Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | Even in the stale electric light he could visualise the scene like an old , blurred snapshot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She infers from this : ‘ thus , in the appropriate real-life situation he learns concrete activities , not abstract generalisations ’ ( ibid. p. 170 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 8 | In the dark little passage she hesitated outside the door of the front room . |
| 9 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 10 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 11 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 12 | Arriving in this country they established themselves as farmers and in the early 19th century they farmed at Allington Castle and then travelled through various parts of England as farmers until arriving back in Kent . |
| 13 | When a coinage did reappear in the reign of the Northumbrian king , Eanred , in the early ninth century it did so at a lower silver standard which continued to decline . |
| 14 | In the early twelfth century it was two shillings ; a century earlier it must often have been considerably more . |
| 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 third century it had been rebuilt with a new wall inside its robbed-out predecessor . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Gruncher , hurtling along right behind them , was interested only in the glorious human scent he was following . |
| 23 | In the 1987 general election they presented you with a partisan newspaper , as in 1945 : nearly all were rooting for Mrs Thatcher . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Described by a recent historian of the North-east as " one of the most rigorously controlled and poorly paid of all British labour " , even in the mid nineteenth century it paid only about 3s ( 15p ) a week . |
| 26 | In Shetland a number of pairs of the white-tailed sea-eagle used to nest in the high cliffs , but in the late nineteenth century they went into a decline and the last pair nested in 1914 . |
| 27 | In the late nineteenth century it was also the mother who attended the School Board ‘ s hearing on the case and then , if necessary , appeared before the magistrate , despite the summons being invariably served on the father . |
| 28 | Some women managed to keep their condition secret and in the late nineteenth century it was probably these women who were responsible for many of the infanticide cases . |
| 29 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 30 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |