Example sentences of "in the [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
| 2 | Shirk 's work , already alluded to , focused on the ways high school students in the 1960s pursued their own objectives within a highly politicised social setting . |
| 3 | Similarly the Faber book-jackets , designed by Berthold Wolpe in the 1960s employing his own typeface Albertus , convey a sense of literary energy and creativity . |
| 4 | Welcome relief Sadly , while we have plots focusing on homelessness , drug abuse and adultery in the 90s dominating our regular visits to soap land it would be a welcome relief to have the odd outburst of laughter . |
| 5 | In the first take we all ran totally naked off the set — Ken , nostrils flaring as camp as ever — into a whole group of girls who had heard it was going to happen . |
| 6 | Peter King 's band leading role continues in the 1990's extending his 1980 's achievements , his numerous club appearances , acclaimed albums and regular poll winning triumphs . |
| 7 | Thus Deacon has shown how ‘ the genuinely seeking work test ’ was manipulated in the 1920s to make it difficult for unemployed people to establish their claim to benefit . |
| 8 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 9 | However , the steadily increasing weight of express trains in the 1890s made it obvious that more powerful locomotives would be required . |
| 10 | The fluid political situation in the 1930s made it inevitable that the " Left " was strengthened as it was in all other democratic societies . |
| 11 | Chester Carlson came from a poor background and after graduating from Cal-Tech in physics in the 1930s found himself unemployed . |