Example sentences of "in london [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Scottish freeholders were involved in colonial trade and the plantation economy of the West Indies and , as might be expected , they saw their member of parliament 's influence in London as a route to obtaining the advantages which they desired in the colonies . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he was honest enough to give credit where it was due : he had great respect for Johann Christian Bach ( son of Johann Sebastian ) , whom he met in London as a child ; Joseph Haydn , whom he revered above all other contemporaries ; and a few others less well known today . |
| 3 | Sir Daniel Macnee , Scotland 's leading portrait painter of his day and President of the Royal Scottish Academy , painted boxes at Cumnock as a young man , and William Leighton Leitch who worked first in Cumnock and then for the Smith brothers , later found fame in London as a water-colourist and for over 20 years visited Buckingham Palace and other royal residences where he taught painting to Queen Victoria and her family . |
| 4 | Labour 's inability to make progress in London as a whole compared with 1986 disguised sharp differences between the boroughs . |
| 5 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 6 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 7 | The inquiry noted a relatively small number of community mental health services in London as a whole . |
| 8 | Charles Booth between 1886 and 1902 surveyed , first , poverty in East London , and then in London as a whole . |
| 9 | In London as a whole , 370,000 houses are seriously unsatisfactory ( many of them " unfit " ) . |
| 10 | This system of healing was discovered by Edward Bach , a doctor who had practised for over 20 years in London as a consultant , bacteriologist and homoeopath . |
| 11 | Is the Minister aware that many people in London are deeply disturbed by the increasing incidence of asthma among children , but that the Minister for Health has been unable to give figures relating to the level of asthma suffering in London as a result of air pollution , which is caused mainly by vehicles ? |
| 12 | He is on leave from his order , and currently works in London as a counsellor for people with AIDS . |
| 13 | Some haggling ensued , but Combes , who was originally from Broad Chalke and had made good in London as a mercer , wanted to show his village just how well he had done . |
| 14 | He joined the Young Communist League , and although he did attend lectures , he used his time in London as an opportunity to deepen his commitment to the abolition of poverty by establishing communism in England . |
| 15 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 16 | Alice entered the competition in London under a stage name Lavender Lee . |
| 17 | There 's been a show running in London for a while called ‘ Good Rockin' Tonight ’ which is the story — probably a touch glamorised , since he wrote it himself — of Jack Good , the ‘ discoverer ’ of many of the British rock'n'roll legends , including Cliff Richard , Billy Fury and Marty Wilde . |
| 18 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 19 | About this time , the Reichmanns divested themselves of their English Properties company in London for a profit of £90 million . |
| 20 | Each year old comrades gather in London for a reunion dinner . |
| 21 | After graduation I worked in London for a couple of years , but in 1985 a decision had to be made : my husband had just finished a sixmonth intensive training course at the Thatching Advisory Service in Berkshire . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm back in London for a couple of nights . |
| 23 | Tom and Faye 's parents were living in London for a year , and most of Bill 's family lived in Cairns , so there was to be no Russell or Hamilton family Christmas this year . |
| 24 | A leader in the Times Higher Education Supplement called the plan to abolish the ILEA ‘ a disgraceful measure that plainly verges on maladministration ’ , and went on to claim that the abolition ‘ will set back education in London for a generation ’ . |
| 25 | Birgit Nilsson was in London for a dinner to pay tribute to Christopher Raeburn . |
| 26 | Lisa 's nightmare escalated in the summer of 1990 when Janet , 36 , took her to St Bartholomew 's Hospital in London for a routine checkup . |
| 27 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 28 | It transpires that Miss Lewis and Mr Wyatt cohabited in London for a brace of years . |
| 29 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 30 | I am with my mother , stepfather and half brother who are in London for a week . |