Example sentences of "in the [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |
| 2 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 3 | Even a Tatar Khan in the Crimea in the years before the Russian annexation of 1783–84 is said to have wished to rule in terms of ‘ enlightened ’ ideas . |
| 4 | Between 1773 and his death at Kherson in the Ukraine in 1790 , John Howard travelled , mostly on horseback , at least eighty thousand kilometres , and probably a great deal further , as a self-appointed inspector of prisons . |
| 5 | A popular front came into existence in the Ukraine in late 1988 , influenced by concerns about the environment ( and the further development of nuclear power in particular ) as well as by enduring linguistic and other cultural issues . |
| 6 | Sara , in the BBC in Norwich , got two enquiries and Louise , newly returned from overseas , got three . |
| 7 | Few literary sources are more revealing of aristocratic culture than the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum and its off shoot the Gesta Ambaziensium Dominorum , produced in the Touraine in the first six decades of the twelfth century , for the pleasure and edification of the counts of Anjou and their castellans , the lords of Amboise . |
| 8 | She imagined the child Lucenzo , parading in the Piazza in his brocade coat and shiny buckle shoes one year , then finding himself part of a real-life fairy-tale the next . |
| 9 | He was now in the CID in the city and somewhat tentatively asked what subject I was reading . |
| 10 | But this year Jane Campion , a New Zealand-born director , was deservedly a joint winner of the Golden Palm with ‘ The Piano ’ , an ambitious period study set in the Antipodes in the 1850s . |
| 11 | With the co-operation of Edmund Poole , until his enlistment in the RAF in 1941 , Hampden Jackson and seven young graduates augmented by about thirty part-time tutors increased course provision from thirty-five classes in 1939–40 to almost ninety in 1945 . |
| 12 | Its been told in a book by aviation writer Wilf Pereira who served in the RAF in World War Two and remembers when it was a strip of grass at daily peril from German bombers . |
| 13 | They formed the great bulk of the riotous crowd in 1749 who , after three sailors had been robbed in a brothel , rioted and burned down bawdy houses in the Strand in a three-day riot , although the only unfortunate Tyburn example made on this occasion was the improbably named Bosavern Penlez , a wig maker . |
| 14 | The Upland Landscapes Study based its survey on 12 parishes , all in the LFAs in England and Wales . |
| 15 | In order to reduce the conflict between agriculture and nature conservation in the LFAs in the UK , an upper limit on livestock per farm attracting HLCA 's could be fixed at about 50 livestock units ( 50 cattle or 333 sheep ) . |
| 16 | Article 17 — the provision of aid to assist joint investment schemes by farmers for fodder production and for ‘ the improvement and equipping of pastures ’ , perhaps also drainage — could have implications in the LFAs in the UK but the existing , very similar provisions have not been widely taken up . |
| 17 | Chapter 6 details the various financial aids provided in the LFAs in France and the UK — compensatory allowances , investment aids , and other EEC and national measures — and assesses the differences between the two countries . |
| 18 | The Slavs first appeared in the Balkans in the late fourth century AD as marauders who raided the Romanised settlements south of the Danube from their temporary resting place in Hungary . |
| 19 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 20 | While the rest of the European team were competing in the Lancome in Paris the Welshman was finishing second in the Sapporo Open in Tokyo . |
| 21 | This was clearly demonstrated in the Alps in what were half humorously called " leptogeosynclines " , that is troughs with very little sediment . |
| 22 | Speaking during the special one-day debate on Northern Ireland in the Dail in Dublin , Mr Reynolds strongly denied that terrorists found safe haven in the Irish Republic . |
| 23 | AS A PUBLIC SERVICE , AND AS AN EXPRESSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH PHOENIX MAGAZINE , WE PUBLISH THE ARTICLE AS READ OUT IN THE DAIL IN FULL IN THESE PAGES . |
| 24 | These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) . |
| 25 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 26 | On the there was me Ian and Noel all sleeping in the Ian in the middle . |
| 27 | A trust has been set up in the wake of the tragic Pakistan International Airlines crash in the Himalaya in memory of outdoor pursuits lecturer Brian Rollins ( aged 40 ) , who was on board . |
| 28 | The name ‘ Institute of Education ’ has been used in African universities to describe institutes which do little except train secondary school teachers , but in the sense of a professional centre concerned with various aspects of quality both of teachers and the curriculum they teach , it was first used in Bakht Er Ruda in the Sudan in the 1930's . |
| 29 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 30 | They also advocate the delights of ‘ orgasmic valleys ’ , which I suspect are different from the kind you find in the Rhondda in Wales . |