Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's are closing their Chester and Glasgow branches , and their Billingshurst rooms in Sussex are under a progressive closure threat . |
| 2 | A CAFE in Middlesbrough is on a collision course with the borough council over its opening hours . |
| 3 | Club football in Brazil is in a mess . |
| 4 | Just a few years ago he complained about the exact opposite — that the provisions for the community charge in Scotland were in a separate Bill from those for England and Wales . |
| 5 | The University Staff Art Exhibition in May was in a class of its own , reminding us all of the talent there is on campus . |
| 6 | Although he excavated extensively in Germany Kemble 's greatest contribution in England was as an historian of the period ( 1863 ; 1876 ) . |
| 7 | The most usual way for a musician to do business in Jamaica was through a producer , who would pay the musician a nominal sum for his work and then make his own deals with record companies : a system which traditionally guaranteed disproportionately generous returns for the producer , and next to nothing for the musician . |
| 8 | The courthouse in Kirkwall is in a particularly picturesque setting . |
| 9 | In general , the buildings in Funchal are of a modest simplicity which make a contrast with the luxuriance of the vegetation . |
| 10 | Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for two nights in Krakow is on a bed and breakfast basis . |
| 11 | Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for 3 nights in Budapest is on a bed and breakfast basis . |
| 12 | Make them do what we know is for their benefit as well as our own , and all difficulties in China are at an end . ’ |
| 13 | Interest in CHP is at a high level and the prospects for CHP in the 1990s are excellent . |
| 14 | But first this lunchtime , unions and management at the Jetstream factory in Prestwick are on a collision course over compulsory redundancies . |
| 15 | A TOWN in Peru is in an uproar over a legend that a Blackburn woman buried there is a vampire who has vowed to return to life tomorrow to seek revenge . |
| 16 | C. Each separate city and town in Britain is like a magnet attracting people and industries towards it . |
| 17 | That has been much nicer than paying the 5% or so charged on bank loans even when interest rates in Japan were at a record low . |
| 18 | The BDA 's involvement in Europe is from a historical point of view likely to be seen in years to come as the finest achievement of the last few years . |
| 19 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 20 | POLLUTION in Cairo is on a level with Los Angeles and even more crowded , dirty and chaotic than London . |
| 21 | Most of these in Italy are in a poor condition as in Rome , Ascoli , Pompeii , Ostia , etc. but the provinces have fared better . |
| 22 | It seemed clear that his new duties would keep him in London for some time — certainly his stay in Italy was at an end . |
| 23 | A US Congressional Research Service report cited in the Middle East Economic Digest of March 22 stated that current food stocks in Iraq were at a record low . |
| 24 | Our interest in Madonna is as a phenomenon and almost academic . |
| 25 | It had long been thought that many seventeenth and eighteenth century blocks in Rome were of a type of construction essentially Medieval or Renaissance , but Ostia shows that the basic plan of these is Roman . |
| 26 | The second development in family planning in India was of a very different kind and involved the attempt by the state during the Emergency of 1975/76 to step up the programme . |
| 27 | In addition , the role of the words in Wagner 's music drama would be open to damaging criticism on Schopenhauerian grounds , although this further problem only impinged fully on Nietzsche at a later date , when his interest in Wagner was of a different order altogether . |
| 28 | As for the noise , my flat in London is on a main road , and the noise never really stops . |
| 29 | The pro-English party must have realised , however , that neither they nor their masters in London were in a position to hold out for long . |
| 30 | ‘ We can only presume , ’ wrote Dr Foxley ‘ that this lesser or non-existent discount to be granted in Wales is as a result of the ‘ fiery nature of the controversy ’ over holiday homes in Wales in the past ’ . |