Example sentences of "in [adj] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars .
2 This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required .
3 More significantly , however , the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term .
4 The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser .
5 That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more .
6 Table 1 gives some more detail , in this we exclude all subjects who made losses in excess of £10 .
7 Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck .
8 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
9 In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ .
10 In brief we requested that legislation be enacted to preserve the total assets of Pension Funds for the sole benefit of members , that there be equal number of members and employers as Trustees and that members would have the right to oppose Hostile Trustees .
11 His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him .
12 After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests .
13 I suspect that this ‘ split ’ happens at times in all women , and perhaps particularly in those who have some commitment to feminism .
14 In 1987 it embraced these proposals in an Act to apply to Scotland , to come into force in the financial year 1989 .
15 By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine .
16 In 1961 he founded another seminary , St Vincent 's College , Langbank , and served as its first rector until 1974 .
17 From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position .
18 In particular it monitors each firm 's conduct and capital adequacy .
19 In particular he thought that competence in computer literacy and manipulating information technology , which would help them to be ‘ lifelong learners , ’ were neglected .
20 In 1860 he left this company and joined Charles Shepherd of Leadenhall Street , the chronometer and horological instrument-maker and inventor of the electrical clocks used by the Royal Observatory .
21 He energetically supported various social reforms in England , and in 1860 he spent several months with British volunteers fighting for Garibaldi in the Risorgimento ( his mother was of Italian descent ) .
22 Conditions on Santiago , however , are truly formidable , In 1982 I spent several days in the interior of the island , seeing the terrifying flows of jagged , jumbled lava that makes walking difficult and cuts shoes to shreds in a short time .
23 At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly .
24 When it reported in 1955 it demanded less permissiveness , not more .
25 Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots .
26 On his journey ‘ through five republics ’ ( Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Uruguay , and Venezuela ) in 1905 he devoted more attention to railways than to any other single development .
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