Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 2 | Its status was even higher when it was carried to West Africa by Portuguese traders in 1522 and subsequently by Dutch and French ships . |
| 3 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 4 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 5 | When , as a result of the Independent Labour Party 's adoption of a ‘ living wage ’ policy , a joint committee of the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress examined the question in 1928 and again in 1929 , two reports were issued . |
| 6 | But inflation is expected to be 0.4 percentage points higher in both years , while interest rates might rise by half a point in 1991 and perhaps by 30 basis points in 1992 . |
| 7 | A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician . |
| 8 | Although Russia scored major victories against Austria-Hungary in 1914 and again in 1916 , she could not hold her own against Germany . |
| 9 | By the beginning of this century Ayrshires were being exported in large numbers to Finland , Sweden and Canada in particular and also to the USA , Australia , New Zealand and Japan . |
| 10 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 11 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 12 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 13 | It then rested when finances ran out before resuming in 1790 and reaching its intended link with the Aire and Calder and Don navigations in 1816 and thence to the Humber estuary . |
| 14 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 15 | The other object of special note is the so-called Blaze Star , T Coronæ , which is usually of about magnitude 10 , but which flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 16 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 17 | There he found considerable changes since his earlier visits , with Yates in 1778 and again in 1792 and 1794 . |
| 18 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 19 | He became a director of the East India Company in 1669 and its governor in 1672–4 and again in 1683 . |
| 20 | It then lay dormant until it was passed by Ohio in 1873 and then by Wyoming in 1978 . |
| 21 | This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence . |
| 22 | This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford . |
| 23 | Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them . |
| 24 | Godoy 's modification of these procedures in 1793 and again in 1797 and the renewal of the alliance with intellectuals like Jovellanos and Meléndez Valdés was a temporary affair . |
| 25 | It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements . |
| 26 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 27 | But there is some evidence of his association with liberals at Cambridge which must be mentioned briefly at this point , since it seems rather unlikely that he would have visited France in 1790 and again in 1791–2 if he had no sympathy with what was going on there . |
| 28 | The manuscript was published in imperfect form in 1888 and fully in 1947 . |
| 29 | Conversely , in South Tyneside , they had candidates in 13 wards in 1986 but only in nine this time . |
| 30 | Having declined Penn 's offer of a lesser post as receiver-general of all proprietarial revenues in the colony , Blackwell returned to Massachusetts in 1690 and then to England in 1693 or 1694 . |