Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Latin America is familiar territory for many in ELT although in the '80s it was sometimes neglected .
2 Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate .
3 We restricted Apoel to one good chance in the first half and in the second they created little from open play .
4 In the first picture he catches John Snow off Daniel 's bowling and in the second he celebrates as Murray catches Alan Ward off Holding .
5 In the first case we need a level ‘ above ’ physiology and in the second we need a level ‘ below ’ reasoning .
6 We have also presented two examples of how rational expectations introduce testable restrictions : in the first we examined the relationship between the spot and the forward exchange rates and in the second we examined the implications for the term structure of interest rates .
7 The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four .
8 There is a suggestion that in the 1770s he was briefly associated with James Keir [ q.v. ] at his chemical works in Stourbridge .
9 Hall 's devotion to America became a byword and in the 1880s he was called ‘ an American preacher ’ although one listener added , ‘ though allusions to things American are frequent in the sermons … he is heartily English in thought and speech ’ .
10 An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage .
11 The development of commercial airlines had an immense impact on travel and in the thirties they really began to take off .
12 In the first case counselling has failed to protect others and in the second it has failed to protect the person counselled .
13 In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals .
14 It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent .
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