Example sentences of "in [adj] [that] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The merged ‘ Norfolk and Suffolk Polled ’ could be any colour as long as it was polled and it was not until the Red Poll herdbook was formed in 1874 that the colour of the breed was formally agreed as red , preferably deep in colour , with a red udder ; white touches were permitted only in the tail switch , or on the udder and just in front of the udder on the inside flank . |
| 7 | Indeed , Garfield said in 1979 that the tail of the distribution for ranked citation data from one specialty will most likely contain the highly cited core journals from other specialties . |
| 8 | It talks of anecdotal evidence in 1991 that the carrying of knives is on the increase among young people and it quotes Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Stoodley , who works in east London , as saying : ’ I have never known so many people to be carrying these weapons . ’ |
| 9 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 10 | But no medieval kingdom would seem even tolerably peaceful to a modern visitor ; and it was not until after Otto I 's great victory over the Magyars at the Lechfeld in 955 that the fear of invasion and plunder from outside Germany was forgotten . |
| 11 | Interestingly enough , although Johnnies was incorporated in South Africa and its interests located predominantly in South Africa , it was only in 1962 that the Board of Johnnies , decided to transfer the registration of the company from the UK to South Africa . |
| 12 | James Worthy reported in 1950 that the policy of the American Sears Roebuck company was to have as wide a span of control as possible between stores managers and their subordinates , the merchandising managers . |
| 13 | A friend at the Bar estimated to me in 1981 that a youngster of ability on the common law side can go up to eight or ten thousand pounds , but then tends to reach a plateau . |
| 14 | Sir Alec Cairncross , himself a distinguished practitioner of the Keynesian policies of the 1950s and 1960s , ruefully recalled in 1981 that the standing of economists , which was at its peak just after the war , was now back ‘ at its pre-war low ’ . |
| 15 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 16 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 17 | Something of a shift in official perspectives was signalled by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins 's famous demand in 1966 that the ideology of assimilation be replaced by an ethic of ‘ equal opportunity accompanied by cultural diversity ’ . |
| 18 | showed in 1923 that the handedness of coiling in snails is controlled by a single pair of genes . |
| 19 | Surely we should not cease to remind ourselves and the world in general that the use of language is deeply political . |
| 20 | It may be said in general that the designer of a superconducting circuit needs to worry about the response time and energy of superconducting electrons . |
| 21 | It was not until the death of Bishop Haeddi in 705 that the territory of the western Saxons was partitioned between Aldhelm ( at Sherborne ) and Daniel ( at Winchester ) ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 22 | Rowntree had estimated in 1900 that a family of two adults and three children required a minimum income of 20s. 6d. per week . |
| 23 | Four years later Agate was surprised that the film version of J. M. Barrie 's A kiss for Cinderella was so good and in particular that the acting of the American star Betty Bronson had equalled the stage performance of Miss Hilda Trevelyan for what the latter had done with her voice ‘ this little screen actress does with her eyes , which are the windows of as lovable a soul as was ever born into the world of make-believe . |
| 24 | In fact , various conditions are laid down in the section itself ; in particular that the nature of the document must be made clear , and that it must contain a statement by the company 's auditors of their opinion on whether the statement is consistent with the accounts and reports and complies with the section and the regulations . |
| 25 | On receipt of the claim form it should be checked for completeness and in particular that the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) section has been completed , stamped and signed . |
| 26 | It is with the publication of Ideology and Utopia in an English translation in 1936 that the sociology of knowledge begins its uncomfortable incorporation into the discipline of ‘ sociology ’ . |
| 27 | It was not in fact until a newly legalised Solidarity had been successful at the polls and formed a majority administration in 1989 that the making of public policy began again to command at least a minimum of public acceptability . |
| 28 | A proposal emerged in 1974 that the work of the two committees should be transferred to the CNAA , a working party of the three bodies was set up , and in November 1975 the CNAA 's Management Studies Board considered a statement of intent . |
| 29 | Arthur Acland , the Liberal politician and president of the Association , announced in 1910 that the Board of Education " would welcome help from us in putting forward a scheme for English teaching in Secondary Schools " . |
| 30 | The distinguished critic of imperialism , E.D. Morel , wrote after a visit to Nigeria in 1910 that the administration of the North was a ‘ tour de force ’ and revealed that , ‘ with all her faults , Britain does still breed sons worthy of the highest traditions of the race ’ . |