Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Consequently , it is forecast that in 1992 our inflation rate will be below even the German average , which at the moment is 3.5 per cent .
2 This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church .
3 Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward .
4 Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke .
5 It is said that in 1789 he was introduced to George III by a wealthy cousin , also called John Bridge , who shared the monarch 's interest in farming .
6 They had never ever seen that in all their lives before .
7 His book about these people ( Alone with the Hairy Ainu , 1893 ) , followed by one on Korea ( Corea , or Cho-sen , the Land of the Morning Calm , 1895 ) , were well received and in 1896 he undertook a scientific expedition to Tibet , where he was captured and tortured .
8 By 1902 its leaders were apparently on reasonably good terms with Wilson , but the breach was never completely healed and in 1903 it merged with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers taking 750 members with it , mostly , it seems , seamen on river craft .
9 It may be thought that in 8 we have an equation which indicates ( wrongly ) that — at is a semantic constituent :
10 A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward .
11 In 1873 the first Welsh Black Cattle Society was formed but in 1883/4 it was divided into north and south breed societies to improve the two Welsh types .
12 But cabinet pressure left him almost isolated and in 1761 he resigned .
13 The thesis which should have brought about a major revolution in the study of religion , society and culture has instead been ignored , repudiated and contradicted ; the promised revolution has totally aborted and in general nothing remains in modern applied psychoanalysis of Totem and Taboo save an emasculated , diluted and vitiated remnant .
14 His life-long passion for his native city was further demonstrated when in 1860 he donated the then huge sum of £150,000 towards the restoration of St. Patrick 's Cathedral .
15 They were divorced and in 1931 he married Irene Ruth Marden , daughter of Oliver Hawkshaw , gentleman of independent means .
16 Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm .
17 Work on a medical ward and as a health visitor followed until in 1988 he became a Neighbourhood Nurse Manager for Wandsworth Health Authority .
18 Her feelings about it were discussed and in particular her sense of failure and bitterness towards him .
19 On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days .
20 I just hope that they are n't completely lost and in particular I 'd just mention the because it 's being increasingly used and will be as the bypass comes in into use because access will be restricted to the , the erm roundabout .
21 The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times .
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