Example sentences of "[art] [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you prepare for the change in 1990 you should bear in mind that further regulations on the new Business Rate are still to be published . |
| 2 | When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day . |
| 3 | When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day . |
| 4 | After the coup which established Edward III on the throne in 1330 he once again became an active royal agent , serving as envoy to France in 1331 and fighting in the Scottish campaigns of the mid-1330s . |
| 5 | Leave the railways with British Rail , and put the money in that they would spend on privatization to improve the service for all of us , and keep it as a national railway , please . |
| 6 | Roberts started work as an assistant to ( Sir ) Ralph Freeman [ q.v. ] of Sir Douglas Fox & Partners on the design of the Sydney harbour bridge for Dorman Long & Company , and when they were awarded the contract in 1924 he was transferred with the rest of the design team to their office in London . |
| 7 | When she left the Slade in 1914 she had many new friends . |
| 8 | Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering by the University in 1983 he will confer Honorary Degrees , following his installation in the Great Hall , on the highly acclaimed concert pianist John Briggs ; Peter Flesher , Managing Director of Allied Colloids ; Sir Gordon Jones , Chairman of Yorkshire Water and Frank Mumby , former Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds University and piano tutor to Sir Trevor . |
| 9 | However , the Press does differ from the rest of the University in that it achieves its aims solely through publishing and printing . |
| 10 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 11 | Japanese department stores differ from those in the West in that they not only sell goods but also organise cultural events of importance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 14 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
| 15 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I could n't agree more , that offends decency and of course there is a distinction , a complete distinction between toughness of training and in the infantry in particular it 's very tough , and bullying . |
| 19 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 20 | Our Sun is in a minority among the stars of the Universe in that it seems to be solitary . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Called to the Bar in 1955 he became a QC in 1972 , MP for Tunbridge Wells in 1974 , and attorney-general in 1987 . |
| 23 | After the Marchioness river boat sank in the Thames in 1989 it was revealed that the ship that crashed into it — the Bowbelle — had been involved in three previous river accidents . |
| 24 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 25 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 26 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |
| 27 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 28 | Yearly tenancies held at rack rents ( i.e. rents that were not fixed by custom but which were negotiated by the landlord and tenant ) were common for the smaller farms and cottages and in the Midlands in particular they were usual for any property other than a freehold . |
| 29 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 30 | After the Restoration in 1660 he took part in a scheme for establishing a godly commonwealth in the Palatinate and maintained his connection with the Durham Baptists , while practising as an apothecary in London . |