Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 2 | The inquisition also excludes holdings in Middlesex which he had passed to his younger son in 1271 and the lands he is known to have acquired in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire and which are later found in the possession of his family . |
| 3 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 4 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
| 5 | In less than a fortnight it will be the third anniversary of his death . |
| 6 | In less than a year I would reach retirement age and I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 7 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 8 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 9 | In less than a second it would tear a gap in the highway the width of the riverbed . |
| 10 | Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars . |
| 11 | The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark . |
| 12 | But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid . |
| 13 | In less than an hour he was changing his wet clothes . |
| 14 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 15 | Richard Hollins Murray patented the glass lens in 1923 and the profits he made helped him to buy Dinmore Manor four years later . |
| 16 | However , the company ran at a net loss of $28.7m as opposed to the $2.7m in profit it got in 1990 or the $4.2m it tallied in 1989 . |