Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was finally sinking in that if a year could go by , then so could two , or even three . |
| 2 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 3 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 4 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 5 | It was the first ‘ invisible radiation ’ to be discovered , when William Herschel found in 1800 that a thermometer would register heat beyond the red end of the Sun 's visible spectrum . |
| 6 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |