Example sentences of "in [noun] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point all three friends felt an unruly wave of amusement sweeping over them , and the rest of the fire-drill was spent desperately avoiding each other 's eyes in case a fit of the giggles should descend , and they were all agreed ( especially Mildred ) that this would definitely not be the thing to do . |
| 2 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 3 | In Moscow a spokesman for Mr Khasbulatov , Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , said the Russian leader had acted emotionally in walking out of Congress . |
| 4 | Gorbachev on Nov. 3 organized in Moscow a meeting between Moldavian President Mircha Snegur and Gagauz and Dnestr Russian community leaders . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough will be allowed to spend £20.2m , resulting in £14 a head off poll tax bills and a six per cent cut in services . |
| 6 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |
| 7 | It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued . |
| 8 | It is to point out that there is nowhere in existence a set of ‘ records ’ which could prove that Christ was either a lunatic or ‘ precisely what He said ’ He was . |
| 9 | In Germany a division into socialist , Liberal and Christian unions remained until the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933 . |
| 10 | Individually two Englishmen on the continent fared better ; both William Brade ( 1560–1630 ) from 1609 onward , and Thomas Simpson ( 1582–after 1625 ) from 1610 onward , published in Germany a number of sets of instrumental dances , nearly all their own . |
| 11 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 12 | Norman Dennis ( 1970 ) showed how in Sunderland a change in attitude led to a hardening resistance to slum clearance ; another study charted the conflict between a local community and a city planning department , Newcastle ( Davies , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | In Cardiff a team from the Department of Town Planning at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology under the direction of Professors Michael Batty and Neil Wrigley will work together with colleagues from the statistics group at the University of Bath and the South West Universities Computer Centre to develop demonstration projects for Wales and South West England . |
| 14 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 15 | If money is paid into the account in notes a charge of 1% ( minimum £6 ) is made . |
| 16 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 17 | Yet this was in part a reflection of the special conditions they faced . |
| 18 | As our study has also shown that most subjects who were seropositive in 1969 remained so over the next 21 years , it is probable that the high prevalence of H pylori antibodies seen in elderly subjects is at least in part a reflection of greater exposure to the infection in earlier years . |
| 19 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 20 | This was in part a response to an upsurge in militant opposition to food shortages and profiteering which was simultaneously driving many trade unionists into cooperation . |
| 21 | Statutes which prohibit the production of evidence abroad , commonly known as ‘ blocking statutes ’ , many of which have been adopted since the 1978 meeting … , are in part a response to what are perceived in some countries as exorbitant assertions of jurisdiction by the courts of other countries . |
| 22 | This development is in part a response to the rapidly growing demand for psychogeriatric services as a result of demographic trends , and in part to an acknowledgment that the multidisciplinary nature of these services needs to be fully reflected in the way they are managed and delivered . |
| 23 | The USSR became India 's main external source of weaponry and rendered extensive economic aid ; Soviet support was in part a response to the support that Pakistan received from the Chinese , with whom the Indians had an unresolved border dispute . |
| 24 | The open letter , in part a response to this development , galvanized that discussion . |
| 25 | The decree was in part a response to months of student protest against the court ruling , some of the strongest of which had occurred in November 1989 . |
| 26 | Suharto 's advancement of a pro-democratic line was in part a response to pressure from sections of the armed forces ( ABRI ) . |
| 27 | This was in part a response to the demand of Western governments and the UN for a complete restructuring of the entire CILSS system . |
| 28 | In part a response to the new international division of labour , a new international labouroriented labour studies is rapidly emerging ( see the bibliography by Waterman and Klatter in Boyd et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | A staple feature of Soviet bureaucracy is overlapping responsibility ( particularly at intermediate levels ) : in part a natural consequence of size and complexity , in part a way of ensuring consultation and coordination ; it is also the Party 's tried and trusted technique of divide and rule . |
| 30 | She recognized that this feeling was in part a hangover from her schooldays , when her occasional invitations to friends had invariably resulted in sessions of strained discomfort , presided over by the disapprobation , however concealed , of her mother ; she had no precedent for successful hospitality . |