Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King 's Royal Rifles won in 1909 while the Somerset Light Infantry and Lancaster Regiment also reached finals . |
| 2 | Mandatory reselection was won in 1979 and a new method for electing the leader of the party was adopted in 1981 which gave trade unions and constituency parties a major say , but there has still to be a change in the way in which the party manifesto is drawn up . |
| 3 | This was not a competitive body ; its aims were to promote race walking in general and the Bradford Whit Walk in particular . |
| 4 | His library of three thousand volumes was dispersed in 1675 and the whereabouts of some 350 are known . |
| 5 | This automation took place in two stages , the first occurring in 1971 and the second , the focus of Buchanan and Boddy 's study , ten years later . |
| 6 | However , an improvement in the economic environment is still expected in 1993 and an end to the decline in total construction work available , so bringing about an expected modest growth in our workload towards the end of 1993 . |
| 7 | It was claimed in 1803 that no less than 90 out of 165 canal acts obtained since 1758 had been concerned primarily with coal carriage , while a further 47 had been linked to iron or non-ferrous metal works or mines . |
| 8 | After all , Khruschev had claimed in 1962 that the present generation in the Soviet Union would live in full communism . |
| 9 | James Worthy reported in 1950 that the policy of the American Sears Roebuck company was to have as wide a span of control as possible between stores managers and their subordinates , the merchandising managers . |
| 10 | The Jewish agent reported in 1937 that a secret group known as the ‘ tough squad ’ , under the direction of Gore and Ridout , operated with members of the BUF at night in the East End . |
| 11 | The Birmingham Assay Office reported in 1966 that the oldest part of the arrow , the main tube and point , could be c1600 , while the flights and flight end tube are probably c1700 . |
| 12 | The present porch was added in 1777 and the small tower in 1827 . |
| 13 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 14 | The ( English ) priory of the medieval order was dissolved in 1540 and the archive consists mainly of records of post-1831 date , when the Venerable Order of St John was founded . |
| 15 | Kolingba 's Military Committee for National Recovery was dissolved in 1985 and a predominantly civilian Council of Ministers was appointed as part of a gradual process of returning the country to civilian rule . |
| 16 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 17 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 18 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 19 | The Bulawayo station was remodelled in 1913 and the building , a long two-storey range , had outer and inner canopies supported on fine ironwork . |
| 20 | St. Giles Church — The 12th Century Church of St. Giles was rebuilt in 1616 after the original tower collapsed virtually destroying it . |
| 21 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 22 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 23 | It was the first ‘ invisible radiation ’ to be discovered , when William Herschel found in 1800 that a thermometer would register heat beyond the red end of the Sun 's visible spectrum . |
| 24 | Leslie found in 1958 that the Government papers and radio were greatly distrusted : newspapers which were anti-government were avidly sought after but not always easy to obtain . |
| 25 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 26 | The procedure by way of judicial review was simplified in 1977 and the number of applications rose considerably . |
| 27 | Four other cases in table III were excluded from our analyses because they fell outside the period covered : cases 1–3 occurred before complete registration data were available , and case 14 occurred in 1991 after the decision had been taken to make 1990 the final year of the analysis . |
| 28 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 29 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 30 | More than 70 per cent of murder cases were solved in 1988 and the highest rates of detection were recorded among ‘ offences against the state ’ , including the Northern Ireland Emergency Provisions Act and firearms legislation . |