Example sentences of "in [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 2 | His first major acts to subdue the Romans followed in the tradition of the agreements made between Clement II and the senate in 1188 and Celestine III and the senate in 1191 . |
| 3 | I also want to address two more complex issues in textual and sexual theory : firstly , the political implications of poststructuralist attempts to discredit notions of authorial agency ; and secondly , the related debates in gay theory around what have come to be known as the poles of ‘ essentialism ’ and ‘ social constructionism ’ ( terms I will elaborate on later ) . |
| 4 | Criticism of it was by no means new : a generation earlier , in the second decade of the century , there had been various anti-enclosure measures , an Act in 1515 to prevent the conversion of land from tillage to pasture , and the establishment of commissions of enquiry by Wolsey in 1517 and 1518 to investigate the extent of enclosures . |
| 5 | Further steps forward were taken in 1875 and 1879 when the ‘ Cross Acts ’ were passed . |
| 6 | In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors . |
| 7 | The Anderton Lift , constructed in 1875 and reconstructed in 1908 , on the Weaver Canal was , indeed , most spectacular — and still is — but not one whit more ingenious than the lift at Foxton . |
| 8 | Only one 18-hole course existed in Oxfordshire — at Southfield , Oxford — opened in 1875 and the oldest in the Berks , Bucks & Oxon area , which in total had 10 courses in 1907 . |
| 9 | It was built in 1875 and consists of two wrought-iron tanks or caissons in which boats are raised and lowered by a system of counterbalance , electricity replacing the original steam-powered hydraulic pumps . |
| 10 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 11 | The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date . |
| 12 | Organised by Janet Barnes , Keeper of the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield , the show draws on the collection of the Gallery which Ruskin founded in 1875 and called the St George 's Museum . |
| 13 | Although there was another substantial missionary exodus in 1875 and some radicals settled semi-permanently in the villages , the euphoria evaporated . |
| 14 | Sir Charles Robinson bought the estate in 1875 and developed it , naming the new roads as Cluny , St Vast , Stafford , Exeter and Taunton . |
| 15 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 16 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 17 | He was elected FRS in 1875 and was much involved in the affairs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( president 1913–15 ) and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ( president 1904–10 ) . |
| 18 | Electrically activated signals worked by small switches and interlocked with the points they controlled were first introduced by Sykes at Penge in 1875 and were the forerunner of large electro-mechanical signalling systems in which electrically actuated signals controlled by small slides were introduced , with lever-controlled points actuated by rodding . |
| 19 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 20 | The Egyptians , who had succeeded the enfeebled Turkish presence in the Red Sea , invaded his country and in 1875 and 1876 were decisively defeated . |
| 21 | In tall and muscular subjects , fasting and residual gall bladder volumes are also increased but , as far as known , without increased risk of gall stone formation . |
| 22 | The spanning of the United States in 1869 and of Canada in 1885 led to similar grand designs being formulated for Australia . |
| 23 | This church was , however , disunited in 1869 and the Irish Church disestablished in 1871 . |
| 24 | A member of the sanitary committee of the Paddington Vestry , he was influential in forming a local section of the Charity Organization Society in 1869 and was medical representative on a number of philanthropic bodies . |
| 25 | The Cutty Sark was launched in 1869 and was built for speed so that she could compete with other clipper ships in the China tea trade . |
| 26 | He was an acknowledged expert in the system of ‘ payment by results ’ which was introduced into Irish national schools in 1872 , and as such was appointed by the British government to report on the education system of Trinidad in 1869 and that of Malta in 1878 . |
| 27 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 28 | The great success among new journals of the period was Nature , beginning in 1869 and , like Chemical News , coming out in newspaper format each week . |
| 29 | Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 . |
| 30 | It is likely that these works were influenced by Haydn 's quartets op.17 and op.20 , composed in 1771 and 1772 . |