Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started betting at greyhound stadiums , then extended to pony racing at Northolt Park , and in 1934 opened a one-room office in Jermyn Street . |
| 2 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 3 | Earlier this year America 's loss-making airlines tried in vain to block a similar arrangement between British Airways and USAir , after the British airline took a 24.6% stake in the American carrier . |
| 4 | Elke says she has tried once more in vain to buy a decent pullover for Fabian and tells how unfriendly the saleswoman in the shop was . |
| 5 | You probably could n't say the same for Howard Kendall — the Everton manager tried in vain to sign the big fellow from Luton earlier in the season . |
| 6 | A tiny chapel dedicated to Santa Maria do Calhau was built here in about 1430 and was enlarged in 1458 to serve the growing population . |
| 7 | Alison Assiter extends the notion of autonomy into the private realm where the tradition cautiously refrains from setting foot , and suggests that how we treat and are treated by other people in private has a direct bearing on our autonomy in the public sphere . |
| 8 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon in 1838 comes the following list of prices : |
| 9 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 10 | The main ‘ mistakes ’ were : the Communist Party 's forcible suppression of opposition in 1948 to establish a political dictatorship in Hungary ; the Stalinist era 's ‘ unrealistic pace of military preparation , ill-conceived industrialisation and the forced collectivisation ’ ; Stalinist ‘ harassment of millions of people , the mass violation of rights and intimidation ’ ; the violent Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian revolt , which is now now officially defined as a popular uprising ; and the party 's inability from the mid-1970s to continue the decentralisation of economic reforms launched in 1968 . |
| 11 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 12 | He is first recorded in 1770 beginning a seven-year engraving apprenticeship under William Palmer of London . |
| 13 | Greece joined the EC in 1981 , and Spain and Portugal joined in 1986 creating a potential market of 320 million consumers . |
| 14 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) , which in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution , was superseded by a National Assembly elected in December 1989 , when the CND assumed the role of an economic and social council . |
| 15 | An elected National Development Council ( CND ) in 1986 drafted a national charter to serve as the basis for a new Constitution which was adopted by referendum in September 1989 . |
| 16 | They have hitherto rejected Nauru 's claim , not least because an independent inquiry in 1986 set the appropriate compensation level at A$72 million . |
| 17 | The best-known effort of this kind was that made by Torcy in 1712 to prepare a small number of young men for the French diplomatic service by the creation of a ‘ Political Academy ’ . |
| 18 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 19 | The River Chelt has two headstreams , dammed at Dowdeswell in 1886 to form the substantial reservoir that now occupies the site . |
| 20 | He spent four years at a Liverpool shipping house and then in 1861 obtained a clerical post at Hutchinson 's alkali works in Widnes . |
| 21 | Statistics from the MARC Europe census taken in 1989/90 show a devastating loss of life . |
| 22 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 23 | Indeed the legendary ‘ Hawk ’ had led Dave Forbes on the never revealed mission to Iran in 1980 to rescue a British hostage . |
| 24 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |
| 25 | Acid deposition is not a new problem : for example , the term ‘ acid rain' was used first by Robert Angus Smith in 1872 to describe the polluted air of Manchester , England , which damaged vegetation , bleached the colours of fabrics and corroded metallic surfaces . |
| 26 | The first dispensary in Darlington was set up in 1808 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of King George 11 . |
| 27 | The crisis and propaganda of the 1880s persuaded the Conservative government in 1885 to establish a Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes . |
| 28 | The Treaty of Amiens in 1802 brought a brief peace , and by June 1803 Addington was again presenting a war budget . |
| 29 | Its accelerated transfer of four Iroquois helicopters to the PNG Defence Force in mid-1989 represented a major contribution to the government 's campaign against the BRA , as did a subsequent major shipment of small arms and ammunition . |
| 30 | Having proved the possibility of making good paper from such materials , Koops set up a company , the Straw Paper Manufactory , raised over £70,000 by issue of shares , and in 1801 erected a paper-making mill at Millbank in Westminster . |