Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was Prime Minister , relations with the United States and in particular he personal contacts with President Reagan , were far more special than they are now . |
| 2 | Blake was then posted as an MI6 officer to the British Legation in Seoul , Korea where in 1950 he and other members of the legation staff were captured by the North Koreans and held prisoner until the spring of 1953 . |
| 3 | Despite a barrage of criticism Mr Rees pressed ahead with plans for Theatr Clwyd in Mold and in 1976 it was opened by the Queen . |
| 4 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 5 | He was elected to honorary membership of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and in 1960 he was made a Commander of the British Empire . |
| 6 | Administratively the unit was originally part of the direct responsibility of the Assistant Director , Scotland but in 1974 it was transferred to the Continental Shelf and Geophysical Division of IGS . |
| 7 | In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds . |
| 8 | His early interest in international co-operation drew him to Geneva and in 1931 he joined the International Labour Office . |
| 9 | In 1976 he was made private secretary to Cardinal Hume and in 1982 he was made a Vicar General of the Archdiocese with special responsibility for priests . |
| 10 | As we have seen , Aung San had a great admiration for Nehru and in 1940 he attended the annual Congress at Ramgarh , regarded by Communists as bourgeois . |
| 11 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 12 | In 1899 he climbed Mount Lumpa in Nepal and in 1900 he joined the Allied march on Peking during the Boxer rising . |
| 13 | Thus , by the very beginning of 1947 , and well before ‘ containment ’ , the Marshall plan and the Zhdanov doctrine drew the battle lines between Russia and the US in Europe and in general it may be seen that a framework of impressions , intentions , hopes and misunderstandings was being thrown up which would support US policy towards Vietnam for the next 20 years and under whose weight it would ultimately collapse . |
| 14 | In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 . |
| 15 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 16 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 17 | The American factor and the continued strength of a spirit of religious intolerance had proved decisive in Manchester and in 1854 they were equally to be central in the failure to find a single national organisational focus for antislavery commitment . |
| 18 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 19 | Joe Meek moved to North London and in 1960 he set up his own recording studios above a leather shop , where he produced dozens of hits … |
| 20 | He became a pupil in London of John Nash [ q.v. ] , and it was presumably through Nash 's connection with south Wales that in 1801 he was employed to design a small public building in Carmarthen . |