Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ‘ relief half-tone ’ appeared in 1854 with a print by Paul Pretsch ( who took out the patent in London ) and de la Rue of ‘ The Scene in Gaeta after the Explosion . |
| 2 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 6 | A programme of meetings on the problems of LDCs was to follow the Bangladesh session , including a meeting in Moscow at the end of the month with the Soviet Union and East European countries , meetings in Geneva in late March with Western donor countries , and an international conference scheduled for Paris in September 1990 . |
| 7 | Notable among new political parties in the Russian Federation were the Social Democratic Party of Russia , which had held its founding congress in Moscow on May 4 , when it already claimed over 4,000 members ( including more than 100 USSR and Russian parliamentary deputies ) ; and the Democratic Party of Russia , which had held its founding congress in Moscow at the end of May . |
| 8 | At the coronation , which took place in Moscow at the end of August 1856 , Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , quizzed gentry representatives from many parts of the empire on the question of emancipation and found sympathy for the idea only among the north-westerners whose feelings on the matter had already been communicated to the tsar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 11 | Concern was felt over ambitions that might be stimulated in Moscow with the result that Korea could become a focal point of tension . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Mr Hermann Axen , the former politburo member responsible for foreign policy , is in Moscow for an eye operation and so avoided arrest . |
| 14 | Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic . |
| 15 | The Chinese deputy premier Li Peng , who was in Moscow for the occasion , publicly agreed that an improvement in relations was desirable ; an agreement on educational exchanges and a trade pact followed later in the year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Najibullah held talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow during a visit on July 29-Aug. 25 , 1990 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A rally in Moscow on the evening of March 17 attracted about 70,000 demonstrators who called for the restoration of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | The July peace agreement designed to end the fighting between Moldova and the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic appeared to be holding on Aug. 7 as Russian and Moldovan leaders began talks in Moscow on the implementation of the accord , and on economic ties . |
| 21 | He had exhibited in Moscow under a pseudonym and been pleased with the critical reaction . |
| 22 | There is scarcely an article published in Moscow concerning the development of Soviet-Latin American trade which does not cite this factor as the principal and most enduring obstacle to the further expansion of commercial relations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The initial order calls for 350 multi-user tax collection systems to be installed in Moscow by the end of the year . |
| 25 | The Communist International appeared to substantiate these claims at its Seventh World Congress held in Moscow in the middle of 1935 . |
| 26 | At the 28th Congress of the CPSU in Moscow in the summer of 1990 , it was already obvious that the 20 million party members had begun to splinter into fractions . |
| 27 | They also agreed to hold further talks in Moscow in the summer of 1991 . |
| 28 | During a recent holiday in Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ) , proposed one-night stay in Pontianak on the west coast degenerated into a forced stop of eight days , due to the closure of the airport because of smoke pollution . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running . |