Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern Bengal 's broad engine works at Saidpur feature two superb examples of inter-war Stephenson 0–6–0 tender heavy goods locos , slightly modified in West Bengal in 1936 I was reliably assured by the works ' superintendent that both of the black-painted engines were recently in steam . |
| 2 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 3 | A speed-table differs from a speed hump in that it is designed as a ramp up to a raised plateau with a descending ramp on the other side . |
| 4 | STEVEN has followed the rise of the drug in the North East since it became part of the club scene in 1989 he says its popularity has soared since 1991 . |
| 5 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 6 | The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory . |
| 7 | As I was walking down Sackville Street one fine spring day in 1985 I noticed a sign in the window of a bookshop , now no more , advertising BBC books for sale . |
| 8 | Baxter 's old congregation in Kidderminster was typical of many former Puritan congregations in that it became the scene of a Unitarian split during the 18th . |
| 9 | With the advent of punk music in 1977 I transferred my energies and enthusiasm from the military and spent a lot of time dressing up and putting Vaseline in my hair , much to the annoyance of my house master , a quiet Benedictine who wrote on my term report , ‘ Christian seems to have developed a nihilistic attraction for punk rock , which is strange for somebody who avoids violence even on the rugby field . |
| 10 | The feedback model ( i.e. TRACE II ) is closer to the weak interaction type in that it is primarily data driven , rather than hypothesis driven , but it does allow some top-down filling in of gaps , and some correction of errors in the input data . |
| 11 | You know we had we had field postcards in all them days . |
| 12 | After the leak of Cabinet minutes on child benefit in 1976 he decided it was time , once more , to have a secrecy law under whose rubric juries were likely to convict . |
| 13 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 14 | Writing in Artificial Intelligence magazine in 1985 he said the AI community in NASA and beyond were arrogant in their refusal to examine ‘ anything more than a couple of centuries old . |
| 15 | Since qualifying as a Medau teachers in 1968 she has taught regular classes for adults , children and the mentally handicapped . |
| 16 | At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly . |
| 17 | It is like expert power in that it can only be exercised if others recognise and accept it . |
| 18 | Well theirs is , but it 's bigger because they 've got the two rooms , like one big room split in half you see |
| 19 | Hypnosis is identical with group formation in that it isolates the relation between the leader and follower , but between two people , not a large number , as in a crowd with a leader . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the legislation governing Council Tax is almost the same as that for collecting Community Charge in that it does not allow Council Tax to be collected along with rent . |
| 21 | The video is already a record breaker in that it was produced in only three weeks as opposed to the normal six to eight weeks . |
| 22 | In a letter to town magistrates in 1892 he asked if his body could be stuffed and placed in a glass cabinet next to the Pease Monument when he died . |
| 23 | The balance sheet provides some explanation of this negative cash position in that it shows debtors of £5.8m , or 74% of Bloomsbury 's turnover of £7.8m at 31st December 1991 . |
| 24 | And if he does and then I see him and that he is n't doing it any more , at least I 've got job satisfaction in that he has n't . |
| 25 | When he filled in a South African immigration questionnaire in 1947 he wrote ‘ Human ’ in the space marked ‘ Race ’ . |
| 26 | The use of Form N111 , even if it has become ‘ obsolete , ’ was in fact more appropriate than the use of Form N79 , although it suffers from the same defect as the High Court form in that it does not draw the attention of the contemnor to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 27 | The Guardian distribution also has the advantage over the Abbey National share allocation in that it is tax-free and net of all osts . |
| 28 | Brownlow was felt by many in the group to be typical of government sponsored community economic development initiatives in that it was unrepresentative of local people in so far as local people felt excluded from the processes that were happening , even though substantial resources were being made available through the initiative . |
| 29 | it 's a sign problem in that it 's not doing the look up properly . |
| 30 | Since becoming Deputy Chief in 1967 I had been concerned with requests , mostly from foreign governments , to provide instruction in the practice of aircraft accident investigation . |