Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Spanish hostility was obviously a handicap to it , but when the charter was declared void in 1624 it was mainly because the Company was bankrupt ; the Spanish objection was to the colony rather than to the Company , and the colony was allowed to survive . |
| 32 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 33 | And then erm the lads in both they had decided they were gon na go on the go slow , but they were told if you go go on the on the go slow system , you 're gon na go home , he said , I 'm not prepared to carry on with that , he said , the manager there , that 's brother that is . |
| 34 | Publicity differs from the other promotional devices mentioned in this chapter in that it often does not cost the organization any money ! |
| 35 | Chepstow is unusual among British castles in that it was built largely of stone from the first with no primary timber phase . |
| 36 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 37 | In an interview in 1975 he declared that during his Persepolis party , " the whole world , from the United Nations to every capital , paid tribute to Cyrus and his kingdom … |
| 38 | Well I 'm prepared to say th th that I that I think that we do do good practice in that we do sit down with the children and help them , each individual along with the with our joint statements . |
| 39 | This network was so well developed that when Captain Hugh Clapperton ‘ discovered ’ Kano in 1824 he was able to obtain cash from a local merchant in return for a bill of exchange on the British consul at Tripoli . |
| 40 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 41 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 42 | It would indeed have defined a biological category of criminals , but as an explanation of crime in general it would have been virtually irrelevant . |
| 43 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 44 | When the family moved to Wargrave Hill in Berkshire in 1868 she supervised every aspect of the renovations . |
| 45 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 46 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 47 | In rural areas the school frequently serves as a focal point for the local community — its removal can have a detrimental effect in that it may become increasingly difficult to attract new families to settle , the younger age groups tend to drift towards the neighbouring towns and the average age of the remaining inhabitants goes on rising . |
| 48 | The regulations have one very unusual effect in that it is permissible to make a reproduction of a topography for the purpose of analyzing or evaluating that topography or the concepts , processes , systems or techniques embodied in it by section 226(1A) of the 1988 Act . |
| 49 | When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 . |
| 50 | Not a drop of gin or brandy ever touched me lips in all me born days . |
| 51 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 52 | In a timed swim across Honolulu Harbour in 1911 he covered 100 yards in 55.4 seconds , shattering the existing record by 4.6 seconds . |
| 53 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 54 | In an article in The English Review in 1913 she argued that the legislation had been carried by hysterical stories circulated by ‘ neuropaths and prudes ’ about the entrapment of white women . |
| 55 | It also severely restricts judicial review in that it does not allow any review for abuse of power , an essential tool in the control of unfettered discretion . |
| 56 | He had started his career in the law , but while attending court at Jedburgh in 1792 he met and became friends with Robert Shortreed , Sheriff-Substitute of Roxburghshire , and was invited on expeditions into Liddesdale to listen to old tales and verses . |
| 57 | The proposals , in force from April 1991 , contained in this document are consistent with the ideology of the administration in that it is an attempt to apply market principles to the institution which is the cornerstone of the British welfare state . |
| 58 | For a few months in 1796 she and her mother joined her father in Sligo ; here she studied the Irish language . |
| 59 | Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult ( a ) Extension of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem In 1.17 we showed that a matrix A satisfies its own characteristic equation , i.e. unc irrespective of the nature of the eigenvalues . |
| 60 | Now suppose we have a supersaturated solution of some substance , like hypo in that it was eager to crystallize out of solution , and like carbon in that it was capable of crystallizing in either of two ways . |