Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the new commitment to a national campaign for gradual emancipation , initially understood as compatible with support for Canning 's amelioration policy announced in parliament on 15 May 1823 , both Cropper and Roscoe in private correspondence adopted the equation between free labour , higher productivity and colonial prosperity . |
| 2 | The increase in agricultural production increased the living standards of everyone . |
| 3 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
| 4 | Certainly his own study of Trobriand kinship to which he gave the unnecessarily glamorous title of The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia gave the impression that that was the essence of the matter . |
| 5 | He was in this predicament by February 1615 when his letter to Castelli ( which in expanded form became the letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ) was examined by the Inquisition in Rome . |
| 6 | Members of the superfamily are present in insects , where they are involved in forming of nerve connections ; thus the association of immunoglobulin-like domains in cellular recognition preceded the immune system in evolution . |
| 7 | I fetched a bag of ice and a bowl from the kitchen , swayed back to the bar and in due course took the bowl of ice ( on a tray ) to the saloon . |
| 8 | It was this development and in particular the evidence given at the Ro-Ro inquiry which in due course prompted the council to bring the present proceedings . |
| 9 | These changes in social identity set the parameters of potential riots , but the actual incidence and seriousness of rioting often depended on the actions of individual officials and the presence of random catalysts which could prompt disturbances . |
| 10 | In the UK the boom in direct sales took the computer manufacturers by surprise . |
| 11 | ‘ Just such a re-alignment [ from interpersonal to logical functions of language ] in historical fact characterised the philosophical bias of the British empiricists as represented , for example , in the charter of the Royal Society of London which demanded ‘ a mathematical plainness of language ’ and a rejection of ‘ all amplifications , digressions and swellings of style ’ ( 1978 , p. 9 ) . |
| 12 | Those who had been formed by the politics of black nationalism , or roots radicalism , or by the various schools of classical Marxism all in different ways stressed the continuities with the past . |
| 13 | The containment of employment growth in public services exposed the more starkly the effects of the greatest phase of industrial retrenchment in post-war British economic history . |
| 14 | The same considerations of ideological convergence in broad terms and participation in public controversy encouraged the development of antislavery argument after the Napoleonic Wars in directions only lightly indicated in the early stages of the anti-slave trade argument . |
| 15 | In public Charles accepted the revised status quo with good grace ; in private he blamed Diana . |
| 16 | Her list includes Jake Chapman , Alex Hartley whose recent exhibition at Anderson O'Day attracted the acquisitive attention of Charles Saatchi David Batchelor , Pat Kaufman and Sarah Staton , whose depiction of the Union Jack in crushed glass decorated the Serpentine Gallery 's lawn last summer . |
| 17 | They lived in the Turkish quarter and in outward appearance resembled the Turks , although their religious and cultural life was very different from that of their neighbours . |
| 18 | A hospital in nearby Teplice reported the number of child patients had doubled , mostly due to respiratory problems . |
| 19 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 20 | The use of Latin in medieval Europe excluded the laity , just as the use of English in India today excludes the majority of Indians . |
| 21 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 22 | Mucosal resistance to acid was tested in anaesthetised rats fed the experimental diets for at least four weeks ( 60 rats per diet ) by duodenal infusion of HCl ( 200 to 700µmol ) 30 minutes after pretreatment with either saline or 100µmol HCl ( used as a mild irritant ) . |
| 23 | He thumbed a bell-push on his desk , and a woman in naval uniform opened the door . |
| 24 | Only after hunger and labour strikes had broken out throughout the country in early May did the government finally agree to enter into negotiations with the opposition ( under the framework of a Consultative Council ) to seek a consensus on draft reform legislation . |
| 25 | The Knesset in early November approved the 1993 state budget on its first reading by a margin of 55 to 43 votes , with one abstention . |
| 26 | The decline in overall volume encouraged the proposed merger with LIFFE . |
| 27 | Another myth preserved in magical papyri emphasised the power of the divine name and was a tale about Isis and Re , usually called " The Secret Name of Re " . |
| 28 | Journalists watching from a hotel roof in central Mogadishu said the aircraft fire was once again concentrated near the residence of Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed . |
| 29 | Croat forces riled by a Moslem offensive in central Bosnia shot the civilian drivers . |
| 30 | the head of the operation in central Bosnia said the Moslems had been subjected to blatant human rights abuses and the U N might soon have to evacuate them . |