Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would agree with the points made by Mr and Mr in that it can be a strategic issue . |
| 2 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 3 | Since the original description of a columnarised lower esophagus by Barrett in 1950 and Allison and Johnson in 1953 it has been recognised that this abnormal lining has a marked propensity to develop serious complications . |
| 4 | The traditional view was challenged by Modigliani and Miller in 1958 They argued that the level of gearing used by the firm should not affect the cost of capital or alter the value of the firm as the risk borne by shareholders and debenture holders was dependent on how the firm used the capital not on how the firm raised the capital . |
| 5 | Nor has his influence always been entirely healthy : he resembles Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in that it has sometimes been the more morbid and pathological features of his thought that have exercised the strongest fascination on his readers . |
| 6 | When war broke out between England and France in 1294 he served with a retinue of at least nine knights in John of Brittany 's expedition to Gascony . |
| 7 | To make his tributes to earlier cities complete , before returning to Cambridge and Boston in 1932 he wrote to a correspondent in St Louis in 1930 , telling him how much his poetry owed to his childhood there . |
| 8 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 9 | After ordination in 1786 he was appointed as ‘ chaplain to the settlement ’ at New South Wales on 24 October in the same year . |
| 10 | When he retired as Secretary-General in 1960 he was given the Padma Vibhushan , the second-highest Indian honour ; in the Lok Sabha ( India 's Lower House ) Nehru paid an extremely rare tribute to a civil servant , saying that Pillai 's departure created ‘ a certain blank ’ . |
| 11 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 12 | Micro Focus , meanwhile , is offering a fully dynamic system that it claims is as polymorphic as Smalltalk in that it supports dynamic look-ups and can implement an untyped system . |
| 13 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 14 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |