Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 2 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |
| 3 | The Gold Coast was notable for the high mortality rate suffered by Europeans , and in 1891 he contracted black-water fever and was invalided home . |
| 4 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 5 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 6 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 7 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 8 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 9 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 10 | During and Spencer 's study differs from earlier ones in which microdialysis was used in that it involved chronic monitoring ( up to 16 days ) in conscious patients . |
| 11 | More significantly , however , the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 12 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 13 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 14 | When the firm became Bell Lawrie in 1986 he became managing director and the firm changed simultaneously from being a partnership to a limited company . |
| 15 | In 1986 he became general manager of the Care Fore Group 's residential and nursing homes . |
| 16 | In 1986 he became general manager for a private sector group 's residential and nursing homes and for the past year has been connected with the Bridge Hospital in Witham , involved with people with learning disabilities . |
| 17 | When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton ! |
| 18 | In 1829 he became resident engineer for the uncompleted Bolton and Leigh Railway and in 1830 resident engineer for the Liverpool section of the Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 19 | In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ . |
| 20 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 21 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 22 | In 1925 he received national press publicity for discoveries concerning malignant growths . |
| 23 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 24 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 25 | In public he expressed great contempt for the system , but he made use of it to an immoderate degree , particularly by bestowing honours — undue honours — on the least worthy of his personal friends and particularly if the suggestion was made by anyone close to him . |
| 26 | In public he paid handsome tribute to Modigliani , but the truth of their private relations is more tangled . |
| 27 | Intermittent tamarisk jungle grew along the banks of the Awash and in this I saw several herds of waterbuck , many warthog and an occasional bushbuck . |
| 28 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 29 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 30 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |