Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in [adj] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courses have also been arranged in Eastern Europe with the help of the Know How Fund . |
| 2 | Depos had been formed in late May by two opposition parliamentary parties — the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) and the Democratic Party ( DS ) — and the Serbian Liberal Party and the New Democracy-Movement for Serbia . |
| 3 | Reports of fighting in the strategic southern town of Malakal , the capital of Upper Nile province , which had been reported in late October as clashes between the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) and government forces [ see p. 39132 ] , were confused by conflicting accounts during November . |
| 4 | The Economist of Oct. 6 reported that demonstrations had been organized in southern Bhutan between Sept. 19 and 23 by the outlawed Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , most of whose supporters were members of the ethnic Nepalese community . |
| 5 | The so-called " Baker plan " had been accepted in early November by the Israeli Cabinet , on condition that the USA guaranteed the non-involvement of the PLO [ see p. 37051 ] . |
| 6 | A striking example of rural population mixing has been produced in northern Scotland by the North Sea oil industry . |
| 7 | Empirical Socialism may be supposed to have judged that that point had been reached in western Europe by the 1960s . |
| 8 | Government-to-government contacts had been restarted in early December with the convening in Beijing of consultations on cultural exchanges . |
| 9 | The Independent of Feb. 7 reported that more than 26,000 people had been arrested in Tamil Nadu during a Feb. 6 general strike in protest against president 's rule . |
| 10 | Peter Walker , the Secretary of State for Wales , confirmed on March 4 that he intended to leave the government at a future point in order to be able to spend more time with his family ; it was subsequently announced on March 14 that he would be succeeded in late May by David Hunt , currently Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities , who would enter the Cabinet for the first time . |
| 11 | As it can only be grown in Northern India among the foothills of the Himalayas , it is naturally always in great demand and once you savour the fragrance and taste of the rice for yourself you will understand why . |
| 12 | The letter continues : ’ and details will be announced in late January of changes to be made effective from 15 March 1992 . ’ |
| 13 | Wörner 's statement failed , however , to prevent a public controversy following a statement in mid-February by the West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , who hinted that West German troops might be stationed in eastern Germany after unification . |
| 14 | The meeting had been jeopardized in early September by Prince Sihanouk 's refusal to travel to Jakarta . |
| 15 | But we must not forget the great flysch troughs which were developed in Alpine Europe through much of Cretaceous time and which in many cases continued on into the Tertiary . |
| 16 | Seven Arizona state legislators , four lobbyists and seven others were indicted in early February on charges which included bribery , money laundering and campaign-law violations . |
| 17 | Two senior investigators into Stasi connections were dismissed in early March after publicly criticizing the government 's exoneration of De Maizière . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | International protests were lodged in early August over the deployment of Turkish troops on Iraqi soil , as they engaged from Aug. 5-19 in cross-border activities against alleged militia camps belonging to the banned Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 21 | For there are pictures at Yad Vashem of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem being greeted in Nazi Germany by Heinrich Himmler . |
| 22 | ( And some of those romances were set in medieval Aquitaine of the troubadours — which certainly constitutes one common interest that drew Pound and Hewlett together . ) |
| 23 | According to a report by the human rights organization Amnesty International , some 30 parliamentarians and other high-ranking officials were arrested in early December for advocating the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 24 | Record high temperatures were recorded in northern Australia in March . |
| 25 | Official results were released in late November for the state and local elections held on Nov. 11 in México state , the country 's most populous region . |
| 26 | The situation was especially serious in the Harer and Ogaden areas , where UN relief operations were suspended in late May until June 15 ; on June 21 the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced from Geneva that it had begun a food airlift to 80,000 people stranded near Gode in the southern Ogaden . |
| 27 | A Festival information point is situated in central Brighton at 111 Church Street , open daily during Festival , 10am–5pm . |
| 28 | The instincts of the entrepreneur have been suppressed in Eastern Europe for 44 years , and in the Soviet Union for 72 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | , Sir John ( ante 1486–1559 ) , soldier and MP , was the eldest son of John Markham of Cotham , Nottinghamshire , whose ancestors had been established in Great Markham since the twelfth century , and his wife Alice , daughter of Sir William Skipwith . |