Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumbrian-born David works in the nuclear materials accounts and safeguards office at Sellafield . |
| 2 | Another Anglo-Irishman working in the same tradition was Joseph Le Fanu ( 1814–73 ) , whose father , the Dean of Emly , lived and died in fear of premature burial . |
| 3 | I hope this Margaret goes in the same way as the other Tory Margaret . |
| 4 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 5 | The account of the Roman conquest of Britain by the Roman writer Tacitus , is certainly more " primary " than Collingwood 's Roman Britain written in the twentieth century , yet Tacitus was describing events in which he himself had not participated , though his father-in-law , and one of his key " sources " , was the General , Agricola , who had played a leading role in the campaigns . |
| 6 | The Yugoslav won 7–5 , 6–3 , 6–1 as the 36-year-old Navratilova faded in the last two sets of the unique five-set final after a bright start . |
| 7 | designed to attract a maximum profit without really thinking it through so in this way I do quite a strong Martin said in the previous two speeches . |
| 8 | He said that the existing system of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) had proved ineffectual , with over 500 SSSIs destroyed in the past two years , and that the legal protection to be given to SACs was still unclear . |
| 9 | Some time around the Imperial year 2400 Grom engaged in the infamous eating contest described above . |
| 10 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 11 | There are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world . |
| 12 | Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction . |
| 13 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 14 | OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books . |
| 15 | During World War I McLachlan served in the Special Brigade involved in gas warfare , for which he was awarded a DCM . |
| 16 | He estimates he can handle ten US concerns in the next five years and is particularly interested in partnering with leading firms , ready to ship beta-tested product , in client/server software , software tools for business applications , X-terminal and workstation software , wireless networks and software for networking and telecommunications . |
| 17 | As late as October 1958 Khrushchev referred in the same breath to ’ the tragic fate of Guatemala' and ’ the heroic but unequal struggle of the Cuban people ’ . |
| 18 | At a news conference in Nairobi on Aug. 6 Kouchner spoke in the strongest possible terms of the seriousness of the situation . |
| 19 | constitute a challenge to interference theory only to the extent that this theory is constrained to predict that the aversive CR acquired in the first stage of training should fail to transfer fully to a new test context . |
| 20 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 21 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 22 | This is a slightly different scene to the one Tennyson portrays in the same setting in his poem ‘ The miller 's Daughter ’ , where he describes the miller consuming a beverage : |
| 23 | The classic example of his footwork was the first Wigan try in the 1985 final . |
| 24 | Concern about security in northern Namibia increased in the early part of 1990 due to a number of cross-border raids from Angola into north-east Ovamboland and Kavangoland . |
| 25 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 26 | It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits . |
| 27 | From 1773 Kitchin appears in the Royal Kalendar as hydrographer to the king . |
| 28 | After the Civil War ended in 1939 Ibárruri lived in the Soviet Union and was leader of the PCE in exile , first as secretary-general in 1942 and then as president from 1960 . |
| 29 | In January 1863 Golovnin acquiesced in the outright transfer of responsibility for censorship to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 30 | And only a super display from keeper David James kept the scoreline down as the Gunners romped to their third Anfield win in the last five seasons . |