Example sentences of "london [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernest Coveley , 36 , escaped with £9,205 from building societies in London during a two-month period . |
| 2 | The meeting , originally scheduled for Feb. 11-13 [ see p. 37945 ] , was jointly announced by Bush and Gorbachev on July 17 when they met in London during a brief visit by Gorbachev who had been invited to meet assembled heads of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 3 | The photographs were taken in East London during an artist-in-school residency , but the implications seem much broader . |
| 4 | A representative from each travelled to London for a joint interview chaired by Jones , and subsequently published in Melody Maker . |
| 5 | Determined to write herself out of her poverty , Buchi Emecheta launched herself on the book world with an autobiographical account of life in London for a young Nigerian single parent . |
| 6 | Buchi Emecheta is best remembered for her first book , In the Ditch , an autobiographical account of life in 1960s London for a young Nigerian woman with five children . |
| 7 | Since then , several lucky Hairflair readers have been along to the Feature You studios in London for a fabulous make-over and photographic shoot — with some stunning results … |
| 8 | Anne Corr from Dungannon won the top prize and towards the end of April , Anne and one of her parents will fly to London for a hectic couple of days . |
| 9 | She was in London for a Royal Gala ballet performance to helps an AIDS trust . |
| 10 | It would not have warranted summoning all district society presidents to London for a brief meeting , but the value gained from these was particularly significant . |
| 11 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 12 | So Diana was deeply distressed when the Sunday Mirror newspaper ran a front page story claiming that , on November 5 , Diana drove from London for a secret meeting with Prince Charles aboard the royal train in a siding at Holt in Wiltshire . |
| 13 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
| 14 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |
| 15 | The McKays qualified and married in Edinburgh and then left to work in London for a short time before travel beckoned and they went to work firstly in Papua New Guinea and then in Lusaka , Zambia . |
| 16 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 17 | A chance to win the latest Dustin Hoffman video and a weekend in London for an unsung hero — or heroine — in your life . |
| 18 | He remembers a training session in Hyde Park when Boro were in London for an away match . |
| 19 | Once qualified , he joined the firm of Sir William G. Armstrong ( later Baron Armstrong of Cragside , q.v. ) in London as a hydraulic engineer . |
| 20 | The integrity of the City of London as a financial centre is a crucial element to its success and reputation . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see a serious challenge to London as a financial centre as things stand currently , ’ Hugh Smith intones calmly . |
| 22 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 23 | I think he wanted a move to London as a desperate attempt save his marriage . |
| 24 | In recent years prosecutions have been thin on the ground , but the problem still exists — and the authorities want to market London as a spotless international financial centre . |
| 25 | In 1834 he set up on his own in London as a general chemical manufacturer . |
| 26 | Though his first beginnings in London as a speculative builder had ended in bankruptcy , he removed to Wales and began afresh . |
| 27 | The general principles of the road patterns , earlier enunciated by Alker Tripp , and demonstrated in strategic form by Abercrombie for Greater London as a gigantic cartwheel of spokes and ring roads , with several rims , were accepted . |
| 28 | The evening , largely organized by Hopkins and David Mairowitz did something to further that perpetually lost It cause — London as a twenty-four hour city . |
| 29 | At the end of 1851 he left Fox & Henderson to practise on his own account in London as a consulting engineer . |
| 30 | Eliot 's vision of London as a potential savage battleground is confirmed by Spender 's memory of a lunchtime conversation in London during 1930 : ‘ … |