Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |
| 2 | By the 1890s the seats of sexual respectability were seen by reformers such as Grant Allen to rest in the lower middle class and the upper working class , but in the latter there was no simple acceptance of middle-class norms . |
| 3 | Dislike of American slavery had never vanished and was a favourite topic for novelists like Mrs Trollope to tackle in the 1830s . |
| 4 | I mean the policy that er I helped er Douglas Hurd to develop in the nineteen eighties was based on prevention , consultation and cooperation , and moderate use of imprisonment . |
| 5 | They also had former Everton player McDonald to thank in the 28th minute when he booted a Matthew Jackson header off the line . |
| 6 | They also had former Everton player McDonald to thank in the 28th minute when he booted a Matthew Jackson header off the line . |