Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term of service was reduced by his successors and in 1762 it was made voluntary , but the great bulk of the officer corps continued to be staffed by hereditary noblemen . |
| 2 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 3 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 4 | I I think you were all here listening to the erm pensioners before you were they were talking about their ideas which were also our ideas in our er report on the designated ownership of , of the pension funds and in particular they had a couple of ideas which you may have heard about having the word pension in the in the names , just technical points , er pension in the names of er of the funds and and people who were er giving advice on behalf of them . |
| 5 | It disappeared for centuries but in 1725 it was rediscovered in Ballinabeck graveyard in the parish of Scarva and is now in the National Museum in Dublin . |
| 6 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 7 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 8 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 9 | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music , a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time . |
| 10 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 11 | A member is obliged to comply with the Rules and in particular he is obliged to comply with rule 2.12(1) under which : |
| 12 | In 1344 , Edward III swore to emulate King Arthur and founded a Round Table for the knights and in 1348 he established the Order of the Garter , a brotherhood of twenty-six knights . |
| 13 | Married women were always treated as a class apart for insurance purposes and in 1932 they found their health insurance benefits cut because of the high risk they represented , even though no other group with excessive claims ( for example miners ) was singled out for similar treatment . |
| 14 | May be she did not do as well in the major championships as in previous years but in 1990 she still managed to win one Australian , get in to the final of the French and the US Opens , and the semi final of Wimbledon . |
| 15 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 16 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 17 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 18 | But here , too , there were soon difficulties and in 1943 he resigned to become scientific adviser to the United States 8th Army Air Force in Great Britain . |
| 19 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 20 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 21 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | In 257 cases of violence , 370 attackers were identified : in 190 cases they were Inkatha supporters , in 84 they were police and in 13 they were ANC supporters . |
| 24 | He received nine honorary degrees and in 1914 he was appointed honorary GCVO . |
| 25 | Do n't expect a sales person to do the job of analysing your requirements because in general it is just too difficult a task . |
| 26 | In 1975 the A level pass rate was two girls to every seven boys and in 1985 it was two to every five — undoubtedly an improvement , but still far from approximate equity . |
| 27 | After the war I edited these letters and in 1955 I sent a typescript off to the publisher Jonathan Cape , out of the blue . |
| 28 | ‘ Ithell Colquhoun thus spoke for future generations of women artists when in 1943 she stressed the need to escape from gender barriers . |
| 29 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |