Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] and [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1562 and again in 1566 the Privy Council urged Elizabeth in vain to marry and secure the succession . |
| 2 | The South African environment department has refused permission to fishermen in Struisbaai to catch and barbecue a whale belonging to a species recognised as endangered . |
| 3 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 4 | Meiji Six Society ) , a group of enlightened scholars formed in 1874 to discuss and disseminate new ideas , were in the forefront of this debate . |
| 5 | The infamous Malleus Maleficarum — a document produced by two Dominican monks who were appointed by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 to investigate and stamp out witchcraft — states that ‘ all witchcraft comes from carnal lust , which is in women insatiable ’ . |
| 6 | Madrid-based Sistelcom is a telecommunications consortium belonging to the Central Hispano Group , which was set up in 1991 to design and operate advanced telecommunications services within the framework marked out by the government 's liberalisation of the telecommunications market . |
| 7 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 8 | The pilot Technical and Vocational Education Initiative was introduced to England and Wales in 1983 and to Scotland in 1984 to explore and test new approaches to the education of 14-18 year-olds . |
| 9 | The third major change is the advent of self-validation of courses for a number of polytechnics and colleges , which like all the other ‘ public sector ’ institutions , have until now had their degree courses validated and degrees awarded by the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) , a national body established in 1964 to develop and regulate courses and qualifications in public sector higher education . |
| 10 | The Canadian offshoot of de Havilland was formed in Toronto in 1928 to assemble and service their imported British products . |
| 11 | FIDOR was formed in 1953 to promote and develop the UK market for fibre building boards . |
| 12 | The company , founded in 1974 to create and publish practical reference books for adults , now sells its titles in over 80 countries and in 37 languages and almost 90 per cent of the 560 titles originated over the company 's history are still in print . |
| 13 | The Community Interpreter Project was set up in 1983 to develop and pilot a practical model which would enable people to communicate effectively within the context of the main public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 14 | Dr Asvat subsequently reported his examination of Stompie to the Soweto Crisis Committee , set up in 1988 to monitor and try to control the activities of Mrs Mandela , director of the ANC 's Social Welfare Department . |
| 15 | Current credit law stems most directly from the 1971 report of the Crowther Committee , appointed in 1968 to consider and make recommendations about the law and practice relating to consumer credit . |
| 16 | Cherwell Scientific Publishing Limited was founded in 1990 to distribute and publish carefully selected software which reaches this standard . |