Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [coord] [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 | 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. |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 10 | The missing face is that of the late Cecil Spence , Mayor in 1977–78 and as principled as he was pugnacious . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He became an experienced weaver before moving to the warehouse as superintendent in 1973 and more recently as Manager in 1986 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He missed the cut in 1990 and again last year , when he also dropped to 53rd in the American money list . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the Senate , meanwhile , the Democrats held all the seats in the South in 1960 but only 68 per cent by 1972 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Gardeners from the National Trust at Petworth Park , Sussex , have used Capability Brown 's original designs to plant a four-acre plot for which Brown had sketched out a plan in 1750 but never carried out . |
| 26 | The programme included Baroque pieces by Purcell , Torelli , Bach and Handel , and began with Professor Raymond Warren 's Ceremonial Fanfare for trumpet and organ , which was first performed at the University 's Centenary Degree Congregation in the Colston Hall in 1976 and subsequently , in a revised form , at the installation of the present Chancellor , Sir Jeremy Morse , in 1989 . |
| 27 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 28 | Yet normally , the ‘ angry ’ emotions have their origin in deeper and often more significant upsets and disappointments . |
| 29 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 30 | The Welsh revolt of 1294 and the Scottish campaign in 1296 and subsequently absorbed another £140,000 , bringing the total for those years to around £750,000 . |