Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 6 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The government appointed by Djohar in March held out hopes of national reconciliation . |
| 10 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
| 11 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The stabbing of a German by a Romanian on Sept. 14 in Wismar sparked off a week of attacks against a hostel in the town . |
| 15 | THE FLOOD of refugees fleeing the escalating conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina took on crisis proportions at the weekend . |
| 16 | The assassinations in Tunis sparked off angry protest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , in defiance of widespread curfews imposed by the Israeli occupying authorities . |
| 17 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 18 | ( Fuel prices , however , were in February increased by between 16 and 20.5 per cent . ) |
| 19 | The high incidence in Seascale occurred over an extended period , and we are not sure whether this could be explained by Kinlen hypothesis . |
| 20 | A shift in the weather pattern , bringing low pressure systems across the Alps in December laid down a firm base . |
| 21 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 22 | DR GEORGE Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia took on the unenviable task of ‘ harvesting ’ sweat from the acrid armpits of scores of male volunteers . |
| 23 | Whilst on a tour of South Africa , the rugby team , pictured above , from Loretto School in Scotland met up with staff from Ellerman & Bucknall in Cape Town for what their agenda described as ‘ P&O Day ’ . |
| 24 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 25 | The campaign which Mortimer now led in Scotland turned out to be an ignominious fiasco . |
| 26 | Outbreaks of anti-government protests and of religious violence in several parts of the country in May left up to 300 people dead . |
| 27 | A similar appeal in May turned up new faces , several of whom are still in the reckoning for a place on the under-international panel . |
| 28 | Their defeat by Hong Kong in May sparked off serious disturbances in the streets of Beijing , with Japanese cars and taxis being overturned and foreigners attacked . |
| 29 | At the 1981 Salzburg Easter Festival , the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Salzburg teamed up with Sony , Philips , and the Polygram group to announce the imminent launch of the compact disc . |
| 30 | Also known as Fomorians , hideous demons in Ireland made up of a motley of twisted beast and human flesh , who pre-existed the Great Flood . |