Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British attempt in 1986 failed to make any significant impression on the route , despite much larger resources , emphasising the scale of the French achievement . |
| 2 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 3 | One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults . |
| 4 | The initial survey of all people with learning difficulties in the County in 1982–3 had revealed many social and leisure needs , not least a need to maintain and extend the provision of playschemes in the summer holidays . |
| 5 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 6 | The illness of Sancho in 1211 probably accounted for his reconciliation with Rome and with the bishop of Porto and his acceptance of stringent conditions which seriously limited the powers of his successor , Alfonso II , for the Cortes in 1211 had declared all secular law subject to canon law and had freed the clergy from most taxes . |
| 7 | It is significant that the public debate on policies and content of education mounted in Zambia in 1976 has aroused much interest in other African countries . |
| 8 | Certain test writers argue that the blank substituted for the deleted word should correspond to the length of the missing word but in many cloze tests all the blanks are of uniform length . |
| 9 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 10 | William Empson , a lifelong and dedicated atheist , returned from the Far East in 1952 expecting to find little more demolition-work on religion needing to be done , at least among the lettered , and was horrified to discover that the devout spirit of T. S. Eliot , in his absence , had spawned a host of converts in the critical world . |
| 11 | Pupils would need to continue with maths , physics , chemistry and biology in sixth forms to keep all science options open to 18+ . |
| 12 | Excavations nearby in 1961 failed to locate any structures . |
| 13 | But if , as seems likely , the Chancellor 's commitment to take more than £6 billion out of the economy in 1994-5 and £10 billion in 1995-6 has done enough to reassure the foreign-exchange markets , the risk of a big misjudgment of market sentiment will diminish over the next few days . |
| 14 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 15 | Most reformers in 1900 wished to achieve both , though they differed upon definitions of desirable behaviour . |
| 16 | In some districts it was due to the death of an older generation who were , often for reasons of religious belief , philanthropically disposed and whose successors lacked this combination of religious commitment ( evangelicalism in particular had lost much of its mid-nineteenth century hold ) and social responsibility . |
| 17 | The USA in particular had urged such a cut to boost economic growth [ see pp. 37977-78 ; 38170 ; 38314 ; 38321 ] . |
| 18 | For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women . |
| 19 | Boys in particular seem to have more control over curricula with teachers making efforts to select materials that will interest them ( Shaw 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Silver and Wortman ( 1980 ) , in their review of research on how people cope with a range of such major losses , conclude that two resources in particular seem to have some generalisable benefit . |
| 21 | Aerial survey in particular has revealed some of the intricacies of the site 's internal morphology . |
| 22 | Edward Thompson in particular has stressed this effect , writing of Methodism 's late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century leaders : They weakened the poor from within by adding … the active ingredient of submission ; and they fostered within the Methodist Church those elements most suited to make up the psychic component of the work-discipline of which the manufacturers stood most in need . |
| 23 | Higher professionals in particular continue to enjoy many advantages over manual workers , and , for that matter , routine non-manual workers . |
| 24 | A further Committee in 1846 did get some results . |
| 25 | True , all peasants still shared a common interest in the overthrow of the remaining traces of feudalism — including the tsarist regime itself — and the SR Party founded in 1901 came to express this common ground . |
| 26 | The Exxon oil company has claimed that the massive spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989 has had little lasting effect on the wildlife of Alaska 's Prince William Sound . |
| 27 | A similar study in 1974 failed to find any two year old fish breeding . |
| 28 | A reduction in suitable nest sites has been suggested as a possible cause , and a breeding survey of cliff-nesting Herring Gulls and Rock Pipits conducted in 1965 tends to confirm this idea . |
| 29 | The appearance of MPG Note 3 in 1988 sought to strengthen this approach , pushing resolution of the inherent conflict between opencasting and the environment in favour of this most destructive form of development . |
| 30 | The World Bank 's World Debt Tables , published on Dec. 19 , estimated that by the end of the year lenders would in 1990 have committed some $9,000 million in net new lending to borrowers — the amount by which total lending and investment aid exceeded the total paid to lenders in capital repayments , interest and profits . |