Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many forms of emission charges which may be used to provide economic incentives to polluters either to reduce or cease their pollution , including sales taxes on fuels or fuel ingredients : for example , Norway introduced fuel taxes in 1971 whereby a basic tax is levied on each unit of oil , together with an additional charge which increases for each 0.5 per cent of its sulphur content . |
| 2 | Hastings Kamuzu Banda , Malawi 's ruler since independence , was proclaimed Life President in 1971 following a constitutional amendment . |
| 3 | A joint venture goes further than co-operation , in that generally a new business entity is created , but falls short of a full merger of the parents , who remain independent . |
| 4 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
| 5 | One strange chapter in this story came to be written at Geneva in 1986 when a difficult problem of ceiling division in conference was overcome by Iran 's proposal that Iraq be freed from the discipline of a quota , enabling it to produce as much as it chose . |
| 6 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 7 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 8 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 9 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 10 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 11 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 12 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 13 | Work began in 1975 when a small test-reactor at Ispra , near Milan , was switched by the Italian government to work on safety . |
| 14 | And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams . |
| 15 | though the Conservative government were able , in 1981 , to amend the GDO to increase the scope of permitted development from 10 to 15 per cent , the Labour government ‘ were forced to withdraw similar proposals in 1977 following a spirited battle in the House of Lords ’ . |
| 16 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 17 | The Commission was only beginning to get into its stride in 1970 when a new government was returned which was pledged to the abolition of the commission on the grounds that it ‘ had no place in a free society ’ . |
| 18 | In general only a small proportion of the specialised product enterprises involved the women of the family with a high involvement in North Yorkshire ( 100% ) and Wester Ross ( 67% ) . |
| 19 | Yet a significant event occurs in 1730 when a labouring class poet moves toward the centre of contemporary culture , eventually to be seen as a candidate for the laureateship . |
| 20 | She continued : " We failed you in 1938 when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence . |
| 21 | And it all began in 1890 when a successful businessman , who could not dance a step , presented four ordinary little girls from Manchester in a pantomime at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool . |
| 22 | The Constitution was suspended in 1974 following a military coup [ see pp. 26486-97 ] , and the country was ruled by a Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché until his death in November 1987 , when the Supreme Military Council appointed the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces , Brig. |
| 23 | The Constitution was suspended in 1974 following a military coup [ see pp. 26496-97 ] , and the country was ruled by a Supreme Military Council under Lt.-Col. Seyni Kountché until his death in November 1987 , when the Military Council appointed the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces , Brig. |
| 24 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 25 | There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep . |