Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well for the government in Moscow to lay down severe penalties for its servants who maltreated the natives . |
| 2 | Carolyn Alexander , a parent with two daughters at the Downs School , is in Moscow finding out if the orphans want to return to England : |
| 3 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 4 | Alice took off the cotton dress which was what young mothers wore in Chelmsford to shop in , put on jeans and a black T-shirt , the kind of clothes she would always wear now , through an indefinitely stretching future . |
| 5 | A law to require any manufacturer selling computers in Germany to take back its equipment for reuse or recycling is being drafted for next year , while governments in Denmark and Sweden are considering legislation this spring for mandating some kind of electronics scrap recycling program . |
| 6 | The challenge of the emerging technologies and new media has also led to publishers in Germany setting up a new working group on electronic publishing , the Verleger-Arbeitskreis Elektronisches Publizieren . |
| 7 | Annette Winterbottom and Balbir Shukle with pupils Lewis McLoughlin and Jennifer Webb look on after Newport Primary School in Middlesbrough rolled out the banner yesterday . |
| 8 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 9 | Just as they loved colour , they loved oratory , even when they could not understand it : in 1901 delegates at the Free Church Council meeting in Cardiff stood up to welcome five former French priests . |
| 10 | Bangladeshis in Cardiff live in relatively large groups in small unheated Victorian terraced houses , adapting the pattern of extended family living to the accommodation available . |
| 11 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 12 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 13 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 14 | Technicians at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon walked out when a colleague was sacked for refusing to use a machine that his union had banned . |
| 15 | The area around the Guest House where the body of Christine Campbell was found , hidden in a suitcase , is still the focus of police efforts in Swindon to track down her killer . |
| 16 | Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Bookshop in Colchester spelled out the indirect effects of the Dillons discounting campaign quite graphically : ‘ One person came into the shop and was uncertain about buying Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole because she thought she would be able to buy it cheaper in Dillons . |
| 17 | The government appointed by Djohar in March held out hopes of national reconciliation . |
| 18 | The shadow fundholding exercise was focused in Grampian because of the readiness and willing cooperation of the health board and the enthusiasm of practices of suitable size in Grampian to test out fundholding . |
| 19 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 20 | I wonder if there 's someone in Whitehall making up their names . |
| 21 | In developing its plans for the redeployment of the Army , the General Staff were faced with three major difficulties : lack of genuine air mobility ; loss of overflying rights over Arab countries and restricted overflying of the Indian subcontinent due to India 's ‘ non-aligned ’ stance and Pakistan 's natural sympathy for Moslem Arab Nationalism ; and the justifiable reluctance in Whitehall to build up new overseas bases . |
| 22 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 23 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 24 | I went to the bar racks , the caserna , in Fontanellato to find out when my father was going to be released , but was told that they did not know , for he was in the hands of the Secret Police . |
| 25 | • Long Beach Grand Prix founder Chris Pook arrived in Phoenix to show off elaborate plans for a purpose-built , multi-disciplinary stadium which is scheduled to be built near Dallas next year . |
| 26 | The vessel , which was named after the statue erected by students in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests [ see pp. 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] , left France on March 17 and was due to dock in Taiwan to take on supplies before beginning anti-communist broadcasts from international waters off the coast of China . |
| 27 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 28 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the tyranny that controls education in Nottinghamshire holds back £10 or more for each and every child above that national average , that it is somewhere around two thirds of the way down the merit table for putting resources where they belong — at the school — and sits on about £3 million at the centre , which is the same as holding back £5,000 for every school in the county ? |
| 29 | Palestinians in Gaza live in densely crowded conditions , under a nightly curfew , without freedom of movement , whose nationality is entered in their passports as ‘ Undefined ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |