Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town was an important Roman centre and the cathedral incorporates a Roman building which occupied the site in 1019 when the cathedral was begun ( 334 ) . |
| 2 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 3 | In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated . |
| 4 | Introduced in 1875 following seven years of political and social instability , this regime brought a generation of political peace based upon the dominance of big landowners , especially the landlords of Castile and the ‘ latifundists ’ of Andalusia . |
| 5 | In the 90 years following its discovery in 1875 only 5 t was recovered . |
| 6 | Homosexuality , which was invented in 1869 also from a Greek root ( homo , meaning ‘ same ’ ) , was seen in the same light and its male variety was banned in 1885 . |
| 7 | Britain 's No. 1 supermarket chain started out in 1869 when one John Sainsbury opened a dairy shop in London 's Drury Lane . |
| 8 | The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession . |
| 9 | Doubly foolproof in a way , since the 103/4 is , as I had been led to expect from someone in whose ears I have complete trust , one of the most ‘ out-of-thebox ’ loudspeakers that I have had the pleasure to use — one can be very quickly up and running with it and feel only the need to make relatively small adjustments to positioning and so on in due course as listening progresses ; such changes with this loudspeaker result in subtle rather than profound modifications to the sound . |
| 10 | Fumaroli 's book is a polemic and he takes a savage pleasure in destructive rather than constructive criticism of Jack Lang 's Ministry of Culture . |
| 11 | 7 The imperial façade of the Porticus of Octavia , Rome , a redevelopment of the monumental colonnaded enclosure built by the distinguished admiral Cnaeus Octavius in 168 BC . |
| 12 | One was the Feast of Purim ( Esther 9 ) to commemorate the Jewish deliverance from Haman , and later the Feast of Dedication ( John 10:22 ) celebrating the purification by Antiochus Epiphanes in 168 BC . |
| 13 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 14 | As a prophet Daniel had his limitations — Though he knew about the intervention of Rome in 168 B.C. which saved Egypt from conquest by Syria , he prophesied another war between Egypt and Syria , as if the Romans would not again have intervened . |
| 15 | The real explosion in calls , particularly from isolated people , happened in 1977–8 when Switchboard began to advertise in local papers and Tom Robinson put the phone number on the single sleeve of ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ . |
| 16 | When West Indies batted , Richards was soon laying into them , hammering a six and twenty fours in 119 not out . |
| 17 | Even so , it is clear that Eadberht , in contrast to Ceolwulf , was a warrior-king who reversed the quiescent policies of his immediate predecessors and extended the bounds of his kingdom , annexing the plain of Kyle in Ayrshire in 750 together with other territories . |
| 18 | Mr. Flack 's own interest began in 1934 when he was in court for the libel case brought against the MGM film company who had made a film about Rasputin . |
| 19 | In 1934 when my grandfather died , my grandmother had given her his silver-handled walking stick , and just fifty years later , in 1984 , she gave it to me . |
| 20 | It was edited by the young Jomo Kenyatta , who halted publication in 1934 when he went to England . |
| 21 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 22 | Eventually rationalization came in 1934 when a unified national means-test scheme for benefits additional to insurance benefits was devised , to be administered by the Unemployment Assistance Board ( UAB ) . |
| 23 | There is a distinguished series of subscription concerts from autumn to the succeeding summer ( they still talk with pride of the day in 1934 when Richard Strauss came to conduct his Don Quixote and Alpine Symphony ) but there are also free symphony concerts most weeks in the year , very popular particularly with Winterthur 's younger generation . |
| 24 | Pacifism and support for the League of Nations ( which were not always compatible ) appeared to have mass support , particularly in 1934 when the " Peace Ballot " was launched . |
| 25 | I met Franklin in 1934 when my parents gave me a trip to England ; we became engaged in 1936 and were married in 1939 . |
| 26 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 27 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
| 28 | So you just retired in retired just about the right time . |
| 29 | Had the Powells not come from England in 1609–10 there possibly would have been no Portadown , for a map of 1609 shows no trace of any settlement in the area . |
| 30 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |