Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years . |
| 2 | The last FSD examinations take place in 1993 and study and revision support for students has been maintained . |
| 3 | The supporting leg can go on spinning on full pointe with that knee bent , as the working one is held in arabesque or attitude and finally sit on the floor . |
| 4 | Added to the Ma'badong there were now also spontaneous explosions of Pa'gellu dancers , young girls dressed in green and gold and the most fashionable jewellery of the time — hollow Taiwanese watches , without their works , which some enterprising pirate had no doubt made a killing on . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 6 | The democracy movement had been brutally suppressed in 1989 but idealism and popular opposition bubbled up again and found allies in the younger generation of Communist leaders that followed the death of Deng Xiaoping . |
| 7 | Modern language surveys took place in 1983–5 and design and technology tests are being developed . |