Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes . |
| 2 | His impassioned Contrasts ( 1836 ) is a manifesto , both visual and verbal , for the Gothic , for it contrasts a town in 1440 with the same town in 1840 ( Fig. 30 ) , a comparison in which 1840 fails in every respect . |
| 3 | The Tables remove the need to list ‘ common subdivisions ’ in each of the many places where they might be applied ; indeed , one list suffices for applications with respect to many different subjects . |
| 4 | A given species or even genus tends to specialize in that at the same time in the same area , the same plant species is exploited , and this takes a great toll of water-dispersed seeds such as rubber . |
| 5 | Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 . |
| 6 | French prisoners also protested in July 1990 at overcrowding and specifically at Mitterrand 's decision on July 27 , 1990 , to release Anis Naccache ( as well as four others connected with his case ) , who had in 1982 been sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder in 1980 of the former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar ] [ see pp. 30631-32 ; for links with Lebanese hostage issue see p. 36632 ; for August 1991 murder of Bachtiar see p. 38409 ] . |
| 7 | THE sports and leisure company founded in 1980 by the former tennis international , David Lloyd , is planning a March flotation expected to capitalise it at more than £50 million . |
| 8 | A wrestling stadium was opened in 1933 by a former amateur wrestler and publican to show ‘ free style ’ wrestling from the USA with its commercial flamboyance and parodies of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ sportsmanship . |
| 9 | Yet in many pastoral societies , and in the modern West and Japan , they are widely used , in some of the former instances becoming virtual panaceas . ) |
| 10 | We were entertained most generously both in people 's homes and in some of the many splendid restaurants . |
| 11 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
| 12 | Tolkien and Lewis , in some of the same spirit , decided to make a party issue out of the election to the Oxford Chair of Poetry in 1938 . |
| 13 | ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising . |
| 14 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 15 | To continue in 1991 with the same blatant colonialism and imperialism that has been conducted since the days when Christopher Columbus invaded the Americas , the imperialist powers have combined their increasingly sophisticated and deadly military machinery with slick psychological warfare . |
| 16 | ( There were in addition 222,000 ethnic Germans who came to Germany in 1991 from the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . ) |
| 17 | In additional to the many sporting activities , there are more leisurely pursuits such as pony trekking , which is an increasingly popular and peaceful way of exploring the countryside . |
| 18 | These aspirations were shared by the Beveridge committee on social insurance which was set up in 1941 at the same time as the Uthwatt committee and the Scott committee . |
| 19 | Nearly all of the former and two in three of the latter went straight into jobs after they were made redundant . |
| 20 | This fieldwork supplements data collected in 1982-83 by the same investigators , during research entitled ‘ The Social Organisation of Childbearing in Rural North India ’ ( also funded by ESRC ) . |
| 21 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 22 | The political role of the coin was manifested in the way that the widespread use of coinage enabled a regime or state to impose its authority in all of the many monetary transactions which take place in any society . |
| 23 | Primates use tools in many of the same ways as other mammals — although they probably use them better . |
| 24 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 25 | At the rear of the church was an old girls school erected in 1818 by a former rector , Archdeacon William Henry Edward Bentinck . |
| 26 | This means that seven times out of ten the provision of clarification or information results in more of the same or requests for more . |
| 27 | There were substantial differences between men and women , with four in ten of the former giving this as their principal reason and only 16 per cent claiming they did not want a permanent job . |
| 28 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 29 | Feast on an endless range of local and international dishes , then dance the night away in one of the many pulsating discos . |
| 30 | During the evening , you can unwind in one of the many bars and restaurants ; there is even a disco ! |