Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 . |
| 2 | So the horsepower is n't actually telling you how much energy in total but the rate at which it 's being used up . |
| 3 | The Charter of the Forest had tried to stop this abuse by enacting in 1217 that the number of foresters necessary to keep the forests should be determined ‘ by the view and oath of the twelve regarders when they make the regard ’ — that is , every three years . |
| 4 | While courses in business ethics are now among the most popular on business-school curriculums , many academics admit in private that the influence of their teaching is minimal . |
| 5 | It found that the prohibition of public meetings for political purposes , the requirement of permission from the police authority to hold such meetings in private and the authorisation of the military authority for the holding of indoor lectures were not consistent with Article 11 . |
| 6 | The next major phase of land degradation came after the abolition of slavery in 1838 and the rise of peasant agriculture . |
| 7 | They differ in that whereas the component of the gravitational field associated with J 2 has one zero per quadrant , the component associated with J 4 has two . |
| 8 | These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make . |
| 9 | On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " . |
| 10 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 11 | After the death of Henderson in 1935 and the removal of Lansbury from the leadership , disarmament and pacifism were less universally accepted among the Party 's members . |
| 12 | That book has not only attracted innumerable youngsters towards a laboratory career , it has also triggered off a wide range of faction — from Warner Bros 's contributions to bacteriology ( The Story of Louis Pasteur with Paul Muni in 1935 and The Story of a Ehrlich 's Magic Bullet with Edward G. Robinson in 1940 ) to the BBC Television series Microbes and Men in 1974 . |
| 13 | Since the hon. Gentleman mentioned YT in particular , I may say that we are investing £842 million in YT in 1991-92 and the figure for the year starting in April is £851 million . |
| 14 | Online searching : an introduction in 1980 and the textbook by Cochrane and Meadow Basics of online searching in 1981 . |
| 15 | From the map , make a list of the crops , including grass , in 1980 and the area for each . |
| 16 | A first step towards the abolition of poverty could be taken by restoring the earnings link for the uprating of National Insurance pensions abandoned in 1980 and the re-establishment of full entitlements to the state earnings-related pension cut in 1988 . |
| 17 | The Medium Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 provided the basis of the government 's monetarist economic strategy . |
| 18 | There were other pointers occasionally , such as Charles Kingsley 's book on Town Geology published in 1872 and the objection of Kropotkin ( 1893 , p. 350 ) to the trend to exclude man from physiography . |
| 19 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 20 | A women 's meeting was held during the church congress at Portsmouth in 1885 and the bishop of Newcastle , who was to be the speaker , persuaded Mary Sumner to tell the audience about her dream of a union of mothers . |
| 21 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 22 | The format for statutory planning has also changed , so that there is now greater public participation in the identification and evaluation of key issues , more formal examination in public and the presentation of several alternative planning options rather than a single final plan . |
| 23 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 24 | As a result the standard of craftsmanship to be found in some and the level of enthusiasm in all of his regular students is extremely high and the range of instruments produced expanding at the time . |
| 25 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
| 26 | This opposition and critique is first articulated in the American debates surrounding the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the writing of a constitution a decade later . |
| 27 | For example , while the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the enactment of the United States Constitution in 1787 were illegal under the old legal order , they were validated by , and received their legitimacy and authority from , the People of the United States , who accepted them and agreed to abide by the new constitution . |
| 28 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |
| 29 | I 'm sitting on this step with my tongue bit nearly in half and the top of my head about flush with my shoulders . |
| 30 | She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’ |