Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ . |
| 2 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 3 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 4 | She sat down in the one comfortable chair ; it had come from their housekeeper 's room , and had found its way to Billy 's kitchen , like the strip of Turkey carpet with the hole in the middle . |
| 5 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |
| 6 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 7 | And then my mother and father came down in the four bed when we moved to ninety five in the four bedroom yes , they brought their bedroom suite down with them . |
| 8 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 9 | 4,000 Meteors were produced at the Gloucester aircraft company at Brockworth , which closed down in the 1960s . |
| 10 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 11 | There is not the space here for a detailed examination of the regime laid down in the 1981 Act and the Education ( Special Educational Needs ) Regulations 1983 , as amended . |
| 12 | The procedure is laid down in the 1971 Planning Act — Section 26 — and is a prerequisite for a valid application . |
| 13 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | It was laid down in the 1991 Duopoly Review that it should not be allowed to offer entertainment until at least 1997 , when the situation will again be reviewed , and possibly for another three years after that . |
| 15 | However , the present author is one of those who has doubts as to how far this possibility would be used : the protocol on Social policy refers to continuing ‘ along the path laid down in the 1989 Social Charter ’ ( also signed by eleven Member States ) . |
| 16 | That church blew down in the nineteen thirty two hurricane . |
| 17 | So we are entitled to ask why scores are n't even lower — possibly down in the 50s . |
| 18 | As long ago as 1970 , the Coldstream-Summerson Report reflected the growing concern about vocational courses and suggested they be recognized so that they became design ‘ technician ’ courses along the lines of the definition laid down in the 1969 Haslegrave Report . |
| 19 | The survey was based on the cleanliness grades laid down in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act . |
| 20 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 21 | Grant Fox kicked the all-important goal and the Lions went 1–0 down in the three match series . |
| 22 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 24 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 25 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 26 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 27 | The full results of this strategy should show through in the 1989 profit figures . |
| 28 | They were the only ones allowed through in the five weeks the children were away from home . |
| 29 | The Foreign Secretary stressed , however , that aid on its own can never ensure reform is successfully carried through in the two countries . |
| 30 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |