Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A general election was held in December 1989 and a new President of the Executive Council was sworn in in January 1990 [ see pp. 37135 ; 37198 ] . |
| 2 | Mahmood Ali was appointed Governor of Madhya Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Sarla Grewal , who had been sworn in in March 1989 [ see p. 36695 ] . |
| 3 | Describing his government 's policy on March 8 as the " only possible programme " , Olszewski sought to broaden the base of his coalition , sworn in in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] . |
| 4 | Rates of pay for care proceedings are laid down in Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 5 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 6 | As such it is seen as the first part of a larger work , to be completed by sequel works of a similar kind but which will be separately specified and will be covered by separate agreements in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in Clause 14.1 . |
| 7 | Under the new system ( laid down in sections 26–32 of the ERA 1988 ) schools would be able to admit pupils until they were physically full — a stage reached when no additional pupils could be accommodated without the school being in breach of the law governing the use of school premises ( see below ) . |
| 8 | Though popular with his contemporaries , and a fine sportsman , gaining a tennis half-blue at Cambridge , Horne did not have a spectacular academic career and was sent down in December 1927 . |
| 9 | Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , Poland 's last communist leader ( from 1981 , and Lech Walesa 's predecessor as President , stepping down in December 1990 ) , appeared on Sept. 22 before the Constitutional Accountability Committee , together with 13 communist ex-leaders , on criminal charges over the imposition of martial law in 1981 . |
| 10 | Relations between the two companies broke down in December 1975 , when Virgin 's lawyers terminated the contract , with the Clarkes claiming that Virgin owed them money . |
| 11 | Qin had founded this weekly journal in 1980 and it had played a major role in the campaign for economic and political reform in China until being closed down in April 1989 following the outbreak of student demonstrations [ see p. 36587 ] . |
| 12 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 13 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 14 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 15 | Once such an amendment of the articles is in place we would suggest that the chairman of the board ( or the company secretary ) should ascertain each board member 's decision by phone and minute as follows : ‘ Following the procedure laid down in Art 93 ( or whatever ) of the company 's articles the board resolves that … ‘ . |
| 16 | Armani shot down in flames those who thought the empire he founded in 1974 would die with the demise of the business half of his partnership ; he learnt fast and today manages to be all money , all business , without sacrificing the brilliant creative edge which has made him fashion 's greatest superstar for the past decade . |
| 17 | And all Mr Clinton 's supporters look nervous when reminded that California 's Proposition 166 , which tried to make firms pay for health-insurance for all their employees , was shot down in flames last November on the grounds that it would destroy jobs . |
| 18 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 19 | down in Division three hereford are still searching for their first league win of the season … tonight they 're at home to Wycombe … on saturday they went down to Lincoln … the score 2-1 |
| 20 | down in Division three hereford are still searching for their first league win of the season … tonight they 're at home to Wycombe … on saturday they went down to Lincoln … the score 2-1 |
| 21 | Also going well are Hereford United down in Division three … two wins in a row now … it was 3-0 against Wigan last Saturday … one-nil against Walsall in the Autoglass Trophy on Tuesday night and they 've got to play the Saddlers again tomorrow |
| 22 | Down in division 3 , Hereford United are trying to shake off a run of 3 league defeats in a row . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there is the blueprint for EMU laid down in stages two and three of the Delors report , a far more ambitious scheme which would mean a European central bank , a single currency , a framework for budgetary policy and , in effect , pave the way for political union . |
| 24 | Well we 've got that huge one then they go down in size all the way . |
| 25 | Somehow , though , she managed to keep her head , ‘ Of course , ’ she replied , but quickly followed up , ‘ Though I always prefer to write my work down in longhand first . ’ |
| 26 | An official ‘ democracy wall ’ in another part of the city did not have the same appeal as the original and even that was closed down in September 1980 . |
| 27 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
| 28 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |
| 29 | Unrest in Algeria was quickly repressed in May 1945 and trouble in Madagascar was ruthlessly put down in March-April 1947 . |
| 30 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |