Example sentences of "of [noun] in [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 from the wilds of whitewater we 're off to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the start of our action round up … there we 're meeting up with greyhound trainer Tony Meek … and his two dogs …
2 The state of play in Aotearoa at the moment is : so now everyone knows about the inequities in paradise , what are we going to do about it ?
3 This is essentially the conclusion drawn by Salmon ( 1987 ) in his survey of decentralization in France in the early 1980s .
4 In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word .
5 A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) .
6 And so , like so many other politicians of merit , Amini was excluded form any positions of responsibility in Iran from the early sixties onwards .
7 " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . "
8 But that was the only s And then of course in Sanday in the what we call the North End ,
9 The progress of restorations in Venice since the 1966 flood
10 It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this .
11 There would seem to have been a shortage of silver in Northumbria from the 790s on , certainly for minting purposes .
12 A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 .
13 Given the existing climate of optimism in Britain in the mid-1960s the challenges foreseen were those of growth .
14 Rome : TWO gunmen on a motor scooter yesterday shot dead a former Iranian ambassador and head of opposition in Italy to the Tehran government .
15 As long ago as 1940 , Mannheim produced a report on the social aspects of crime in England in the inter-war years .
16 The latest row , over which should own the Crimea-based Black Sea fleet , has revealed both the strength of irredentist feeling in Moscow and the depth of animosity in Kiev towards the northern neighbour .
17 But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign .
18 Further talks were held in New Delhi on Oct. 5 , when all parties noted with approval of the lessening of violence in Bodoland since the beginning of September and the ABSU agreed to stop the violence to create an atmosphere for a political solution to the problem .
19 The resurgence since late February of violence in Uzbekistan against the Meskhetian minority [ see p. 37257 ] produced its first reported fatalities on March 3 when at least three people were killed in clashes between Uzbek demonstrators and security forces in Parkent , near the Uzbek capital of Tashkent .
20 Nothing is quite so telling about the peripheral position of foreigners in Japan as the sorry fate of these Westerners .
21 The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer .
22 These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century .
23 A third source , the Chronicle of 452 , gives a date of 415 , which is plainly wrong , although the error may result from confusion of Athaulf 's period of rule in Narbonne with the later settlement .
24 The substantial amount of research in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s generated a number of developments and debates .
25 But if the French are reluctant investors in Scotland , there are plenty of opportunities in France for the thrusting Scot , as Graham Romaine , British commercial vice-consul in Lyons points out .
26 The Third Book of Maccabees ( 3.10 ) has a reference to Greeks who were business partners of Jews in Alexandria about the end of the third century .
27 The obvious example from recent times is the treatment of Jews in Germany in the 1930s .
28 Much of this form of headhunting impetus obviously came from the USA after the opening of branches in London by the Big four .
29 The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London .
30 Here , on one of these thrones , the emperors of Abyssinia were crowned , until the coronation of Menelik in Shoa at the end of the nineteenth century .
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