Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] in [adj] [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overuse can lead to pollution , declining groundwater levels and , eventually , to trouble of one sort or another ; internecine feuds were reported in southern Spain in the summer of 1983 when river levels were at an all-time low . |
| 2 | When killings were reported in late May in the region of Tchin-Tabaradene in Niger , the government recorded the incident as a Tuareg attack on a gendarmerie , in which 63 people died and 77 were arrested . |
| 3 | Record high temperatures were recorded in northern Australia in March . |
| 4 | His widow , Fatima Oufkir , 56 , his six children ( now aged between 21 and 37 ) and his cousin had been imprisoned in southern Morocco in December 1972 , and were moved to Marrakesh in 1987 . |
| 5 | The Jewish Bund ( the general Jewish Labour League of Lithuania , Poland and Russia ) was formed in western Russia in 1897 , and joined the RSDLP in 1898 . |
| 6 | Heavy fighting involving Kurdish pesh mergas ( guerrillas ) and government troops was reported in early September in parts of northern Iraq . |
| 7 | Settis , who was born in Southern Italy in 1941 , is by training a classical archaeologist , but his writings range beyond Antiquity and include a study on the meaning of Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ , articles on Aby Warburg , the founder of the great library now part of London University , and — very much in the Warburg tradition — an edition of papers on the classical tradition in Italian art , La memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana ( 1984–86 ) . |
| 8 | Indirect Rule with capital letters was born in Northern Nigeria in the first decade of the twentieth century , as a result of Sir Frederick Lugard 's compulsion to justify and elaborate in writing his decision to administer the newly conquered Fulani emirates by installing a British Resident at each of the emirate courts . |
| 9 | The changes in parking behaviour in St John 's Wood are similar to those observed in the period after wheelclamping was introduced in central London in 1982 . |
| 10 | The Tarot pack was invented in northern Italy in the fifteenth century and is widely used across the world today in ordinary card games . |
| 11 | The pattern was established in northern France in the early thirteenth century of a twin-towered façade with central rose window and a triple portico at base , spreading , like a Roman triumphal arch , across the full width of the elevation . |