Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [adj] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 2 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 3 | But in the political language of the right in the 1980s it is outside in the sense of being cast as alien , normally via the stigmata of race or socialism , the locus of criminal delinquency , the site of disorder . |
| 4 | At some point in the mid-660s he was forbidden by his father to go to Rome with Benedict Biscop , who was later to found the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow . |
| 5 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 6 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 7 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 8 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 9 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 10 | In one case you are a pupil in the second you are a friend . |
| 11 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 12 | What is more , in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round . |
| 13 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 14 | To comprehend some of the problems faced by British government in the 1980s it is necessary to know not only the structure and relationships of the political system but also the popular expectations and the burden of responsibilities borne by government . |
| 15 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 16 | Thus a detailed examination of Birmingham families in the early 1880s found that those earning 27/6d paid 6/ rent ( 23.7 per cent of their income ) , while in London in the 1900s it was not uncommon to pay 8/ out of 24/ ( 33 per cent ) for two rooms . |
| 17 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |