Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed .
2 What was presented in America as a bid to resolve Europe 's economic problems was seen in Moscow as an attempt , using US dollars , to subvert the Soviet hold on eastern Europe , Russia 's hard-won prize in the war .
3 Then quite suddenly he disappeared and turned up in Moscow at a news conference , claiming that he had been kidnapped by MI5 in Italy , drugged , and taken to Britain and held in captivity until he managed to escape .
4 Standing on a wet street corner in Moscow with a fistful of roubles , watching the cabs go by , you soon realize that Soviet taxi drivers have lost all interest in the local currency .
5 Between August and October 1963 , negotiations between the appropriate powers led to a Treaty being signed in Moscow for a partial ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere , in outer space , or under water .
6 Communists in the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest republic , on June 19 convened in Moscow for a conference which became the founding congress of a Russian Federation Communist Party ( CP ) , subordinate to the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) .
7 I 've been asked to reply my right honourable friend the Prime Minister is in Moscow for a series of meetings including meetings with President Yeltsin and Prime Minister .
8 Mr Hermann Axen , the former politburo member responsible for foreign policy , is in Moscow for an eye operation and so avoided arrest .
9 The newspaper Sovietsky Sport reported on July 8 , 1989 , that up to 340 people had been crushed to death in a stand of the Lenin Stadium in Moscow during a football match on Oct. 20 , 1982 .
10 Najibullah held talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow during a visit on July 29-Aug. 25 , 1990 .
11 Truman 's thoughts in this direction were stimulated by advice from Edwin Pauley , then in Moscow on a special mission , that the United States should occupy as much of Korea and Manchuria as possible in the immediate future .
12 He had exhibited in Moscow under a pseudonym and been pleased with the critical reaction .
13 Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War .
14 ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education .
15 After obtaining a B.A. degree in Accountancy from Glasgow College of Technology , Anne Raitt joined British Aerospace in Hull as a trainee accountant for one year .
16 If the twenty-year gap in output apparent in the manuscript is real , it may be accounted for by the rise in influence of those hostile to the complex , polyphonic settings of Scottish church music , one of whom named the chapel royal in Stirling as an example .
17 Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion .
18 His involvement with bridge building started in 1767 , when he was appointed surveyor to direct the widening of the English bridge in Shrewsbury to a design by Robert Mylne [ q.v. ] and then , when that project was abandoned , submitted a design for the new bridge which was rejected in favour of that by John Gwynn [ q.v . ] .
19 Meanwhile , up to 100 jobs will be created in Newry by a European inward investor .
20 Another soldier died and 11 were injured in Newry in a similar and simultaneous attack .
21 Dai Jones remembered when he had to go to his cousin in Llandidloes for a bucket to mix the dyes , ‘ because there was no money to buy one , and money was owed everywhere . ’
22 Youth workers from all over North Yorkshire will meet today at the Galtres Centre in Easingwold for a special conference on smoking .
23 His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist .
24 Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific .
25 Next month he will commute from his home in Fulham to a club in Hamburg , where he will prepare for the grass-court season by playing on clay for a club in the Second Division of the German League .
26 She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses .
27 In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 .
28 To improve , she attended an art class in Sheffield for a short time .
29 Elizabeth Newman , course tutor , ( who also lectures in the Department of Linguistics ) has arranged teaching practice in schools with qualified , experienced ESL teachers on the staff , which has meant that not all the schools in Sheffield with a high proportion of ethnic minority pupils are suitable .
30 Next to me an elderly couple were reading a story in Paris-Normandie about a charcutier , fou d'amour , who had killed a family of seven .
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