Example sentences of "was in [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very end of his life there was also a suggestion that he was in receipt of bribes for the release of prisoners at Newgate , though this allegation seems not to have been proved . |
| 2 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 3 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 4 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |
| 5 | Det Sgt Hardy Jones of Darlington CID confirmed he was in contact with officers from other forces to discuss the raids . |
| 6 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 7 | Such a confident assertion of local feeling against nuclear power was in tune with shifts in the national political scene . |
| 8 | Namaliu claimed that the landing was in response to requests from local chiefs and village leaders , who feared for their safety following a spate of executions carried out by the BRA . |
| 9 | This was in response to requests from . |
| 10 | It was also agreed that conventional armed forces would come under a single armed forces command , though leaving an option for CIS member states to control their own armed forces — this was in response to demands from Moldova , Ukraine and Azerbaijan . |
| 11 | The aid was in addition to grants of US$553,400,000 announced earlier in the month . |
| 12 | The strike was in support of demands for better pay and conditions following unsuccessful negotiations with TCL . |
| 13 | Despite a 1991 that saw her largely relieved of the pressure of the tabloid press charting a private life that was in turmoil over allegations against her father Peter ( since disproved ) , the last twelve months have brought her only limited satisfaction . |
| 14 | On July 22 Baker met with President Mubarak of Egypt in Cairo and on July 23 he was in Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad , and in the Bekaa valley , Lebanon , for talks with Lebanese President Elias Hrawi . |
| 15 | The Acting Chairman of the Russian Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , was in dispute with supporters of acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar , chief architect of the drive to a market economy , over measures to deal with the massive outstanding debts of state enterprises . |
| 16 | A spokeswoman for Database said the company was in negotiations with EDS until IBM Italia , which holds 22.5% of the company , found out and put a stop to them . |
| 17 | His initial duties were to assist with fieldwork for the magnetic survey of India and by the 1908–9 field season he was in charge of operations in south-west India . |
| 18 | Beattie 's defence barrister , Anthony Cinnamond , called Chief Inspector Kyle who was in charge of investigations into the murders at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. and Inspector Jardine who was assisting him . |
| 19 | For two years Ramsey was in charge of repairs at the Tower , but was able to continue in private practice , agreeing on 23 May 1337 to advise on the works of Lichfield Cathedral . |
| 20 | But this in itself did not lead to Worcester being an obvious target for government to focus attention on , since such a reduction was in line with predictions for other hospitals . |
| 21 | By Aug. 31 a fragile ceasefire was in place in preparations for negotiations on Abkhazia 's status beginning on Sept. 3 . |
| 22 | The party leader , Pastor Richard Andriamanjato , said that the move was in protest at attempts by Arema to sabotage AKFM-Renewal . |