Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In fact an amalgam of these statements formed a policy statement published by the Library Association in 1978 and slightly , but significantly , revised in 1989 .
2 During the Sunday a demonstration freight train was run in the capable hands of Class 14 with TOPS number 14029 ( D9529 ) which it never carried being withdrawn from BR operating stock in 1968 after just three years in service and before TOPS renumbering took place in 1972 .
3 A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt.
4 It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control .
5 By guiding the listener through his very personal European museum , he endeavours to suggest ways in which a tangible partnership in 1992 and beyond may flourish .
6 Increases in the volume of shipping are usually accommodated for some time by existing docks and harbours before the pressure on them leads to a heavy capital investment in fresh and usually lengthy building .
7 They claim as their spiritual leader Bruce Babbitt , Arizona 's talented and common-sensical former governor who ran for president in 1988 and now works as a lawyer in Phoenix .
8 In view of this it seems appropriate to study mucosal metabolism in ileal as well as colonic mucosa in UC patients and controls in the expectation that any abnormalities that could be detected in the histologically normal ileum of ulcerative colitis patients would be unlikely to be secondary phenomena .
9 My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents .
10 The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year .
11 He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists .
12 The missing face is that of the late Cecil Spence , Mayor in 1977–78 and as principled as he was pugnacious .
13 In this sense it was aimed at the problems highlighted by the National Unemployed Workers Movement demonstration in 1932 as well as the fascist disturbances .
14 It would seem , then , that de la Broquière 's statement not only provides good evidence of the existence of the office of Mufti in 836/1433 but also suggests that the Mufti was by then recognizably the chief representative of the spiritual authority of the Seriat , the chief representative of the religious aspect of the state .
15 The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs .
16 He became an experienced weaver before moving to the warehouse as superintendent in 1973 and more recently as Manager in 1986 .
17 These amendments postponed the original 1975–6 carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon vehicle emission standards until 1980–1 , and established a relaxed standard for oxides of nitrogen ( the revision readjusted the balance between air quality and fuel economy by raising the emission limit from 0.4 to 1.0 grams per mile ) to take effect in 1981 or even later ( table 8.2 ) .
18 Then you had this next fathom , the second fathom had the leather cut in two and then have different colours at every feet as well .
19 He missed the cut in 1990 and again last year , when he also dropped to 53rd in the American money list .
20 Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can .
21 The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial .
22 The Derry man took the job as Mr Hume 's top aide in 1984 and then spent two years in Washington , working for Senator Edward Kennedy on foreign affairs issues .
23 In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako .
24 In fact , the proposals for community care received very little media attention throughout the bill 's passage through the Houses of Parliament because other parts of the bill , those which proposed a new organizational structure for the general hospital and community services , represented the most fundamental change to the NHS since its inception in 1948 and therefore deflected attention away from the community care proposals .
25 These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) .
26 I did show in the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 but even that presented a problem of prudery which I did n't experience on the continent .
27 Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later .
28 In the Senate , meanwhile , the Democrats held all the seats in the South in 1960 but only 68 per cent by 1972 .
29 One apparent reason for the delay was the Bush adminstration 's fear that to conclude a free-trade pact in mid-1992 as originally envisaged would be an electoral liability in the US presidential contest , opening Bush to attacks from protectionists that he was encouraging US companies to relocate to Mexico in search of cheap labour while unemployment continued to rise at home .
30 But Dubcek was not as popular at home where some still blamed him for not standing up to the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and therefore being responsible for a 23year military occupation by Soviet forces .
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