Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weavers and combers might at most times make common cause against clothiers , but when the import of ready-combed Irish wool was the issue at Tiverton in 1749 they came to blows . |
| 2 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 3 | The traditional view was challenged by Modigliani and Miller in 1958 They argued that the level of gearing used by the firm should not affect the cost of capital or alter the value of the firm as the risk borne by shareholders and debenture holders was dependent on how the firm used the capital not on how the firm raised the capital . |
| 4 | When Lorne and our mother , Lydia , visited the Toraja in 1971 they found that the last great king , Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , had been dead for three years , and was still lying in state awaiting his final star-launch . |
| 5 | Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire . |
| 6 | Although Japanese forces entered French Indo-China in 1940 they left the administration and armed forces intact . |