Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 2 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 3 | A modest and kindly man , he took a great interest in technical education and was a governor of Owens College , Manchester , where in 1873 he endowed the Ramsbottom scholarship for young men in the locomotive department of LNWR . |
| 4 | Mr Bowles also worked in New York at theatres like SoHo Rep , where in 1984 he conducted Mandrake , a musical for which he wrote the score . |
| 5 | After they had been settled in Aquitaine the Visigoths were relatively loyal to the Roman state , although in 422 they deserted the Romans during a campaign against the Vandals in Spain . |
| 6 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 7 | By the peace of Paris , the inhabitants of ‘ Gascony beyond the Garonne ’ had become arrière-vassaux of Louis IX , although in 1224 they had refused to transfer their ultimate allegiance to the king of France . |
| 8 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 9 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 10 | The Marine Caterer for October 1911 records that " foreign labour having been introduced into Cunard , Mr Cotter , among others was put out of the Mauritania " and that in 1909 he asked the assistance of the Liverpool Trades Council to organise seagoing stewards . |
| 11 | The controversy over ordinary and honours degree pathways was to smoulder between CASS and CST , and the CASS pressure for the ending of the policy was countered consistently by CST with the argument that in science and technology it was appropriate to have two types of course , and that in general it considered students with lower abilities and attainments were more suitably educated ‘ in courses specially designed to make a different intellectual demand ’ . |
| 12 | At this point the manuscript containing her biography is cut short , but we know from other sources that a priory for her was built at Markyate in 1145 , and that in 1155 she sent gifts of embroidery to Pope Adrian IV . |
| 13 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 14 | PP : I understand that Barclays is the largest European lender to the Philippines with loans totalling over $384 million and that in 1987 you refused to sign a loan extension agreement between the Philippine government and 500 commercial creditors unless the $57 million debts of a private company , Planters Products PLC , were assumed by the government . |
| 15 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 16 | Doubts concerning Gates 's role in the affair were sufficiently strong , however , that in 1987 he had withdrawn his name after being nominated as CIA director ( having served as acting director from late 1986 because of William Casey 's incapacitation through illness ) , in view of doubts about his likely confirmation [ see p. 35187 ] . |
| 17 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 18 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 19 | On retiring from Nigeria in 1955 ( constitutional changes meant that in 1954 he reassumed the title of governor-general , dormant since 1919 ) , Macpherson was chairman of the 1956 UN visiting mission to the trust territories of the Pacific . |
| 20 | The Big Six , in their statement , say that in 1991 they spent 9% of auditing and accounting revenues — $477m — on settling and defending lawsuits , and repeat an estimate that the profession as a whole is currently facing $30bn in damages claims . |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 22 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 23 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |
| 24 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 25 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 26 | Does the Prime Minister recall that in 1986 he announced the closure of DHSS resettlement centres and gave a firm promise that they would not close until alternative accommodation was available ? |
| 27 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |
| 28 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
| 29 | Here he gained experience in locomotive building and his ability sufficiently impressed Charles F. Beyer , in charge of the locomotive department , so that in 1842 he recommended Ramsbottom as locomotive superintendent of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway , which in 1846 became part of the London and North Western , of which he was then appointed district superintendent of the north-east division . |
| 30 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |