Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 2 | They were rejoicing in the splendid Irish Guinness they drank and bemoaned the sad state of beer back in Britain . |
| 3 | Even in the stale electric light he could visualise the scene like an old , blurred snapshot . |
| 4 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 5 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 6 | She infers from this : ‘ thus , in the appropriate real-life situation he learns concrete activities , not abstract generalisations ’ ( ibid. p. 170 ) . |
| 7 | In the mainstream Christian tradition it is the human suffering of God ( of God , not some limited , changeable , process-god ) that redeems our agonised world . |
| 8 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 9 | In the dark little passage she hesitated outside the door of the front room . |
| 10 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 11 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 12 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 13 | In the early middle ages we find a saint , St Eligius ( 588–663 ) , acting as goldsmith to Frankish kings . |
| 14 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 15 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 16 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 17 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 18 | Moreover , in the 1986 Green Paper it is stated that ‘ The main task of central government is to establish national policies and priorities for defence , foreign affairs and the economy as well as for public services — such as education — which are provided locally , but where there is a national interest in standards . ’ |
| 19 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 20 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 21 | The paper also discussed erm the proposed topics for discussion at the enquiry in public it explained where the county council 's er relevant policies would be found in the extra electory memorandum it outlined the key objections and the proposed participants for each topic . |
| 22 | When one people defeated another in the Ancient Near East it was usual for the victors to place in their own temples the sacred figures of the gods of the vanquished . |
| 23 | The elimination of Australian Dave Macaulay and Hawaiian Derek Ho , who would have had to win to keep their hopes alive , means that with one contest still to run in the Hawaiian Triple Crown he can no longer be overhauled . |
| 24 | I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil . |
| 25 | The Gruncher , hurtling along right behind them , was interested only in the glorious human scent he was following . |
| 26 | In the 1987 general election they presented you with a partisan newspaper , as in 1945 : nearly all were rooting for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 27 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 28 | In the two previous examples we have considered deformations in which . |
| 29 | In the New English Bible we find these words : ’ Glory to God in highest heaven and on earth his peace for men on whom his favour rests . ’ |
| 30 | However , in the new urban environments it was possible for the young and fit to earn good wages and therefore to be independent of their families . |