in Germany for a year , and was presented , among other gifts , with a psalter and sacramentary sent there by Canute [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | I have lived in Germany for a year now , all the time . |
| 29 | In fact you can do just about anything in Germany with a GTF Go-As-You-Please holiday . |
| 30 | Brannen , should he win with fewer 7,850 points , would have the chance to chase the Olympic standard in Germany in a fortnight 's time a week before the selection deadline , which has been extended from its original date , June 7 . |