Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 2 | Probably the most interesting of these provincial archways is the Porta Nigra at Trier in Germany built in A.D. 275 . |
| 3 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 4 | On April 21-22 this group , which appeared dominated by hardline conservatives , had organized ( without approval by the CPSU central committee ) an " initiative congress " in Leningrad attended by around 800 delegates from throughout Russia to promote the idea of the new party . |
| 5 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 6 | Unemployment in Scotland rose by nearly 9,000 to 260,757 , but still remains marginally below the UK average . |
| 7 | OUTPUT in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 increased by 2 per cent over the previous year 's , but the industry 's share of employment in Scotland remained at about 13 per cent . |
| 8 | Instability in Mali sent at least 15,000 Tuareg refugees fleeing into the southern Algerian departments of Tamanrasset , Adrar and Illizi . |
| 9 | The numbers of special schools in operation in England rose from around 400 in 1970 to 1,050 in 1980 . |
| 10 | The mass of the people were not recorded because the evidence is limited to the loan book , which of course excludes everyone with less than £5 , a class which in Coventry amounted to as much as 80 per cent of the total , though in other provincial towns the proportion was not as high , that of sub-£2 assessments being lower than in the countryside . |
| 11 | A uniprocessor with 1Gb disk should begin shipping in the US in November priced at around $25,000 . |
| 12 | Dr John Prescott of the CSIRO , Australia 's national research organisation , and colleagues at the Sensory Research Centre in Sydney looked at how different amounts of capsaicin affected the flavour and intensity of solutions of sugar and salt . |
| 13 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 14 | The court granted the order , holding that as a result of the retraction by P. of his statement , and his being an alleged accomplice , there was insufficient evidence against the applicant for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to the Extradition Act 1989 In the circumstances the court did not find it necessary to deal with arguments that no evidence had been adduced that the applicant had , at the time of the offences , been ‘ within the territory of the requesting party ’ as required by article 1 of the Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Sweden contained in Schedule 1 to the Sweden ( Extradition ) Order 1966 and that the magistrate had failed to consider whether the Swedish court had power to try the applicant for participation in offences in Sweden committed from outside its territory . |
| 15 | Its share in Liverpool rose by more than 14% compared with 1986 , but hardly changed if comparison is made with 1988 . |
| 16 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
| 17 | The American embassy in Lilongwe reacted at once , saying that it viewed his arrest ‘ in the most serious way ’ and urged his immediate release . |
| 18 | Para-military police reinforcements were drafted into Calcutta after the explosion , just four days after a series of bombs in Bombay killed at least 250 people . |
| 19 | But the denouement of the Soviet military presence in Egypt proved at least that the concession of military facilities to the USSR was unlikely in itself to induce a dependent alignment on that power . |
| 20 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 21 | This is a survey of attitudes towards civil and political rights in Britain based upon over 2000 interviews with the general public and over 1000 interviews with a political and governing elite , namely , party group leaders on local government councils throughout Britain . |
| 22 | [ F ] rom the early 1960s the bulldozers began to bite into the inner cities : slum clearance in Britain rose from less than 35,000 houses a year in 1955 to a steady 70,000 a year from 1960 . |
| 23 | ‘ Practically all fibre production in Europe fell into very significant loss about 1980 and ICI business was no exception ; we went into heavy and traumatic loss , ’ said Coleman who was then part of the Fibres production management team . |
| 24 | Sean and Mandy would like to buy , but most houses in Enstone cost at least £80,000 , well outside their price range . |
| 25 | From 1982 to 1989 the debts of non-financial firms in America rose by nearly 12% a year , way ahead of the 8.3% average annual growth for the previous three decades . |
| 26 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 27 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 28 | The High Court in Dublin adjourned until today an application by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child for a permanent ban on Irish student union leaders distributing information on abortion facilities in Britain and a related contempt hearing . |