Example sentences of "in [num] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many similar examples could be constructed with other vowels ; some possibilities may be suggested by the list of words given in 9.2 to show the different spellings that can be pronounced with . |
| 2 | The ( private ) National Birth Rate Commission was set up in 1913 ; the Eugenics Society established the Population Investigation Committee in 1935 to analyse the new trends . |
| 3 | Only the most starry-eyed optimist could have supposed that the Union of the Crowns and then , at last , the Act of Union in 1707 making the two countries one would somehow bring immediate peace in a region with such memories . |
| 4 | The new Standing Orders adopted in 1882 , after Speaker Brand had intervened in 1881 to stop a forty-one hours sitting , allowed the closure of debate by a simple majority . |
| 5 | In particular , the 14 departmental select committees established in 1979 shadow the various departments of state such as Industry , Education , Environment but excluding the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 6 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 7 | A Gloucestershire clothier in 1774 detailed the various forms of theft and deception he had to guard against . |
| 8 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 9 | One coronory care unti in five operated an age-related admissions policy . |
| 10 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 11 | No later than early 716 Nechtan , son of Derilei , king of the Picts , approached Ceolfrith , abbot of the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow , for guidance on Dionysian Easter tables and the Roman dating of Easter ( HE V , 21 ) — probably at the time that the Northumbrian priest , Ecgberht , was persuading the church on Iona to adopt the same ( HE 111 , 4 ; V , 22 , 24 ) — and in 717 expelled the Columban communities from Pictland into Dál Riata ( AU s.a. 715 , 716 : AT p. 225 ) . |
| 12 | A resolution of the 20th international conference of the Red Cross at Vienna in 1965 affirmed the minimum principles to which states must conform : |
| 13 | The more highly convicted and at-risk profile of the AEC sample was also reflected by the fact that whereas nationally as many as 80 per cent of the persons commencing probation in 1988 had no additional requirements made to their probation orders , only six per cent of the probationers undertaking the AEC received this traditional type of probation order from the courts . |
| 14 | However , an Iranian proposal ( supported by Cuba and Libya ) that the Movement should become an organization with permanent headquarters ( preferably in Tehran ) was in conflict with an Egyptian proposal ( supported by Cyprus and the Gulf states ) to incorporate it into the Group of 77 ( founded in 1967 to represent the economic interests of the developing countries , currently numbering 130 . ) |