Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 2 | The idea of the state as societas corresponds to civil association in that it provides a vision of the state as a non-purposive , rule-based institution . |
| 3 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 4 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 5 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 6 | In the terms established earlier this , like the Monadology itself , seems an unsatisfactory account of consciousness in that it ignores the unity principle , for what that is worth . |
| 7 | It differed from the budget proposed by the President in that it included an additional $4,400 million for domestic spending on education , health and social service programmes at the expense of space and scientific programmes . |
| 8 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 9 | After Rizzio 's murder in 1566 it became the residence of Mary , Queen of Scots . |
| 10 | Before regaining his seat in 1811 he viewed the Peninsular war theatre . |
| 11 | After losing his Auckland seat in 1975 he moved to Christchurch and , after a series of manual jobs , trained as a psychiatric nurse . |
| 12 | Well , this morning it 's our great pleasure to welcome three visitors to the session , one of whom I 'm not entirely sure is welcome because I understand that in fact he 's in some way a slight opposition in that he runs his own training course . |
| 13 | Jerry also earned three full International caps for Eire ( qualifying on his father 's nationality ) , but once the Palace began to lose their way his laconic and delicate style became on occasions at least , something of a luxury our side could ill-afford , and when he became a free agent in 1985 he chose to move over to Chelsea . |
| 14 | ‘ Despite a disabling stroke in 1970 he continued painting and , surprisingly , his work acquired an increased vigour ; he adopted a more varied palette and made use of more vivid colours . |
| 15 | Following a second stroke in 1892 he retired , and he died 15 June 1893 in Torquay . |
| 16 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 17 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 18 | In an interview in 1975 he declared that during his Persepolis party , " the whole world , from the United Nations to every capital , paid tribute to Cyrus and his kingdom … |
| 19 | Well I 'm prepared to say th th that I that I think that we do do good practice in that we do sit down with the children and help them , each individual along with the with our joint statements . |
| 20 | However , it is unlike a prudential or moral imperative in that it tells me only how to prepare for a choice , not how to choose . |
| 21 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 22 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 23 | This insulting behaviour had the desired effect in that it raised tempers in Paris , where all political groups , together with virtually the entire press , broke out in a clamour of hostility to Prussia , at the same time castigating their own government for refusing to take a strong line . |
| 24 | In a timed swim across Honolulu Harbour in 1911 he covered 100 yards in 55.4 seconds , shattering the existing record by 4.6 seconds . |
| 25 | In an article in The English Review in 1913 she argued that the legislation had been carried by hysterical stories circulated by ‘ neuropaths and prudes ’ about the entrapment of white women . |
| 26 | It also severely restricts judicial review in that it does not allow any review for abuse of power , an essential tool in the control of unfettered discretion . |
| 27 | Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult ( a ) Extension of the Cayley-Hamilton theorem In 1.17 we showed that a matrix A satisfies its own characteristic equation , i.e. unc irrespective of the nature of the eigenvalues . |
| 28 | With the appearance of his novel Vainglory in 1915 he styled himself Ronald Firbank for the first time , signalling the emergence of the mature writer . |
| 29 | Bartlett ( 1958 ) regarded thinking as a form of skill in that it has the characteristics of organising information . |
| 30 | Following his marriage in 1892 he left England on his third and final East African tour . |