Example sentences of "be [verb] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier funding difficulties [ see p. 37583 ] , had been eased in December 1990 with the successful raising of over £560,000,000 through a rights issue in Paris and London . |
| 2 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 3 | Yoma 's brother Emir Yoma , a presidential aide , had also been dismissed in January after he was implicated in corruption charges . |
| 4 | Mihai Lupoi , who had been dismissed in February 1990 as Minister of Tourism in the provisional NSF government [ see p. 37251 ] , applied for political asylum in Switzerland on July 5 . |
| 5 | Charges of human rights abuses brought against Leigh and 39 other officers had been dismissed in August 1986 when they invoked a 1978 amnesty law [ see p. 34988 ] . |
| 6 | The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup . |
| 7 | With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street . |
| 8 | There was optimism at the beginning of February that the violence which had been waged in Azerbaijan and along its borders with Armenia with such ferocity in the previous month [ see pp. 37168-70 ] might be ended by peace talks between the leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and Armenian Pan-National Front which began in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) on Feb. 1 . |
| 9 | I heard evidence of the one domi domiciliary visit per week of the physiotherapist had been stopped in September because of lack of resources . |
| 10 | By the time bloodshed had been stopped in Dushanbe on Feb. 15 , by the 5,000 Interior Ministry troops in the city assisted by " citizens ' self-defence groups " , official casualty figures spoke of 22 people killed and 565 people injured . |
| 11 | The spacious rooms have large bay windows and cast-iron fireplaces with marble surrounds , and are furnished in Laura Ashley fabrics and antiques . |
| 12 | A county circuit court decision in July 1988 allowing the life support systems to be withdrawn had been overturned in November 1988 by the Missouri Supreme Court in a four-to-three decision . |
| 13 | The previous incumbent had been recalled in January following a dispute between Australia and the government of former President Hammer DeRoburt over the grounding of Air Nauru services and a strike by pilots over operation and safety issues [ see p. 37091 ] . |
| 14 | SOME of the biggest names in Irish literature are to gather in Londonderry next month for a five-day ‘ Languages of Ireland ’ literary festival . |
| 15 | Thus , although Patterson has gellon for ‘ gallon ’ and care for ‘ car ’ , and although similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster rural dialects , our Belfast data show that the rule has receded in an orderly way through a series of environments . |
| 16 | Effectively , then , the two distinctions , which undoubtedly exist within strong syllables , are neutralised in RP . |
| 17 | They unrolled the map which had been tucked in Snodgrass 's cloak and spread it out carefully on the ground . |
| 18 | There is no word-class corresponding to RP/ ? / , so that , for example , the two lexical items in the phrase good food are assigned in Belfast to the same rather than to different classes as in RP /g?d fu:d/ . |
| 19 | Moreover , the fact that the embassy had already been delayed in Dover for a fortnight had cost him 14,000 crowns even before these further disasters . |
| 20 | Yes , I 'm afraid Mike Kirkham has been delayed in Prague for today , so Nigel Spackman , who 's a member of our Committee and is a deferred pensioner is taking his place and Les Taylor is the Secretary of our Maxwell Pension Action Group . |
| 21 | ALEX FERGUSON last night insisted his men had been mugged in Moscow following Manchester United 's disastrous UEFA Cup exit . |
| 22 | ALEX FERGUSON last night insisted his men had been mugged in Moscow following Manchester United 's disastrous UEFA Cup exit . |
| 23 | It is no accident that many slums were built on marshes : Mosside in Manchester , the Bogside in Londonderry , and much of the East End of London , where the suffix ‘ ey ’ to many of the place-names tell us that they were islands in Saxon times : Hackney , Stepney , and , most notorious of all , Bermondsey , where , in the 1850s , the river Neckinger , ‘ the colour of strong green tea ’ , flowed round Jacob 's Island , which was used by Dickens as a setting for Oliver Twist , and was described by him as ‘ the filthiest , the strangest , the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London ’ . |
| 24 | Degenhart and Schmitt 's work has been honoured in Italy with prizes and memberships of several Italian Academies . |
| 25 | Distances between hydrogen-bonding acceptor and donor atoms are given in A. Five carboxyl groups in this cluster are buried inside the protein . |
| 26 | Outlines of acoustic phonetics are given in O'Connor ( 1973 ) , chapter 3 , and Ladefoged ( 1982 ) , chapter 8 . |
| 27 | Apply by letter , with plan , to the regional office — a list of addresses and telephone numbers and a suggested pro forma letter are given in Bourne 's Handbook of Conveyancing Searches mentioned under British Coal searches above , and a list of authorities in Silverman , Searches and Enquiries . |
| 28 | A list of addresses and a suggested pro forma letter are given in Bourne 's Handbook of Conveyancing Searches and in Silverman 's Searches and Enquiries referred to under British Coal searches , above . |
| 29 | A list of addresses of rail offices and telephone numbers of British Rail offices and a suggested pro forma letter are given in Bourne 's Handbook of Conveyancing Searches and Silverman 's Searches and Enquiries referred to under British Coal searches , above . |
| 30 | The results are given in MRP 29 . |