Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 2 | Open war was declared against Scotland in 1542 and against France in 1543 ; campaigns were mounted against the Scots in 1542 , 1544 , and 1545 ; a small expedition was sent to Flanders in 1543 and a large one to France in 1544 . |
| 3 | His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship . |
| 4 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 5 | He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 . |
| 6 | Already a common councilman for Queenhithe ( since 1711 ) and a well-known opponent of the great Whig financiers who dominated the City 's upper court , he became alderman for the Tory ward of Castle Baynard in 1722 and a leading City critic of Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 7 | The Federative Republic of Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822 and a federal republic in 1889 . |
| 8 | Pending the finalisation of the selection scheme additional applications have had to be made for approval of an interim scheme for entry in 1992/93 and a developed scheme for 1993/94 . |
| 9 | In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 . |
| 10 | In October GCE and Fiat merged while Renault 's share cross-holding with Volvo was accompanied with the prediction in November 1990 of 2,500 job losses in 1991 and a further 5,600 job losses in 1992 . |
| 11 | The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council . |
| 12 | He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies . |
| 13 | To have faced only one Mrs Gould in eleven and a half years shows how much , not how little , television let Mrs Thatcher get away with . |
| 14 | Jean Rhys virtually disappeared as an author between 1939 and 1966 , and Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds passed similarly through a penumbra of neglect between first publication in 1939 and a popular reissue in 1960 . |
| 15 | He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 . |
| 16 | Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course . |
| 17 | His attack on a prominent Jesuit and his expansion of natural magic to embrace the allegedly miraculous powers of sacred relics led to denunciation by the Louvain medical faculty in 1623 and a subsequent appearance before the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 18 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 19 | He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 . |
| 20 | They need , above all , to become familiar with the British role model for a school teacher in general and a language teacher in particular . |
| 21 | One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients . |
| 22 | In 1967 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease decimated the herds of Cheshire in particular and a small group of local farmers restocked with imported Holsteins , because they were cheaper than British Friesians , and continued to import from North America in larger numbers . |
| 23 | Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 . |
| 24 | Future joint space observatories include the first large gamma ray observatory in 1985 and a cooled telescope for studying very short radio waves in 1987 . |
| 25 | Eventually , after further compromises to meet British objections about the public nature of the ministerial meetings , the foreign ministers of the Brussels states issued a communiqué on 29 January 1949 in favour of a Council of Europe ‘ consisting of a ministerial committee meeting in private and a consultative body meeting in public ’ . |
| 26 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 27 | the EEC directive in 1977 and a number of national projects , particularly MOTET have recommended training as an essential means for providing an adequate supply of teachers . |
| 28 | Champion for a second time in 1983 , he teamed up with Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1986 and a year later was champion for the third time . |
| 29 | All the published sermons preached at St Paul 's Cross in London from 1570 onwards took a firm Calvinist line on predestination , and the theology faculties at the universities dispensed doctrinal Calvinism to those training for the ministry ; meanwhile the laity were provided with the Genevan Bible in 1560 and a Calvinist catechism in 1563 . |
| 30 | Under her , there have been 30–35 standing-committees and just over 120 ad hocs in six and a half years . |