Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements .
2 He became a director of the East India Company in 1669 and its governor in 1672–4 and again in 1683 .
3 Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft .
4 Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft .
5 My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents .
6 There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s .
7 The training would also become increasingly complex , with landings from midget submarines late in 1943 and early in 1944 , but in October 1942 the best that could be produced were canoes to get the swimmer inshore and a cumbersome rubberised canvas suit of the type used by charioteers riding human torpedoes .
8 In " The Stent Book " in 1796 and again in 1801 there is a resolution suppressing distilling because the nation is threatened by famine .
9 The success of the Chinese communists late in 1948 and early in 1949 , together with the effects of the European crisis , accentuated concern over the vulnerability of Japan .
10 For Dewey democracy was to be understood not only in political but also in social and economic terms ; as a way of life and as a moral ideal and not simply as a form of government .
11 I think you should , allowances should be at at least support you in that and also from those allowances other resources that provide for research etcetera for the members .
12 Conversely , in South Tyneside , they had candidates in 13 wards in 1986 but only in nine this time .
13 There have since been a series of proposals to re-establish some form of compulsory treatment in the community from the Mental Health Act Commission ( in 1986 and again in 1988 ) , the Royal College of Psychiatrists ( 1987 ) , and the British Medical Association ( 1989 ) .
14 In 1986 and again in 1989 a Heriot 's pupil gained the distinction of coming first in Scotland in the Higher Grade examination .
15 And we saw in 1.2 and again in 5.4 that the strongest sceptical arguments attack understanding as well as knowledge .
16 A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 .
17 The other object of special note is the so-called Blaze Star , T Coronæ , which is usually of about magnitude 10 , but which flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 .
18 This landed wealth of Egypt was , later in the fifth century , exploited by rentier Iranian landowners who screwed all they could out of the local peasants : their demands are preserved in Aramaic on leather documents bought in Egypt in 1943–4 and now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford .
19 Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory .
20 This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence .
21 Then in 1980 and again in 1983 ten-minute rule bills on this subject obtained second readings which approved the principle ; as is normally the case with such bills they made no further progress due to lack of parliamentary time .
22 On two occasions , once in 1980 and once in 1982 , the DTI failed to act when it was told that Barlow Clowes was apparently dealing in investments without a licence .
23 The probe was applied from the front in 32 and laterally in 17 cases .
24 John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports .
25 However , his flamboyant style led to his departure , first in 1867 and again in 1873 , over arguments about his salary and alcohol being sold in the clubs .
26 If Lyrical Ballads was as unpopular as legend would have it , why would Wordsworth have added a second volume in 1800 , and why would both volumes be reprinted in 1802 and again in 1805 ?
27 , Thomas ( fl. 1292–1342 ) , was a working mason at the first building of St Stephen 's chapel in Westminster Palace in 1292–3 and again in 1294 , His name indicates his birth in Witney , Oxfordshire , a manor of the bishop of Winchester , and this was significant for his career .
28 Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems .
29 But there is some evidence of his association with liberals at Cambridge which must be mentioned briefly at this point , since it seems rather unlikely that he would have visited France in 1790 and again in 1791–2 if he had no sympathy with what was going on there .
30 Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s .
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