Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samaritans in Hereford have noticed a growing number of farmers ringing in for counselling : |
| 2 | Britain still leads the world in playground design and the Bouncing Ball company in Hereford has found a ready export market in Spain . |
| 3 | HOMELESSNESS in Middlesbrough has hit a record high . |
| 4 | THE MINORIES Gallery in Colchester has won a temporary reprieve and will re-open this spring . |
| 5 | As we shall see later , the ongoing health of children in Seascale has become a critical issue for the nuclear industry . |
| 6 | On Nov. 22 more than 150,000 people in Lomé had held a mass rally in support of the strike . |
| 7 | The appointment of technocrats to a number of economic posts was seen by observers as an indication that the government was falling into line with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , which in May had approved a three-year financing agreement for the country [ see below ] . |
| 8 | Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the Government 's attitude in Maastricht has left a crippling legacy of anger and resentment among our Community partners about the double opt-out , and that it has even led to a denunciation of the Prime Minister and the Government by their own right-wing allies in the European Community ? |
| 9 | The National Council of Churches in Korea has formed a special committee to work on the ‘ democratisation of the Korean media ’ . |
| 10 | Early check-ups in England had shown a normal pregnancy and she was looking forward to being able to indulge in her favourite French foods . |
| 11 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 12 | I have suggested in this article that an influential forum of scholars , critics and performers in England has felt a pervasive desire to direct a good deal of medieval and Renaissance music away from the ‘ medieval/Renaissance group ’ ( a tradition which has come to seem increasingly hollow , even bogus , to members of the forum ) and towards the best voices to emerge from the chapels attached to the Oxbridge colleges where , almost without exception , the members of the forum received their higher education . |
| 13 | Freemasonry in England has negotiated a remarkable U-turn in the last three years due to the criticisms of church , state , its own embarrassed members , the police , the Press and the general public . |
| 14 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 15 | A research organisation in Chile has completed a unique study into young people 's expectations of television , showing a demand for more educational programmes and more serious discussion of issues and problems affecting the daily lives of young people . |
| 16 | A thunderstorm in Cambridge had struck a public house , demolishing the upper portion of the chimney , splitting the rest down and finally striking the landlady and knocking out all her front teeth . |
| 17 | UN Development Programme official Antonius Broek said the UN 's Department of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva had misread a Chinese document , which actually reported only 257 people killed . |
| 18 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 19 | What is not known is information on the locations of former sites , at which quite toxic materials may have been dumped , though recent work by Egger ( 1989 ) in Austria has mapped a vast number of such sites . |
| 20 | The parents and boyfriend of a model stabbed to death in Paris have told a French court they do n't believe the account of her killing . |
| 21 | He and colleagues in Israel have discovered a naturally- occurring compound within the body which mimics the effects of cannabis on the brain . |
| 22 | Now Lucy Netzer and Jacob Sagiv , from the Weizmann Institute of Science , Rehovot in Israel have developed a simpler and quicker technique for preparing monolayer films that relies simply on the chemical properties of the starting materials . |
| 23 | Pupils at Grange Primary School in Hartlepool have collected a huge amount of toothbrushes and toothpaste for an orphanage in Romania . |
| 24 | His last two months in Kiev have made a welcome change from his tour of duty in Sri Lanka , which expelled him last year , accusing him of interfering in elections . |
| 25 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 26 | Police in Lyon have broken a large scale forgery ring which produced oil paintings and drawings attributed to modern masters including Utrillo , Chagall , Dérain and Dufy valued at ‘ several million francs ’ according to an early official statement . |
| 27 | Police in Egypt have arrested a seventeen year old man over the killing by Islamic fundamentalists of a Gloucestershire nurse . |
| 28 | The state of Labour politics in Derry was described by a veteran , John Sharkey , writing to a friend in Dublin on 1 October 1962 : ‘ Labour in Derry has become a dirty joke . |
| 29 | The Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) , which in August had sent a regional peace-keeping force known as ECOMOG , in November sponsored the formation of an interim government headed by Sawyer , a former opposition leader . |
| 30 | The protest was organized by the Assembly of Popular Organizations together with trade unions in continued opposition to government-imposed price rises which in August had provoked a 48-hour general strike violently suppressed by the Army [ see p. 37649 ] . |