Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the West Country clothiers ' advocate William Temple wanted in 1739 to point to the advantages of the weavers , he stressed that it was their family earnings which lifted them above the condition of the farm worker . |
| 2 | The costs were provided in the previous year with the exception of a £1.1 million write down in the value of the Dumfries building charged in 1992/93 . |
| 3 | A resident at the C.I.C. hut could easily do a spot of rock-climbing , nip into Fort William to indulge in some leisurely shopping for tartan gonks and still be back in time for a sing-song round the primus stove . |
| 4 | I drank mint tea in the carpet shops ( and found Stefan Grappelli , Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop 's order book ) . |
| 5 | Thee Black Prince died before King Edward died in 1377 , so he was succeeded by his grandson , Richard II , who was only ten years old , He was overshadowed by his three royal uncles , Edmund , Duke of York ; Thomas , Duke of Gloucester , and John , Duke of Lancaster . |
| 6 | The impressive Villa Sant' Andrea stands in beautiful terraced gardens beside Mazzaro Bay , about 100 yards from the cable-car to Taormina . |
| 7 | A linear or supercoiled DNA containing P A2b and P A3 promoters was incubated at 37°C with σ A -RNA polymerase , in the absence ( P A2b ) or presence ( P A3 ) of protein p4 , and with the NTP combinations indicated in each lane . |
| 8 | The United States soon followed and , by Act of Congress , the Smithsonian Institution became in 1879 the US National Museum . |
| 9 | A huge row in the Modena camp resulted in half the team — including drivers Phil Hill and Giancarlo Baghetti — walking out and forming ATS ( Automobili Turismo e Sport ) . |
| 10 | There , in the yard below , was Miss Hardbroom wreathed in thick purple smoke . |
| 11 | Greyabbey 's Dickie Curran came in one second behind in third with European championship contender John McAllister from Strabane coming in a well deserved fourth . |
| 12 | ‘ A key factor to the defeat of Raybestos Manhattan lay in convincing workers of the dangers to their lives from their working conditions . |
| 13 | Without doubt , Anne Bancroft emerged as your shining example of growing old gracefully , with Judi Dench following in second place and Diana Rigg a close third . |
| 14 | Appointed KCB when his governorship of Vancouver Island ended in 1863 , he retired from his British Columbia post in the following year , citing the state of his health . |
| 15 | Older people were more religious than the young , women more than men , and above all , the rural areas more than the urban workers , as S. G. Strumilin discovered in 1922 ( Table 1 ) . |
| 16 | A few years earlier , Alessandro Conti wrote in similar vein of Fra Angelico 's frescoes at San Marco in Florence , saying that they had been permanently disfigured . |
| 17 | Work was never completed and when the wealthy founder of the Port Sunlight-based Lever Brothers died in 1925 the project remained unfinished . |
| 18 | Work was never completed and when the wealthy founder of the Port Sunlight-based Lever Brothers died in 1925 , the project remained unfinished . |
| 19 | Clifford Geertz follows with a luminous sketch of anthropological psychology , while Richard Gregory gallops in third with his now familiar but lively inferences from illusions . |
| 20 | All 50 of Marot 's were set by Certon ( Paris , 1546 ) though only 13 of them have survived in a transcription for voice and lute by Guillaume Morlaye published in 1555 . |
| 21 | His side produced another spirited performance but slipped away in the final 15 minutes as Stockport striker Andy Preece fired in two goals to complete his hat-trick and take Darlington 's promotions companions of last season a step closer to Second Division football . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're in good time , ’ the witch-like Miss Martindale admitted in grudging tones , as she opened the door . |
| 23 | The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act passed in 1985 mandated the federal government to balance the budget by 1991 and allowed for the sequestration of funds if President and Congress failed to reach agreement . |
| 24 | The Picasso Museum opened in 1963 and during the artist 's lifetime the collection rapidly expanded to around 2,000 works , largely donated by the artist . |
| 25 | Likewise there was little ‘ church like ’ about Whitefield 's Tabernacle on the Tottenham Court Road to which C. S. Horne came in 1903 while the Wesleyan mission at Ancoats , Manchester , had an eclectic design consisting of Tudor half-timbers plus towers . |
| 26 | David Walsh looks in vain for encouraging signs |
| 27 | J. B. S. Haldane argued in 1938 , ‘ We may , I think , if the existing differences in fertility of social class continue , expect a slow decline of perhaps 1 or 2 per cent per generation in the mean intelligence quotient of the country ’ . |
| 28 | Doddridge Church , originally Castle Hill Meeting built in 1695 , was mostly rebuilt . |
| 29 | David Marshall lives in central London , where he devotes his time to writing short stories for magazines and drama for radio . |
| 30 | When Edward Allies retired in 1835 , Thomas Goldney joined . |