Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 2 | She shrivelled in the icy blast of his scorn . |
| 3 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 4 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 5 | In this capacity , he also established ties with the Government of Mozambique , and helped in the gradual process by which relations between Mozambique and the EEC were put on a more constructive basis . |
| 6 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 7 | Two U S air force pilots have been killed after their Phantom reconnaissance jet crashed in the Southern Desert of Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 9 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 10 | More recently , Dr Snell has suggested that male real wages rose in the southern part of the country from 1740 to 1770 , then stabilised before the whole gain was wiped out in the French war years . |
| 11 | The number of part-time university students on degree courses ( other than OU students ) rose in the same period by 36% ( DES , 1989a , Table 1 ) . |
| 12 | He will also know that manufacturing investment actually rose in the third quarter of last year . |
| 13 | Resolved , That this House welcomes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Autumn Statement , which reaffirmed the Government 's forecast of a modest recovery in the second half of 1991 , with growth gathering pace in 1992 ; notes that the total output of the British economy rose in the third quarter of 1991 , providing further confirmation of this forecast ; and congratulates the Government on its sound and prudent economic policies , which have reduced inflation from nearly 11 per cent . |
| 14 | She dabbled in the outer reaches of the publishing world from her position as a wife and mother : after the birth of Time Out she began to contribute to its nascent poetry section . |
| 15 | Benjamin 's income came from any one or more of a series of sources , as we have seen : at times he earned wages as a silversmith or a clerk ; he also dabbled in the retail trade as a general salesman , and picked up some spare cash from his boarding houses . |
| 16 | That breakdown was reflected in the art of the period , which — as in Francis Bacon — partly protested and partly rejoiced in the excremental quality of the age . |
| 17 | Someone , something , moved in the dark shadows by the empty fire-grate , filled in summer with a copper jug stuffed full of artificial flowers . |
| 18 | In Vl the cells would only respond to the double grating if one of the two moved in the preferred direction of the cell as tested with simple stimuli . |
| 19 | Nothing moved in the entire length of Westmuir Street . |
| 20 | As he did so he moved in the dreamy way of a man in a state of shock . |
| 21 | Her eyes , or something very like her eyes , moved in the thick depths of the glass . |
| 22 | Serious rioting erupted in the northern town of Ramtha on Feb. 6-8 when police intervened to protect Syrian and Turkish trucks en route to Saudi Arabia . |
| 23 | Mr Enoch Powell asked himself only weeks before the riots erupted in the British cities in 1981 . |
| 24 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 25 | Some of the issues typically raised during standard-setting negotiations surfaced in the following case from my field notes : |
| 26 | With Tyson gone and Tucker 's prominence chequered in the continuing row over who Lewis should fight first , King has no charismatic heavyweight to bring in big money so sees Chavez as his passport into Mexico , where the fighter is viewed almost as a God and where vast live gates and previously untapped pay-per-view television income looms large . |
| 27 | The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C . |
| 28 | There is probably more gloom about the British economy than about several of the economies that he mentioned in the gloomy passage at the beginning of his speech . |
| 29 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 30 | Rachel stopped in the hot shadows beneath the front door , looked up . |