Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later . |
| 2 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 3 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 4 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 5 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 6 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 7 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 8 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 9 | Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course . |
| 10 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 11 | He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 . |
| 12 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 13 | This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports . |
| 14 | They need , above all , to become familiar with the British role model for a school teacher in general and a language teacher in particular . |
| 15 | Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 . |
| 16 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 17 | Champion for a second time in 1983 , he teamed up with Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1986 and a year later was champion for the third time . |
| 18 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was followed by a Local Government Commissioner in 1969 and a Health Service Commissioner four years later . |
| 19 | He was educated at Winchester College ( 1915–20 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1920–3 ) , where he read mathematics , winning an entrance scholarship , becoming a senior scholar in 1921 and a wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1923 . |
| 20 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 21 | Born Sergei Izvekov at Bogorodsk near Moscow , he pursued his religious vocation in a hostile climate of militant state atheism , becoming a monk in 1927 and a priest in 1932 . |
| 22 | Ever determined , she helped to re-establish the branch in 1930 and a Tutorial Class in Psychology was launched successfully in 1931 . |
| 23 | Following the Joubert Study ( see pp. 125 ) a computerized budget system ( MAXIS ) was installed into the DOE in 1983 and a network of 120 cost centres established , each controlled by a manager with budgetary responsibility for running costs including staff ( Fry , 1984 , p. 332 ; Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 50–2 ) . |
| 24 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 25 | He rose further under the Commonwealth , becoming a commissioner for compounding and a JP in 1650 and a commissioner for indemnity in 1652 . |
| 26 | He obtained second classes in classical honour moderations ( 1898 ) , literae humaniores ( 1900 ) , and theology ( 1901 ) , and was awarded a Liddon exhibition in 1900 and a Denyer and Johnson scholarship in 1902 . |
| 27 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 28 | The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year . |
| 29 | Fears of religious extremism were also revived by calls to turn the 6th century cathedral of St Sophia , converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum since 1934 , into a mosque once more , and by attempts in April 1989 to introduce segregated bus services for women students in the city of Konya , 220 km south of Ankara , where fundamentalists controlled the local council . |
| 30 | Despite a few institutional innovations in 1961 and a number of others in 1969 , the WTO remains an administrative , training and ( only since 1969 ) a consultative organisation . |