Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In a battle in the Menai Straits the Norwegians defeated a Norman force and slew one of its leaders , Hugh of Montgomery , second Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel [ q.v . ] .
2 They point to the structural changes in business groups , relationships and so on — and foresee that , as women take their place in the senior ranks a profound change will take place in the nature of work , childcare and maternity.What Naisbitt and Aburdene forecast is effectively a new work ethic .
3 Little research has yet been carried out on controls of brittle fracture within the subsurface , although Bj rlykke ( 1983 ) attributed cement dissolution ( and consequent secondary porosity generation ) to overpressuring , with subsequent cementation in the overlying strata a consequence of pressure release .
4 He also emphasised in an article in the Financial Times the cost of politicians meddling in art and referred to President Bush 's ditching of John Frohnmayer , Chairman of the US National Endowment for the Arts .
5 To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income .
6 By relaunching into the qualifying cauldron nations who had hardly made an impact in the earlier stages the organisers ran the risk of altering the natural hierarchy of the event and , therefore , the result .
7 She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption .
8 There were to accompany the army corps a number of shipwrights , caulkers , sailmakers and six hundred seamen , who [ would ] have settled at Cowes and Yarmouth for the winter , and built with the timber in the local yards a large quantity of gun-sloops …
9 Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide .
10 To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter .
11 If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use .
12 At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle .
13 For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base .
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