Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 2 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 3 | We should , of course , widen the context even further for , if in the movies preaching usually came hand in hand with melodrama , this should remind us that films were still firmly in the hands of showmen and they were free to use social comment and social settings as they thought best . |
| 4 | The closure was announced in a statement in Parliament which also revealed changes in store for most of the RAF 's other bases in the region . |
| 5 | We also incurred costs in connection with the re-positioning of our United Kingdom international brands which involved the rationalisation of a limited number of our facilities . |
| 6 | He later studied art in education at Exeter University . |
| 7 | Tesco 's auditors also received £0.2m in respect of non-audit work . |
| 8 | The owner who worked full time in the business paid himself a salary of £9,000 and also withdrew £1,000 in cash from the business to pay a pressing personal debt . |
| 9 | So when modernity in Berlin — in the arts , in the massive new development of the city — took shape , so to speak , against the state , it also took shape in opposition to the identity of the German Bürgertum . |
| 10 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 11 | In the past , raising productivity often went hand in hand with increased production ; now the emphasis will be on encouraging practices which will reduce costs , save energy , improve living and working conditions , protect and improve the environment and raise the quality and value of products leaving the farm . |
| 12 | During the Giscard Presidency : the news and current affairs coverage satisfied no-one : neither the President , who thought — and said — that the journalists of the state television had been better disposed toward his predecessors ; nor the socialist and communist opposition which periodically ran campaigns in favour of the freedom of news broadcasting . ’ |
| 13 | Colin Wallace , who two years ago got £30,000 in compensation for being wrongly dismissed by the Army , says , simply : |
| 14 | He then abandoned medicine in favour of the chemical industry . |
| 15 | The company recently raised $60m in capital via a share offering to fund its increased research and development efforts , including its Microsoft Corp Windows NT-based systems announced last week ( UX No 420 ) . |