Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in the United States in the 1890s he had been heavily influenced by the Populist and Democratic Parties ' assault on the Gold Standard . |
| 2 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 3 | But of course since that boom in the sixties we 've had the seventies ' economic depression , uncertainty about the future , the problem of the bomb , changed family attitudes , better contraception erm a great drop , and in fact a population a birth fall rather , of something like a third between nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty seven . |
| 4 | By the time Francis Place was serving his apprenticeship in the 1780s he and his fellows were avid consumers of leisure . |
| 5 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 6 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
| 7 | Though it has been suggested that Cynddylan may have been among Penda 's British allies at the Winwaed , there is no direct evidence for this , but when Penda attacked Oswiu in the mid-650s he is said to have been supported by British kings ( HB ch. 64 ) , principal among whom was Cadafael ap Cynfedw , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) . |
| 8 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 9 | The cost of such an item in eleventh-century England is not known , but in Normandy in the 1040s it could be £7 . |
| 10 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 11 | But in the political language of the right in the 1980s it is outside in the sense of being cast as alien , normally via the stigmata of race or socialism , the locus of criminal delinquency , the site of disorder . |
| 12 | At some point in the mid-660s he was forbidden by his father to go to Rome with Benedict Biscop , who was later to found the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow . |
| 13 | In Cambridge in the 1930s he ran a gallery of modern art with Julian Trevelyan , edited Shakespeare 's 1593 Quarto of Venus and Adonis , with Jacob Bronowski [ q.v. ] founded and wrote for the magazine Experiment , and designed sets and costumes for theatrical productions . |
| 14 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 15 | Cicely Courtneidge was put into a soldier 's costume and sent off to war in pursuit of her simple-minded husband in the clumsy Me and Marlborough ( 1935 ) . |
| 16 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 17 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 18 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 19 | After all , if it did not occur to Bohr , Heisenberg and Schrödinger in the twenties it can not be trivially self-evident . |
| 20 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 21 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | As a teenager growing up in Liverpool in the Fifties it still makes me feel it 's a bit naff to spend too much time on your appearance . |
| 23 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 24 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 25 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 26 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
| 27 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 28 | In one case you are a pupil in the second you are a friend . |
| 29 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 30 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |