Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in contemporary London and obviously written before the Somalian famine hit the news , the book is essentially the story of Rachel , an expatriate South African liberal with three children ; Hassan , a Somalian Brit working as a refugee adviser ; and Anab and Haleemo , two refugees from the Somalian civil war . |
| 2 | The griffin , an ancient oriental creature , known in Bronze-age Greece and now reintroduced , is essentially a lion-body with eagle 's wings and head , but the head is modified in various ways . |
| 3 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 4 | To overcome this waste , I sow several hundred extra brassicas in the greenhouse in March ( cabbage , red cabbage , brussels sprouts , cauliflower , and broccoli ) , bed them out at four-inch spacing in the vegetable garden in early May and then transplant them at two-foot intervals into the headlands after horse-hoeing in June . |
| 5 | Some schools , like Newcastle 's Northern Counties School , were evacuated in early September but soon returned to their proper premises . |
| 6 | They also killed off any hope of US-Soviet ‘ disengagement ’ in central Europe and instead provoked a nuclear build-up by America . |
| 7 | It was hoped to reassure the Warsaw Pact about European security , to develop a strong German role in central Europe and eventually to break down barriers with East Germany . |
| 8 | Swedish industry went through a period of instability , due partly to the loss of important export/import markets in eastern Europe and partly to labour difficulties . |
| 9 | Inspired by events in Eastern Europe and popularly known as the " stir " , the MRD sought the ending of the panchayat ( council ) system and the reintroduction of multiparty politics ( banned since 1960 ) . |
| 10 | Pakistan and Saudi Arabia both played important roles in secret negotiations , with Gen. Dostam visiting both countries in late November and reportedly holding talks with Prince Turki al-Faisal , head of Saudi intelligence . |
| 11 | UN-sponsored work to prevent further erosion of the dam was completed in late November and further measures to lessen pressure on the structure were being implemented . |
| 12 | Two members of the House of Representatives , Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both independent Islamists , were arrested in late August and subsequently charged , along with two other people , with plotting to overthrow the government and having links with foreign powers . |
| 13 | The mucosa was left for 15 minutes in preoxygenated HBSS and then rinsed in a series of Petri dishes containing 20 ml HBSS with 5 ml N-acetylcysteine ( 1 mg/ml ) ( Sigma Chemical Co Ltd ) to dissolve the mucus . |
| 14 | Thus a Briton can drive through the Betic Cordillera in southern Spain and instantly recognise the gypsiferous , red and green marls of the Keuper . |
| 15 | Since 1976 , the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has assumed responsibility for the monitoring programme in Western Europe and subsequently extended this to Eastern Europe . |