Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly it was in vogue to have an all-over tan — so the barer the body the better !
2 He was buried in a war grave and the little boy who ran through the house in Forres waving a wooden sword now had a wooden cross with his name on it in Belgium .
3 The 17th-century Brodie Castle in Forres has a fine collection of furniture and paintings .
4 Thus by March 1947 , when the foreign ministers of the occupation powers met in Moscow to discuss a German peace treaty , the Anglo — Americans and Russia were already far apart in their German policies .
5 In August 1934 the Soviet Writers ' Congress held in Moscow provided a unique forum at which communists and non-communists could discuss positive measures to promote an anti-fascist cultural front .
6 This change in attitudes plays a crucial part in the development of a drawbridge mentality , which is replacing the more collective outlook of previous decades .
7 The change in hours compounds a long term upward trend in the number of night visits .
8 An analysis was undertaken for a subsample of 20 patients in each treatment group sampled from trial patients in Sheffield to derive a mean hospital cost per patient .
9 Kriss Akabussi , World and Olympic finalist , when he was stationed in the Army in Germany brought a new car into Britain and was stopped a number of times on his way to Hampshire .
10 That 's one of the very important advantages of this election result , and personally I think the Social Democrats in Germany made a great mistake by being equivocal on this issue .
11 Two Coldstream guardsmen who are accused of robbery while on the run from their unit in Germany made a second appearance before magistrates in Whitby .
12 Army schools in Germany provide a useful source of singers .
13 Captains had therefore to use their own resources to pay their men and bargain as best they could with the Exchequer ; but there is little evidence that delays in payment became a political issue .
14 They came within a week of the leaking of a US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) document , compiled by an agent in Panama investigating a cocaine-smuggling operation , which named more than 20 companies registered by President Endara 's law firm .
15 Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced .
16 St Edward 's Primary in Middlesbrough completed a 50/50 arrangement which began when 26 children and 14 adults travelled to Wagenberg and Terjheyden last Easter .
17 By keeping in personnel files a clear record of all known episodes of : absenteeism and poor time-keeping. ii .
18 They showed that a majority of patients in remission have an increased absorption of 5 1 Cr-labelled ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid ( EDTA ) , suggesting that coeliac disease was caused by a primary defect in intestinal mucosal permeability .
19 It seems clear that Rider Haggard intended Ayesha in part to embody a moral distinction between physical and ideal love .
20 These comments were in part reflecting a recent review of eight research studies on the frequency of childhood sexual abuse in the UK , published in Health Trends ( Markowe , 1988 ) .
21 These efforts by foreign offices to influence opinion in part reflected an increasing feeling among sections of the public , visible well before 1914 , that diplomacy was now too important to be left to diplomats .
22 Nor could he ignore American enthusiasm for British membership of the EEC , in part to ensure a better balance among the states of Western Europe , but also in the hope that Britain would strengthen those in the Community who favoured more liberal and outward looking economic policies .
23 In Times Square an off-duty law enforcement officer felt a knife against his throat as he went to catch a train home at 11.15pm .
24 A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years .
25 On April 14 , 1990 , the Foreign Ministers of the two countries met in Dakar to discuss a new framework for co-operation .
26 The next crisis in inter-communist relations was a result of the attempt by the Dubček leadership in Czechoslovakia to establish an alternative model of socialism , one that accorded more closely with the humanistic and democratic traditions of their country .
27 October , but it resulted in Czechoslovakia becoming a broken nation .
28 However , while the process of electing a national president went smoothly , state party elections revealed high levels of factionalism within the BJP and led to the intervention of the central leadership in attempts to restore a greater semblance of unity to the party .
29 This Report highlights some of the changes that trade unions have already experienced over the recent years in attempts to explore a new style of trade unionism that is in tune with the needs of working people .
30 These aspirations find expression in the Social Charter , and in attempts to develop a European dimension for industrial relations .
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