Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [art] [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 | Syngman Rhee was born in 1875 into a branch of the royal family but one lacking in wealth . |
| 3 | In Skircoat Moor Road is a slender octagonal tower 253 feet high which was built in 1875 as a chimney for the dye-works of J.E . |
| 4 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This somewhat uncourageous solution was confirmed in 1869 by a convention between Turkey and Persia in which each side undertook to respect the status quo until a settlement was arrived at . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 10 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 11 | The ULF had been founded in 1920 but remained a small organization affiliated to the Labour Party in 1934 on a membership of only three hundred . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Doctor Bailey , and later Doctor Lovell , remonstrated in vain about a diet of beer , pickled onions , pork pie and cold sausages , occasionally varied by Albert 's own cooking in a disgusting frying pan when the spirit moved him . |
| 15 | He applied in vain to the Admiralty for his master 's warrant . |
| 16 | ACTOR Clint Eastwood 's fan club has folded — after asking him in vain for a fistful of dollars . |
| 17 | On my next visit to Southampton I tried in vain for a chat with the young man who had just won a match for Hampshire and deserved to bask in a discreet amount of praise . |
| 18 | Both men left hurriedly for their meeting place with the LRDG where they waited in vain for a week for stragglers to come in . |
| 19 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 20 | In fact , the reader will seek in vain for an explanation of just how the column-inches in 2 million articles in local American newspapers over 12 years are converted into the 10 ‘ megatrends ’ . |
| 21 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two Tass reporters said tear-gas shells were fired over the heads of the demonstrators at around 11pm after an army officer had appealed in vain through a megaphone for them to disperse . |
| 27 | Jaq looked in vain through a lens for identification marks , badges , or names . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The pagans then got ready for battle , but in vain against the people of God . |
| 30 | 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 . |