Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 2 | In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year . |
| 3 | The term of service was reduced by his successors and in 1762 it was made voluntary , but the great bulk of the officer corps continued to be staffed by hereditary noblemen . |
| 4 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 5 | to my senior command and in 1986 I informed my chief officers of the acceptance of my Ph.D . |
| 6 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 7 | Dan Mason of the Chiswick Polish Company — ‘ Cherry Blossom Polish ’ — was a great benefactor and in 1922 he bought Boston House in Burlington Lake , Chiswick , and had it converted into a club for the female staff of his Company 's factory . |
| 8 | By 12 November the thrice-decorated Braham had destroyed twelve enemy aircraft and in 1942 he was posted to command 141 Squadron at Ford , near Chichester , Sussex , as the youngest wing commander in the RAF . |
| 9 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 10 | When she was Prime Minister , relations with the United States and in particular he personal contacts with President Reagan , were far more special than they are now . |
| 11 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 12 | Ermann and Lundman ( 1982:148 ) show that the heaviest fine in 1961 was the equivalent of $12.30 and in 1976 it was $1.80 ! |
| 13 | In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris . |
| 14 | This knowledge is unfortunately of little help in actually factorising f and in general we have to be content with approximation methods . |
| 15 | She does want to be ‘ one of the gang ’ and to be admitted to the fortress den and in this she is successful . |
| 16 | It disappeared for centuries but in 1725 it was rediscovered in Ballinabeck graveyard in the parish of Scarva and is now in the National Museum in Dublin . |
| 17 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 18 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 19 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 20 | The colonial government entered the field of the press soon after the German defeat when in 1923 it introduced Mambo Leo ( ‘ Affairs of Today ’ ) . |
| 21 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 22 | Clearly this is what Andrea 's nephew Giovanni ( C. 1555–1612 ) had in mind when in 1587 he published a collection of motets , Mass-movements , and madrigals by his uncle and himself as Concerti ( a very early use of the term ) per voci , & stromenti Musicali ; a 6.7.8.10.12. & 16 . |
| 23 | Blake was then posted as an MI6 officer to the British Legation in Seoul , Korea where in 1950 he and other members of the legation staff were captured by the North Koreans and held prisoner until the spring of 1953 . |
| 24 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 25 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 26 | Despite a barrage of criticism Mr Rees pressed ahead with plans for Theatr Clwyd in Mold and in 1976 it was opened by the Queen . |
| 27 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 28 | A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits . |
| 29 | Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |