Example sentences of "in [adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the battle of Otford in 776 was fought in the aftermath of the death of Heahberht or as a consequence of some other matter in dispute between Ecgberht and the Mercians , after 765 there is no certain evidence that Ecgberht was for long , if at all , ‘ a mere dependant ’ of Offa . |
| 2 | More significantly , the fact that the edicts of Guntram in 585 and of Chlothar in 614 were issued in the aftermath of Church councils raises the possibility that other royal legislation was attached to such councils , but that it has not been preserved . |
| 3 | Serbia was occupied in 1439 and became a Turkish province , but Murad 's siege of Belgrade in 1440 was repulsed by the Hungarians . |
| 4 | Indeed , the redistribution of boundaries that took place in 1948 was reckoned in the subsequent elections to have cost the Labour Party between twenty and forty seats . |
| 5 | the consensus on which the National Health Service was founded in 1948 was based on a service financed out of taxation . |
| 6 | Klein argues that the remarkable political consensus that existed on these principles in 1948 was accompanied by an even more profound consensus about the benefits of medicine and what it could achieve . |
| 7 | Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun . |
| 8 | There were 15 constituencies corresponding to the country 's 15 administrative Bezirke ( regions ) , the number of deputies in each being determined by the population in each case . |
| 9 | Only the hide-covered penthouse was occupied , and the three men in that were jammed at the opposite end , craning to watch the brilliant theatre ; the exchange at the gates upon which their survival depended . |
| 10 | Small world then , life 's I mean erm , child seat , there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the , the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back , cos I was running a bit late I was running a bit late anyway . |
| 11 | The controversy over the Tasaday , a group of 26 allegedly ‘ stone-age ’ cave-dwelling people ‘ discovered ’ in 1971 and pronounced a hoax in 1986 is based on the all-or-nothing ‘ cultural purity ’ argument of anthropologists . |
| 12 | It was made part of The East Surrey Regiment in 1916 , and in 1935 was converted to an anti-aircraft role as part of The Royal Engineers . |
| 13 | He was educated at Penzance and Bromsgrove Grammar Schools , and in 1861 was articled to a firm of solicitors in Penzance . |
| 14 | Nor was it surprising that after the apparently mindless brutality of the Amin years , Obote 's eventual return to power in 1980 was characterized by the continuing dominance of the army as the real force in Ugandan politics , supporting a parliamentary facade of no real legitimacy . |
| 15 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |
| 16 | The extension of the franchise to urban workers in 1867 was preceded by an agitation which was considerably more decorous than that before 1832 . |
| 17 | That contextual modulation of the general sense of dog can not explain the specific interpretation in 22 is shown by the lack of a parallel specific interpretation of canine ( in its jocular use as a noun ) when it is substituted for dog : |
| 18 | What the studious schoolboy of Looe learned in 1801 is disclosed in a handbill published that year by Mr. Clement Triggs , the school 's last master . |
| 19 | The ability to become this smiling persona in public is helped by the nature of bulimia which is a disease where sufferers can maintain their normal body weight — unlike its sister illness , anorexia nervosa where you slim to skin and bone . |
| 20 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 21 | In August 1973 a two-tier pricing system was introduced : the price of oil from wells already functioning in 1972 was fixed at a maximum of $4.35 per barrel ; oil from wells begun in 1973 or later and oil imports were exempted from the price ceiling . |
| 22 | A number of documents concerning trading contacts between the two countries in 1993 were signed at the meeting . |
| 23 | The division algorithm described in 2.1 is restricted to the case of a non-negative dividend , a positive divisor , and no overflow . |
| 24 | The British in 1979 were poised between a reverence for old historic symbols which had provided order and cohesion over the centuries , and an uneasy awareness that such reverence had become a recipe for immobilism and devotion to the outdated totems of the past . |
| 25 | Gross national product ( GNP ) grew by 7.6 per cent in 1990 , but a sharp drop to 3.5 per cent growth in 1991 was predicted in an Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) report published in March 1991 . |
| 26 | In 1990 , after unsuccessful fostering and further misfortune , she developed symptoms of anorexia nervosa and in 1991 was admitted to an adolescent residential unit for treatment . |
| 27 | People arrested late in 1991 were beaten at the time of their arrest and tortured and beaten while in detention . |
| 28 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 29 | Each unit in Streetwise is presented as an issue of a teenage magazine , introduced by a cover designed to stimulate speculation about the issue 's contents . |
| 30 | When big round collars came in these were worn outside the neck . |