Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 2 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 3 | Perhaps Wright 's success is best symbolized by the construction in 1869 of the roof of St Pancras station , a 240-foot tied arch of cast iron , weighing 9,000 tons , with no intermediate structure , probably then the largest single span of its kind in the world . |
| 4 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 5 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 6 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 7 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
| 8 | He applied in vain to the Admiralty for his master 's warrant . |
| 9 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 10 | Now , little more than sixty years later , with the Empire admittedly gone and only too many ‘ works ’ closed down , but with little of eternity used up , the brow of every hill in England may be searched in vain for the sight of a plough team . |
| 11 | While the conscious mind looks in vain for the source of the unease , neck-hairs rise in response to it , and the stomach churns and flutters . |
| 12 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 13 | They protested in vain at the invasion of what was to become 3-500,000 Chinese soldiers , stationed on the pretext of ’ liberating ’ Tibet from the ’ Feudal theocracy ’ enstated by the Dalai Lama and his followers . |
| 14 | The loose shroud impedes his progress and his feet strain in vain against the tie of the bottom knot , a highly stylized gathering , resembling more a crimped ruff . |
| 15 | The pagans then got ready for battle , but in vain against the people of God . |
| 16 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 17 | At the same time the collapse of the American silk market in 1929–30 following the onset of the Great Depression brought a fall in silk prices of cataclysmic proportions . |
| 18 | On your immediate right is the tiny , oval Chapel of the Assumption built in 1590–7 as the Chapel of the Brotherhood of Italian Painters , Sculptors and Masons . |
| 19 | Euler proved it in 1736 by the method of exercise 1.4.17 and later generalised it . |
| 20 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 21 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 22 | This is the kind of reasoning you hear when senior men think aloud in private about the theme of Cabinet government : |
| 23 | Instances given by insiders include the total abolition of the closed shop ; the radical breaking-up of the National Health Service ; student loans ; rates ; vouchers for schools ; and , in earlier , pre-Hillsborough days , the restoration of what she and the late Airey Neave used , according to insiders , to refer to in private as the restoration of good local government in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | Edward Bohun , a younger brother of the Earl of Hereford , received 400 marks , worth of land and was granted the office of Constable in view of the infirmity of the earl himself ; John Neville of Hornby and Robert de Ufford , a knight of Suffolk who had served in Gascony in 1324–5 with the Earl of Rent , were given 200 marks for ‘ helping in the same enterprise ’ . |
| 25 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 26 | Regular post natal classes were started by Kent County Council Health Department at Sidcup , KENT in 1943 on the recommendation of Dr. Anni Knoll ; it was here that Molly was persuaded to teach again in 1947 , starting the snowball which led eventually to nationwide representation . |
| 27 | The new service was introduced in 1635 on the roads between London and Edinburgh , Plymouth , and Chester and Holyhead ( for Ireland ) , and on by-roads off these major routes . |
| 28 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 29 | One especial favourite was David Mitchell who had joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of fifteen . |
| 30 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |