Example sentences of "in [adj] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the pipeline in Saudi was a life-saver . |
| 2 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 3 | The words ‘ or other record ’ became crucial with the growth of the video industry , when the ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ test was used with great effect to stem the tide of what became known as ‘ video nasties ’ , where viewing in private was no defence . |
| 4 | The introduction of the Resettlement Transfer Scheme in 1948 was the beginning of post-war labour mobility policies . |
| 5 | The two-man team arriving to promote the concept of a large-scale loan for livestock production in Tanzania in 1971 was a manifestation of McNamara 's bold and almost visionary objectives . |
| 6 | There 's , there 's another thing I , another thing I 'd like to mention which Chris has n't mentioned this afternoon is , that is that a lot of the pamphlets that you are handed out here , generate from 's office , copying and things like that , all very helpful , which would cost us a bomb outside , and we get them free , so you know , they , they do help the pensioner a great deal that 's why I said when she came in that 's a lady I admire very much and respect , cos she 's very good to pensioners . |
| 7 | But there are good reasons for a principled limitation to linguistic contexts : first , the relation between a lexical item and extralinguistic contexts is often crucially mediated by the purely linguistic contexts ( consider the possible relations between horse and the extra-linguistic situation in That 's a horse and There are no horses here ) ; second , any aspect of an extra-linguistic context can in principle be mirrored linguistically ; and , third , linguistic context is more easily controlled and manipulated . |
| 8 | it 's not that much of a bother , the pain is having to dig them all in that 's the trouble |
| 9 | In that was a plus sign , followed by ‘ GB , P. & L. ’ and the ‘ L ’ had been underlined twice . |
| 10 | In California , Wells Fargo 's acquisition of Crocker National in 1986 is an example of a bigger deal that was planned and executed with military precision . |
| 11 | One in three marriages in 1986 was a remarriage for one or both partners . |
| 12 | The publication of the Review Report Better management , better health ( BM , BH ) in 1986 was an occasion of great significance . |
| 13 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 14 | The parties prohibited in 1980 were the Justice Party ( although its membership had gone on to found the True Path Party — DYP ) , the Republican People 's Party , the right-wing National Movement Party and the Islamic fundamentalist National Salvation Party . |
| 15 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 16 | The main target at the height of the riots in 1802 was the gig mill , but that was because very few shearing frames had as yet been introduced . |
| 17 | Its survival depended on the generosity and good nature of the Secretary whose honorarium in 1933 was a year in arrears ! |
| 18 | The behaviour that we , as observers , see in another is the result of that individual 's perceptions of the world . |
| 19 | 75% of British men say that straightening your tie in public is a sign of nervousness . |
| 20 | Obedience in this is a test of their obedience to God in other ways too . |
| 21 | Implied in this is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair . |
| 22 | It is difficult , in any case , to sustain the conclusion that a hypothec has been created because inherent in this is the idea that the debtor owns the goods and the creditor enjoys real rights . |
| 23 | One factor in this is the number of men taking early retirement or redundancy because there is a dependant in the household ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | The most un-British element in this is the charge of corruption in the political class . |
| 25 | I do n't think any of us have ever seen it my Lord , erm the erm , the just , the , in this was a case where you will find er that er a reference was made for guidance as to the scope of the broadcasting directive |
| 26 | One crucial element in this was the resumption of centre stage by a type of music that had been in the dominant culture throughout Punk rock — black disco music . |
| 27 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 28 | His tone suggested that he did not pin much faith in this being the case . |
| 29 | " Tom the Barber " was one in 1736 , while among those revealed by the trials in 1780 were a journeyman wheelwright and a coach maker . |
| 30 | 2903 built in 1972 is the Queen 's personal saloon , converted in 1977 from MKIII FO No M1 1001 . |