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 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world . |
| 8 | Their occurrence with other prestigious grave goods in the burials of royal personages in ancient China points in the same direction . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 13 | Typically , the incorrigible William gets in the last word . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Understanding how the face of urban Britain emerged in the nineteenth century may pin-point how to tackle certain of the present problems , and , conceivably , identify the factors which set the die for urban life in the next century . |