Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 2 | Anyone wishing to join the League in 1934 took this pledge ( later to be revised in 1965 ) : |
| 3 | It stars former Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp , who struggles in vain to inject some humour into this dreary film . |
| 4 | Thus , the fragmented structure of The Green House , which changes in form , style , time , place and protagonists every few pages , conveys an image of Peru as a disunited nation , divided by geography , levels of development , culture , race and class , and of the world as a chaotic labyrinth in which disoriented individuals struggle in vain to find some coherence . |
| 5 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages . |
| 8 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 9 | The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Just then the engine gave one final splutter and died , and once again they were enveloped in that rushing eerie silence . |
| 13 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 14 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 15 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry in 1986 estimated that absence from work cost British industry at least £5 billion . |
| 16 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In part to complement the broad-based approach towards co-ordination developed within the CATS , the Inner City Initiative was launched in 1986 to increase Private-sector investment in small urban areas that were subject to high unemployment rates . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Members of the Skerne Park Community Action Group are to receive £2,000 from the TSB Foundation a charitable group set up in 1986 to encourage good causes . |
| 21 | On July 12 the Chamber of Accounts of the Alpes-Maritimes département had issued an interim verdict holding Médecin responsible for irregular payments of over F13,000,000 ( approximately US$2,400,000 ) in public funds to a Paris finance house during an exercise in 1986 to restructure Nice city council 's debts ; he had been given until Sept. 17 to explain himself , ahead of a final ruling due in November . |
| 22 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 23 | In particular , the ‘ Mind Britain 's Business , campaign against the League of Nations policy to boycott fascist Italy after her invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 cut little ice . |
| 24 | The ISE has three tiers , the main market ( Official List ) of over 2000 domestic companies with a market value of approximately £500 billion ; the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) established in 1980 to allow smaller companies that might find the costs of full listing prohibitive the chance to raise capital , with over 450 companies valued at around £9 billion ; and around seventy companies on the Third market with capitalisation of £O.6 billion . |
| 25 | In addition legislation enacted in 1980 to give local authority tenants a ‘ right to buy ’ has also made extensive inroads into the system of public housing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In Britain the Midland Railway Company announced its intention in 1872 to admit third-class passengers to all of its trains at a penny-a-mile fare and in 1874 to abolish second class and reduce all first-class fares to second-class rates . |
| 28 | The school built in 1872 closed many years ago and the school building and school house are now two very attractive residences . |
| 29 | They knew the names of certain French dishes and gave orders to Jarveys in high pitched provincial voices , which pierced through their skin-tight accents . |
| 30 | On the other hand , sections from inflamed oesophageal mucosa contain little EGF in the capillary endothelium resulting in few EGF positive papillae . |