Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 2 | Two doubles in less than an hour . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits tumbled to £44.8m from £70m in 1991 as the group had to pay exceptional redundancy and related costs of £9.2m . |
| 4 | There might be a better chance of securing assistance for members like Earl Haig in 1994 if the economy showed stronger signs of recovery . |
| 5 | You 're supposed to be at work in less than an hour . |
| 6 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
| 7 | If they hit it , it would rip the bottom out of Golden Girl in less than a second . |
| 8 | MAOIST ‘ Shining Path ’ guerrillas attacked a hamlet in the central Peruvian jungle , killing eight people and wounding seven in the second raid in the zone in less than a month , Panamericana Television said . |
| 9 | For all its political militancy , the ILP was no less fearful of revolutionaries put their faith in industrial action : ‘ A general strike in the big key industries of Europe will put an end to the war in less than a week ’ , declared Solidarity , a shop steward paper , early in February . |
| 10 | But there was one place in particular where the smoke column could often be seen . |
| 11 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |
| 12 | Venice , Paris , Prague in 1758 provided the backdrop for ’ Casanova 's ’ personal journey into the political and sexual customs of society ’ whose ’ glittering external beauty , held all the charm of the Venus Fly-Trap . |
| 13 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 14 | Inorganic chemistry in particular provided the bulk of new pigments based on chromium , cadmium , cobalt , zinc , copper and arsenic . |
| 15 | In the 1960s and '70s it was seen as whisking people from a London roof-top to one in Paris in less than an hour . |
| 16 | But the scholars agree that reliable sources are missing for the period from his arrival in Paris in 1906 until the war , and that what there is is superficial and contradictory . |
| 17 | It was accompanied by a street exhibition on the political history of Czechoslovakia from its foundation in 1918 until the present , again using of lot of materials not seen before . |
| 18 | Sole , however , was critical of the extensive travelling which the itinerary imposed on the Scots , with a four-hour flight between the first and second venues , Darwin and Brisbane , and then the same time on to Hobart … from one extreme to the other in less than a week . |
| 19 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 20 | In the second Cabinet reshuffle in less than a month , Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on Jan. 12 named Elemer Gergatz as Agriculture Minister in place of Ferenc Jozsef Nagy , who became a Minister without portfolio , and Gyula Kiss ( hitherto a Minister without portfolio ) as Minister of Labour Affairs in place of Sandor Györivanyi . |
| 21 | Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads . |
| 22 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 23 | After this , Burke went on to win 3 out of 4 fights in less than a year , and in 1828 was matched with William Fitzmaurice at Harpenden which went 106 rounds and lasted 3 hours . |
| 24 | These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make . |
| 25 | Do n't pay a large deposit , and be wary of making payment in full before the work is completed ( many retailers will let you hold back up to 10% of costs until you are satisfied with the work ) . |
| 26 | Research has shown that the mechanisms in the human brain go through the anger response in less than a second . |
| 27 | Over coffee in the study Miss Danziger thanked the guests individually for their concern , apologised for interrupting their enjoyment of an excellent meal , and explained that so long as she came out of the spasm in less than a minute and a half it was not dangerous and left no ill-effects . |
| 28 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 29 | It is unusual for a major organisation to change its chief executive four times in less than a decade and the fact that they chose Roche each time — in a highly competitive market — is an impressive record in the headhunting world . |
| 30 | BAD : The only serious wobble of the campaign followed the appearance of Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman , on BBC television 's Election Call programme when he appeared to contradict or amend party policy no fewer than four times in less than an hour . |