Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement whose new star he became in 1934 soon showed the public how greatly it had gained strength . |
| 2 | The adoption of a co-operative strategy in 1934 rapidly brought the PCF back into the mainstream of French party politics , capturing as it did the popular imagination of the French nation . |
| 3 | Knox , like Luther before him , recoiled in horror from low-born violence ; the godly commonalty to whom he had appealed in 1558 now became the ‘ rascal multitude ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart . |
| 5 | He also made further photographic excursions into Tibet , and in 1986 briefly joined the Sipa agency in Peking . |
| 6 | The Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development report published in 1986 amply demonstrates the mounting concern which now exists throughout the British scientific community and those more directly involved in various aspects of the decision making processes relating to the future funding of scientific research in the UK . |
| 7 | The mandate for prayers of thanks for the capture of Caen in 1346 also ordered the publication of the king 's itinerary ‘ for the comfort and consolation … of the entire English people ’ . |
| 8 | Resentment and resistance followed , notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace ; and although the Crown was able to ride that storm , it agreed in 1540 partially to replace the Statute of Uses with a milder act , the Statute of Wills , which in effect allowed landowners to avoid feudal incidents on two-thirds of their lands . |
| 9 | Most worms in this superfamily inhabit the lungs or the blood vessels adjacent to the lungs . |
| 10 | The abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747 substantially increased the influence of the Government over the Scottish voters by effectively restricting judicial patronage to the Crown . |
| 11 | The Constitution adopted in 1972 effectively turned the country into a one-party state under the Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( RDPC ) . |
| 12 | Using the information in 2 above calculate the owners equity and draw up the balance sheet of Transom Trading as at 31 December 1991 . |
| 13 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 14 | The Real Lives episode in 1985 severely damaged the BBC 's reputation for independence when its Board of Governors ( at the especial urging of its then Deputy Chairman , Lord Rees-Mogg ) cravenly banned the scheduled programme after Mrs Thatcher had condemned it , unseen , as likely to encourage support for terrorists . |
| 15 | The discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929 completely changed the discussion about its origin . |
| 16 | The Chethams ran out of heirs and in 1819 so did the Cottons , with the death of William Cotton . |
| 17 | A comprehensive survey of feudal and allodial tenures ( in the Bordelais only ) was made , and it is significant that Edward 's demands for military service from Gascon vassals in 1294 closely followed the lists of vassals in the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 . |
| 18 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |
| 19 | The construction of the dam in 1963 also eradicated the seasonal flows of the river . |
| 20 | The return of the Conservative Party to power in 1979 simply accelerated the collapse of regional policies ; they were now seen as unhelpful both in theoretical as well as pragmatic terms . |
| 21 | Hoteliers say that while three out of four secretive romantics still register as Smith , one in six now use the name Major . |
| 22 | The slaughter of around 30,000 peasants in the aftermath of a revolt in El Salvador in 1932 virtually eliminated the indigenous Salvadoreans . |
| 23 | In 1903 he launched a paper , West African Mail ( later the African Mail ) , as a vehicle for his campaign , and in 1904 also founded the Congo Reform Association with ( Sir ) Roger Casement [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 25 | A declaration by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz on a visit to Qatar in 1984 probably reflected the atmosphere of GCC deliberations at the time . |
| 26 | The participation of America in the war in 1917 naturally involved the provision of Ambulance trains for United States troops . |
| 27 | A well-known example from earlier in this century of a Law Lord speaking on a political matter in the House of Lords arose when Lord Carson in 1921 strongly attacked the proposal to establish an Irish Free State . |
| 28 | The Edict of Pîtres in 864 strongly suggests the combination of political and fiscal reasons behind Charles 's determination to keep control of markets : others , presumably local magnates , had been setting them up on their own initiative , but the king now decreed that such markets were to be banned unless they secured royal authorisation , and royal agents were told to keep lists of those so authorised . |
| 29 | Yet his persistent efforts to woo the profession in 1912 only emphasized the distance between the two discourses on the heredity/ environment issue . |
| 30 | In 1840 Little founded the Orthopaedic Institution in Bloomsbury , an infirmary for the cure of club foot and other distortions , and for the study of orthopaedics . |