Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such chance came in 1986 when coffee prices ( exports ) went up and oil prices ( imports ) went down . |
| 2 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 3 | The real explosion in calls , particularly from isolated people , happened in 1977–8 when Switchboard began to advertise in local papers and Tom Robinson put the phone number on the single sleeve of ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ . |
| 4 | Remember that day , Master Harry , when she came up to see you and the two of you hid in that there pavilion ? ’ |
| 5 | The language of Alexander 's speech was no more radical than that which Nicholas I had used in 1842 when defending the ineffectual Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 6 | COME SEE THE PARADISE is a story of epic scope , beginning in 1936 when union activist Jack McGurn ( Dennis Quaid ) flees New York and finds a temporary job as projectionist at a Japanese cinema in Los Angeles owned by the traditionally minded paterfamilias Mr Kawamura ( Sab Shimono ) . |
| 7 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 8 | The London Boroughs had last been contested in 1986 when Labour won exactly half of all the seats and a small plurality in votes cast — see Table 1 . |
| 9 | The tailings lake was begun in 1967 when production commenced at the mine . |
| 10 | The station was first created in 1960 when community leaders took specific steps to try and improve the quality of life in the community . |
| 11 | Geographers , freed from the traditional distinction between human and physical geography and with their special sensitivity towards water , earth and man , have in these both opportunity and challenge . |