Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |
| 2 | As Jonathan Sher has provided a wide-ranging account of education in rural America it may be sufficient to have two quotations from him — if only as counterpoint to our stereotype from imported films where the lovely young school mistress with an impeccable value system gets the rootin' tootin' cowboy and makes a man of him ! |
| 3 | In one tiny school in rural Bangladesh I saw the children practising their numbers on cut pieces of banana leaf . |
| 4 | Today , in Latin America we have a young movement , a movement which incorporates hundreds of thousands of workers , but which is , from the ideological point of view , very confused and , from the organisational point of view , very weak . |
| 5 | But the pickings could be huge : the audience for RAI 's recorded Italian Sunday football in the United States and Canada may be as high as 50 million , while down in Latin America they hunger for footage of Maradona at almost any price . |
| 6 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 7 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 8 | In nearby Holmfirth you can visit the popular post-card museum , antiques and craft shops . |
| 9 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 10 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 11 | Here in Victorian England they have no antibiotics , and medicine is barely out of the Stone Age . |
| 12 | In Carlist territory monasteries were restored : in liberal Spain they became farms , barracks , schools , ministries , or simply fell into ruins . |
| 13 | In early April it was lonely , cold , wet and empty . |
| 14 | In early April it was reported locally that the government , as part of a proposed 15-point economic programme , was seeking to stabilize the economy without " shocks " , and to promote wide-ranging sectoral agreements to curb inflation ( still running at over 20 per cent a month ) while stimulating production and preserving jobs . |
| 15 | In early March we will be going to the theatre again . |
| 16 | In early May they were received by the British Ambassador in Constantinople . |
| 17 | In April , while on a protracted stay with Janet 's parents in Walsall , she complains of his extremely hard work , and in early May she first states that he is working for Oxford entrance . |
| 18 | In early July he formally announced his decision . |
| 19 | In early October it will be opening a new gallery on the Calle Orfila , Madrid , designed by New York architect Richard Gluckman . |
| 20 | His ministrations had little effect so in early October she flew to London for professional counselling . |
| 21 | In early September he had won a promise from India that anti-Bhutan activity would not be allowed by ethnic Nepalese who had fled Bhutan to West Bengal and Assam . |
| 22 | In early September he denied charges of impropriety after fresh allegations that he had accepted favours from a wealthy property developer . |
| 23 | In early September I went to the wedding of Geoffrey Howe 's daughter , Amanda . |
| 24 | In early December she wrote a letter to The Times complaining about the lies and harassment Diana had endured since the romance became public . |
| 25 | In early February he was transferred to Pinar del Río Provincial Prison after agreeing to give up his protest and end his hunger-strike . |
| 26 | In early June it was reported from the United States that the Bush administration was seeking congressional approval for an additional US$10-15,000,000 in " covert " military aid to UNITA , to supplement a $50,000,000 CIA assistance programme . |
| 27 | On returning from Prague , Mozart had completed his last instrumental piece , the exquisitely melancholy Clarinet Concerto ( originally written for basset-horn ) , for his friend Anton Stadler , and in early November he wrote a short cantata , Kleine Freimaurer-Kantate , K.623 , for a Masonic meeting . |
| 28 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 29 | In early November it was reported that fighters affiliated with the Iranian-backed ( Shia ) Hezb-i-Wahdat faction were engaged in bloody clashes with government forces loyal to Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud . |
| 30 | Whilst the Habsburgs were consolidating their power in central Europe they were confronted on the east by Hungary and in the south by the Venetian republic . |