Example sentences of "in [noun prp] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Western banks regarded Romania as a good risk : cynically , they judged that Ceauşescu would keep the lid on the pot in Romania in a way that Gierek had manifestly failed to do in Poland .
3 So I think that you could say that I arrived in Jesselton in a mood of pleasurable anticipation .
4 Meanwhile SOC forces were reported to have used Soviet-supplied helicopter gunships for the first time in March in an attack on Khmer Rouge positions around Pailin .
5 Mud is being pumped out of the land-locked Alderfen Broad in Norfolk in an attempt to restore a rich water plant community and a healthy fish population .
6 Sefton Council officers are considering proposals to introduce the fun figures in Southport in a bid to help rejuvenate the town 's shabby seafront area .
7 Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open .
8 Whether that will still be the case come the annual summer meeting on June 25 if England lose badly against Brazil and then against Germany in Detroit in a week 's time must be debatable .
9 Palestinian activists affiliated with PLO chair Yassir Arafat 's Fatah faction had reportedly adopted a strongly anti-Iraqi line , a move which had prompted the Iraqi leadership to deploy guerrillas from the Arab Liberation Front ( ALF ) and the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) in Kuwait in an attempt to control the Palestinian community .
10 Tests are also being carried out in Lyon ( France ) and Seoul ( South Korea ) , and there are plans to market the technology in Brazil in a joint-venture with a local firm .
11 However , in 1933–34 , and although the circumstances were quite different , the university college at Hull used the Cambridge Board 's exceptional arrangement in Bedfordshire in an attempt to exercise Chapter III providing powers in East Yorkshire .
12 I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom .
13 You can trace families in Scotland in a way you can not elsewhere . ’
14 Indeed , with little Serevi masterminding their operations , they have opened up such a lead in this version of the game that the world sevens championship , which will be held in Scotland in a year 's time , could turn out to be distinctly one-sided if the countries at this end of the world do not get their act together very rapidly indeed .
15 Now , the world 's most intensive investigation into the effects of disorders such as anorexia nervosa is about to begin in Scotland in an attempt to find out what can be done to help .
16 Then in December 1971 the Smithsonian Conference was convened in Washington in an attempt to reach agreement , on a multilateral basis , for some new arrangement to perpetuate the adjustable peg system .
17 An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose .
18 The impasse on how to ratify and implement the treaty was resolved in May in a series of bilateral negotiations between the USA on the one hand and Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the other , during which time the two countries ' Presidents , Leonid Kravchuk and Nursultan Nazarbayev , visited Washington .
19 We now possess one over life-size kouros in bronze , found in Piraeus in a cache of statues of various dates and origin .
20 In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands .
21 The parched and exhausted company eventually rendezvoused late in June or early in July in a homestead at Gawler , north of Adelaide .
22 My successor as Chief Inspector was Geoffrey Wilkinson , a pilot of wide experience who fought in Korea in a USAF squadron under the exchange scheme , then flew in operations with the RAF .
23 • Williams was due to carry out urgent tests in England in a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems evident in Phoenix .
24 But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber .
25 But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber .
26 He worked at Jaguars in Coventry in a department called ‘ Human Resources ’ .
27 In February 1914 she scraped together the money for the trip and took lodgings in Montparnasse in a foul-smelling room on the Boulevard Raspail .
28 One week in Orlando in a 3-star hotel …
29 These days , he lives in Singapore in a palace of unimaginable concrete and grandeur . ’
30 He was recaptured a few days later in Liverpool in an operation involving more than 60 police officers and a helicopter .
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