Example sentences of "in [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone wishing to join the League in 1934 took this pledge ( later to be revised in 1965 ) : |
| 2 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 3 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 4 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 5 | The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury . |
| 6 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 7 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 8 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 9 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry in 1986 estimated that absence from work cost British industry at least £5 billion . |
| 10 | Agrokomerc is a large ‘ complex ’ organization , which in 1986 contained fourteen work organizations and thirty-four basic ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ , mainly engaged in the production of food products . |
| 11 | What was sold in 1986 included many pieces of a decorative nature while the approximate ninety-nine lots consigned by Mr Ortiz-Patiño are of a more consistent quality . |
| 12 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 13 | A survey of the middle reaches of the river Idle in Nottinghamshire in 1980 discovered two clumps of marginal plants and three trees over five miles of river . |
| 14 | The school built in 1872 closed many years ago and the school building and school house are now two very attractive residences . |
| 15 | The men were close personal friends and after Disraeli 's resignation in 1880 , Salisbury , as he had then become , took over the leadership of the Conservative Party , and in 1885 became Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary . |
| 16 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 17 | only when the track was quadrupled in 1879 did residential development begin in earnest in this port of London . |
| 18 | Firstly , in this constrained economic climate , it is difficult to justify an expert in Italian Renaissance cities teaching students how to use a spreadsheet . |
| 19 | Some guidance can be derived from a study of flexible learning methods where whole courses have been designed for students in this staged progressive fashion . |
| 20 | In this staged rustic wedding the arrival of the bride and groom is followed by a succession of wedding guests from the pastry chef to the village lord , the local schoolmaster and the midwife , each set of characters dancing its own entrée . |
| 21 | Knowsley , the home of national women 's champions Halewood , and Wirral appear to be the teams to watch in this mixed under-11 competition , sponsored by Littlewoods/Reebok , but Liverpool are dark horses . |
| 22 | In this controlled clinical trial , presumably it is important to test drugs on patients themselves and presumably the important feature , as you mentioned , is that they are volunteers , rather than people who are buying it , the medicines , in good faith with the expectation they 've already been tested ? |
| 23 | Leith in 1895 shipped 500,000 tons but was over 2.0m tons by 1911 . |
| 24 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 25 | Campbell in 1747 gave nominal hours of work for hatters , for example , but the men in their evidence in 1777 stated that they measured their day by output , not time . |
| 26 | The floating of the pound in 1972 symbolized this turnaround in favour of sustaining expansion regardless of the inflationary cost . |
| 27 | If we take a large firm to be one employing more than 1000 and a small one less than 100 , the latter in 1985 employed 15 times as many people in the private sector as a whole and five times as many in manufacturing . |
| 28 | A search carried out at Frome in 1786 produced several hundredweight of embezzled wool.9 More interesting was the prolonged and bitter dispute which broke out in Essex in 1757 . |
| 29 | Driving south from Lochmaddy in 1979 brought instant joy . |
| 30 | Some of them are on display in the billiards room which we converted into a little museum , but others are stored in 2,000 indexed cardboard boxes . |