Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other nations that use drift-nets include the US , Italy , and Spain , while Denmark in the 1970s had a large drift-net fishery for salmon in the North Atlantic . |
| 2 | Even less than with the designation of the polytechnics was the CNAA in the 1970s confronting a policy-driven situation . |
| 3 | The Council was in the 1970s recruiting a large number of relatively young staff , who saw the job , in the words of one of them , as ‘ a creative experience ’ , engaging in curriculum development , relating to senior academics on the Council 's committees and working with peers in the polytechnics and colleges , generating ideas , disseminating good practice , advising on the planning and monitoring of courses , and in general developing an identity for the CNAA which combined the validation role with access to professional networks , research and advice on evaluation and other processes contingent on the validation relationship . |
| 4 | Some have questioned whether small villages can be afforded , and most economic evidence in the 1970s suggested a negative answer . |
| 5 | One Suffolk farm servant paid five shillings every week in the 1900s to help a sister keep their eighty-year-old mother . |
| 6 | The evangelical antislavery imperative in the 1820s formed a conjunction with a reaction against West Indian treatment of nonconformist missionaries and powerful leadership in antislavery activism by major figures of dissent : Jabez Bunting and Richard Watson of the Wesleyans , Joseph Ivimey of the Baptists , the Congregationalists Henry Waymouth and John Angell James . |
| 7 | Peregrines , whose numbers have recovered in recent years after poisoning by pesticides used in the 1960s caused a slump in the population , are given special protection by the Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 8 | Alongside the occasional opportunity classes in the 1960s came a little finding for extra staff . |
| 9 | In the 1960s came a frail-looking but gifted midfielder , Gianni Rivera , and a stocky manager , Nereo Rocco , inventor of il catenaccio ( ‘ the bolt ’ , an ultra-defensive game ) . |
| 10 | The construction of the High Dam just above Aswan in the 1960s created a vast reservoir to regulate the flow of the Nile , and to lift forever from Egypt the threat of flood or drought . |
| 11 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 12 | It was a town of about 2000 people which in the 1750s served a wide inland area , with a deep-sea fishing fleet and a reasonable coastal trade , considering that it lacked a harbour . |
| 13 | Leicester in the 1760s had a daily crossing of coaches on runs from Manchester or Leeds to London ; by 1815 more than thirty left the town each day for London and other major population centres in the Midlands and north . |
| 14 | Chapman saw the danger signs in the efficient running a such national teams as Austria and Holland . |
| 15 | It is recognized , also , that investment may be influenced by interest rates , with fluctuations in the latter having a direct effect on the cost of borrowed funds and therefore on the profitability of potential investments . |
| 16 | As the headline suggests , it will no longer be sufficient in the 1990s to mount a defence . |
| 17 | The latter in the mid-1830s became a partner of his father . |
| 18 | : ‘ The word ‘ process ’ in the one case , and the word ‘ object ’ in the other produce a false grammatical attitude to the word . ’ |
| 19 | In the first attack a Bolivian guard was killed and another injured and six US Marines sustained slight injuries . |
| 20 | Although love between human beings has in the first place a physical basis , in that two people are physically attracted to each other , ultimately it is not physical but mental . |
| 21 | The feudal bond established in the first place a special relationship between the lord and a man whom we should call a cavalry officer , whom they called a vassal . |
| 22 | Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it . |
| 23 | While the report may not completely resolve the question for your Lordships , it provides in the first place a very useful summary of the state of the law in 1966 . |
| 24 | It was in the first place a great age in the growth of military education . |
| 25 | In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones . |
| 26 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 27 | In the first appeal a local authority applied to commit the contemnor to prison for contempt of court following outbursts of violence during wardship proceedings in which they were both parties . |
| 28 | A common factor in the two studies concerning assessment by non-medically qualified staff is that the social workers in the first study and the nurses in the second had a special interest in dealing with attempted suicide patients . |
| 29 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |
| 30 | Although John Leland in the 1530s described a town apparently prosperous from the condition of its buildings , these may well have been erected before the decline set in . |