Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 .
2 Therefore , formal protests were made when Hitler announced compulsory military service in 1935 and an increase in military forces , in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles , and when Italy invaded Abyssinia .
3 The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 .
4 He obtained a BA in mathematics ( thirteenth wrangler ) in 1881 and an MA in 1885 .
5 He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe .
6 Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) .
7 The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year .
8 With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career .
9 Two important exhibitions re-established the reputation of the association at this time : The Women of Today in 1929 and The Child in 1930 .
10 Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 .
11 He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 .
12 Two telescopes image the Sun , one in soft and the other in hard X-rays between 0.2 and 100 keV , with angular resolutions of 2.5 and 5 arcseconds , respectively .
13 William Dunlop disposed of most of his horses in 1917 and the remainder in 1920 .
14 He was educated at Winchester College ( 1915–20 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1920–3 ) , where he read mathematics , winning an entrance scholarship , becoming a senior scholar in 1921 and a wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1923 .
15 Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 .
16 From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 .
17 The Peugeot 405 , both non-turbo and turbo , is now in group 8 ; previously the non-turbo was in 4 and the turbo in 5 .
18 It was not until the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1981 that the law in Northern Ireland was in breach of its convention that the process of reform started there , bringing change that was fifteen years behind England and Wales , and twenty-five years after the publication of the Wolfenden Report .
19 To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the total number of people in the Greater London area receiving social security benefits in 1978-79 and the total in 1990-91 .
20 She was elated at having pocketed some £400,000 over the season and at the thought of playing in the Solheim Cup , but , also confessed to disliking the life in general and the travel in particular .
21 After Palladianism came the Rococo ; examples of the style are rare nationally but Bristol in general and the University in particular are generously endowed .
22 Poulantzas has argued , however , that these features of the state apparatus in general and the bureaucracy in particular may not be very significant .
23 Hornby was anxious that the CNAA machinery in general and the office in particular should remain modest in scale .
24 While many of these ideas have lost some of their tenacity , the length of life of the housing stock and the sluggishness of change in urban structure means that it is particularly difficult to change house design to conform to changes in the position of women in society in general and the family in particular .
25 In his 14 years as president , both tennis in general and the ITF in particular have undergone enormous development and Mr Chatrier can take much of the credit for the changes which have taken place .
26 Is it enough for society in general or the patient in particular to leave decisions over life and death to the doctor ?
27 Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution .
28 Quality Chilled Foods have asked you , a public relations consultant , to advise them what to do in relation to their retail customers in particular and the public in general .
29 Two studies have been made of police records relating to suspicions , one in the Lothian and Borders region in 1982 and the other in the Thames Valley in 1984 .
30 Some people would say they had a lot in common and no doubt in some ways they have … except I 'm sure that Philippe …
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