Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 2 | On Feb. 21 Zhelev visited the grave at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset of Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer who had been assassinated in London in 1978 by the Bulgarian secret police by means a poisoned umbrella tip [ see p. 32997 ] . |
| 3 | The news of the Young Pretender 's invasion of England had initially been received in London with complacency , which gave way to concern and then serious alarm . |
| 4 | ‘ In the past this has mainly been done from London with nothing more than token force based either in Edinburgh or Glasgow . |
| 5 | New St Pancras , built nearby ( 1819–22 ) is a fine Greek Revival building , the most expensive church to have been built in London since St Paul 's . |
| 6 | Then , fortunately , the middle of the seventies , we were able to link up with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , and now , in fact , most of our concerts are done in London with the Royal Phil . |
| 7 | The service has been relocated from London to Mafier House in Worcester Street . |
| 8 | But he specified later that the Five-Power Defence Arrangements , involving Malaysia , Singapore , the United Kingdom , Australia and New Zealand , which had been formalised in London in April 1970 were ‘ in no way incompatible with our neutralisation proposal or our non-aligned policy ’ since the Arrangements were intended for current defence needs and were entirely defensive in nature , whereas the neutralisation was a ‘ long-term solution ’ . |
| 9 | In the case of the 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee there is no need to resort to such artificial comparisons , because the eruption does in fact form the basis of an opera , known as The Violins of St Jacques , which has been performed in London within the last few years . |
| 10 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 11 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 12 | This comes only when , after a lowering of tension , the boys are summoned from London to the newly constituted Samavia and Marco , expecting to see his father as a loyal subject near the throne , is rewarded to the full for his devoted service , as he realises it is his father who is the restored King . |
| 13 | Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks . |
| 14 | Now , thanks to his intervention , the bodies of the two English tourists were being brought back to Bucharest and would be flown to London by Tarom the following Tuesday — in coffins of Romanian oak . |
| 15 | French auctioneers say the contrast between British and French rates of VAT ( 5.5% sales tax on original works , books and certain signed pieces of furniture and 18.6% on the rest ) will cause art works to be drained towards London to the detriment of the Paris art market . |
| 16 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 17 | TROOPS will be used in London from 2pm today to take ambulance emergency calls in what the unions regarded last night as a ‘ political ’ attempt to escalate the dispute . |
| 18 | But I decided to give my countryman a chance , not that I 'd moved four thousand miles to be shown around London by a fellow American , and a hick from the provinces to boot . |
| 19 | The first major survey of French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be shown in London for many years will open at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery on 24 March ( to 11 July ) . |
| 20 | Next year 's exhibition schedule at The Royal Academy includes a survey of eighteenth-century Venetian art which will be shown in London from September to December before moving to the National Gallery of Art , Washington , from January to April 1995 . |
| 21 | Six finalists will be chosen from the pictures by representatives from Hairflair and Supersoft and all six will be invited to London for the final judging . |
| 22 | New buses which emit no more pollution that an average car fitted with a catalytic converter are to be introduced to London by the capital 's transport authority . |
| 23 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |
| 24 | The winner of the special award will be announced in London on June 8 . |
| 25 | Lord George did not long remain in command of such a small vessel , however , and no sooner did he attain a more substantial command than the Duke of Montrose sent orders for the sons of the lairds of Auchenbowie and Balfunning to be sent to London with a view to joining Lord George . |
| 26 | A new school for aspiring architects will be launched in London in October 1992 on the initiative of the Prince of Wales . |
| 27 | This SCI industrial health and safety group discussion forum will be held in London on 29 January 1992 . |
| 28 | This major microscopy conference and exhibition , organised by the Royal Microscopical Society , will be held in London on 7–10 July 1992 . |
| 29 | Effects of harmonising standards in Europe The conference on standards for pressure vessels will be held in London on 25 February 1992 . |
| 30 | A conference on The solid waste problem — issues in disposal , recycling and environmental monitoring will be held in London on 18–19 March 1992 . |