Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern Bengal 's broad engine works at Saidpur feature two superb examples of inter-war Stephenson 0–6–0 tender heavy goods locos , slightly modified in West Bengal in 1936 I was reliably assured by the works ' superintendent that both of the black-painted engines were recently in steam . |
| 2 | Gilbert Edelson In 1962 I was an associate working with the law firm where the late Ralph Colin was a managing partner . |
| 3 | I 'm a transcendentalist in that I think for myself , no one tells me what to do in my career , my training . |
| 4 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 5 | When the Abwehr sent me to Ireland in forty-one I met a friend of his in Dublin . |
| 6 | When the Abwehr recruited me to go to Ireland in forty-one I did the usual radio and Morse code course . ’ |
| 7 | I first drew attention to the shortcomings of this edition in 1981 I was not the first to suspect it : as long ago as 1964 Sir Charles Mackerras , in preparing Castor et Pollux for a BBC broadcast , became suspicious of some of the scoring , went over to Paris to inspect the sources for himself , and made some extensive last-minute changes . |
| 8 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 9 | When I graduated in Economic and Social History from Bristol in 1982 I had no idea that I would be earning my living as a thatcher , one of the few women working in that field , some eight years later . |
| 10 | A few months after I joined the Department of Transport in 1979 I was presented with an issue which had baffled governments for well over a hundred years . |
| 11 | EVERY day in 1992 I have rounded off the page with an And … |
| 12 | One day in 1826 I brought a box of toy soldiers home from Leeds . |
| 13 | But one day in 1989 I got a phone call from Bob Woodward , founder and chairman of CLIC , the Cancer and Leukemia in Childhood Trust . |
| 14 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 15 | When I left the Civil Service in 1987 I was rather pessimistic . |
| 16 | ‘ When I first come to Paris in 1979 I am desperately lonely . |
| 17 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 18 | And this causes me difficulties in that I have to either imagine what it was or come back again to see whatever the er item in question is . |
| 19 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 20 | On leaving GLF in 1972 I did n't realize that I was now a separatist ; those of us who were did n't use the word . |
| 21 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 22 | It means that any office development or commercial of this kind in this I twelve policy that was to occur in Harrogate would not be counted off the sixty hectares of em erm of I five allocation , it would be in addition to it , and that may be a very important breakthrough for us . |
| 23 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 24 | Before I moved to Sheffield in 1970 I had done my homework and knew that for a first visit to this corner of the Peak the venue had to be the last of these three crags . |
| 25 | It gives me a tremendous advantage in that I can moor the punt about 15yds back from the top of the shelf , in the shallower water , out of sight of the bream . |
| 26 | I 'm glad to say that in the Navy such luxuries were not a part of our conditions of service , and when I was ordered back to Germany in 1949 I had no option but to return . |
| 27 | A sudden dedication to a foreign influence like Hegel or Derrida , brief but intense , is about the only thing there is that can cause the British to lose a sense of humour or a sense of proportion , and during the first London production of Waiting for Godot in 1955 I was reproached by strangers seated around me for laughing , though I still think it a funny play . |
| 28 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 29 | AT THIS stage of the last election in 1987 I was in the middle of writing a column when I had a call to say that the Sunday paper in which it was to appear had closed down . |
| 30 | When I left university in 1964 I went to live in Hackney in North East London . |