Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 2 | Occupations can feature predominantly , even where the victim is not in the person 's charge ( e.g. SEX OFFENCES OF FORMER M15 MAN ; TOWN CRIER 'S SEX ATTACK ON GIRL , 9 ; MARINE IN BED WITH TOT , 3 ; MARKET MANAGER IN INDECENCY CASE ) . |
| 3 | A LEADING environmental scientist — who has contributed to several television documentaries on green issues — today called on the Department of Marine in Dublin to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of swans at Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal . |
| 4 | , Gwendolen Mary ( 1876–1939 ) , artist , was born 22 June 1876 in Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire , Wales , the elder daughter and the second of four children of Edwin William John , solicitor , and his wife Augusta Smith , who came from a Brighton family . |
| 5 | , Edwin William ( 1876–1957 ) , missionary and anthropologist , was born 7 September 1876 in Aliwal North , Cape Colony , where his father , the Revd John Smith ( later president of the Primitive Methodist Church ) was serving as a missionary . |
| 6 | Deacon accumulated a fortune of over £100,000 , but his health was weakened by overwork and he died of typhoid 23 July 1876 in Widnes . |
| 7 | , ( Emily ) Margaret ( 1876–1951 ) , authority on English furniture and decoration , was born 15 August 1876 in Derwent , Derbyshire , the eighth in the family of five sons and five daughters of the Revd Francis Jourdain , vicar of Derwent Woodlands , Derbyshire , and his wife Emily , daughter of Charles Clay [ q.v. ] , |
| 8 | , Edith Mary ( 1876–1965 ) , midwife and international relief organizer , was born 20 October 1876 in London , the eldest daughter in the family of three daughters and four sons of William Arthur Pye , JP , wine merchant , and his wife Margaret Thompson , daughter of James Burns Kidston , writer to the signet , of Glasgow ; she was the sister of Sir David Randall Pye , FRS [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | , Harold John Wilde ( 1876–1919 ) , painter , was born 11 February 1876 in Road , Somerset , the second son of the Revd John Gilman , rector of Snargate with Snave , Romney Marsh , Kent , and his wife Emily Purcell Gulliver , daughter of a naval captain . |
| 10 | , Ernest Henry ( 1876–1930 ) , plant collector , was born 15 February 1876 in Chipping Campden , Gloucestershire , the eldest son of Henry Wilson , gardener , and his wife Annie Curtis . |
| 11 | Opposite : 304 in Abingdon Street on its night-time Marton route test . |
| 12 | , Alfred John ( 1895–1982 ) , calligrapher , was born 12 July 1895 in Grimsby , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of Alfred John Fairbank , engine fitter , and his wife Emma Greetham , a Salvation Army officer . |
| 13 | , Archibald Gordon ( 1895–1941 ) , author and journalist , was born 3 November 1895 in Poona , India , the younger son in a family of two sons and one daughter of William Robert Macdonell , LLD , East India merchant and chairman of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce , later a distinguished figure in Scotland , and his wife Alice Elizabeth , daughter of John Forbes White , classical scholar and patron of the arts . |
| 14 | FIG. 3 DP-1 in pRb and p107-DRTF1/E2F complexes . |
| 15 | Therefore , the narrow issue in this case is whether , as Mr. Page contends and the courts below have held , certiorari lies against the visitor to quash his decision as being erroneous in point of law notwithstanding that the question of law arises under the domestic law of the university which the visitor has ‘ exclusive ’ jurisdiction to decide . |
| 16 | Accordingly , the statement in the judgment of the Court of Appeal , at p. 377d , to the effect that , if the apparent consent of the owner is brought about by dishonesty , there is nothing in the words of section 1(1) to make such apparent consent relevant as providing a defence is , with respect , erroneous in relation to a charge of theft ( which was the relevant charge ) if the words ‘ appropriates ’ bears the meaning which the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( rightly , in my opinion ) has deliberately given it . |
| 17 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 18 | Hilton embodies his understanding of this journey in images of light and darkness based on an anagogical reading of two texts from Isaiah 26:9 : " mi soule desired in " and 9:2 : Habitantibus in regione umbrae mortis , lux orta est eis which he translates " to the wonend in contre of shadwe of dede , was spronge " [ wonend : dwellers ] ( 25.92r. – 238 ) . |
| 19 | By mid-July between 1,500 and 2,000 alleged criminals had been arrested in the army operation in rural Sind , and a further 1,600 in Karachi . |
| 20 | The bodies are flatter , more distorted and more angular , and the heads more truly primitive in appearance . |
| 21 | Because he draws his criteria from a particular musical tradition — a ‘ music of thought ’ , characterized by the working out of themes over extended , integrated forms and requiring concentrated , ‘ intellectual ’ listening — he regards other forms of music as either primitive in comparison or as corruptions of this tradition . |
| 22 | Now , ever since the emigrations and plantations of past ages , Ulster has been Scottish in character . |
| 23 | It is French in inspiration , the essence of High Gothic yet still characteristically German , lacking the elegance of French prototypes ( 505 ) . |
| 24 | He taught himself French in order to read Karl Marx 's Capital and later learned German . |
| 25 | Inside the public rooms were graceful and inimitably French in style , whilst the guest rooms were comfortable and modern . |
| 26 | French composers , notably Le Jeune , preferred in the 1590s to describe their chansons as ‘ airs ’ and the lute ayre was as definitely French in origin as the madrigal was Italian — and as completely anglicized by the different language . |
| 27 | The sculpture on the portals and the interior is magnificent , very French in treatment but German in expression ; the wise and foolish virgins , for example . |
| 28 | Technically it has an advantage over percutaneous cholecystolithotomy in that it requires a tract only 12 French in diameter as opposed to 30 French . |
| 29 | The complementary element to this in Karajan 's conducting has been the unusually wide distinction he made between the technique required for rehearsing and the qualities needed by a conductor in an actual performance , something he spells out in our conversations . |
| 30 | It is useful to confirm this in order to counter the popular idea that discrimination against older people arises entirely from the nature of old age . |