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

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1 Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry .
2 This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board .
3 The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits .
4 He died in 594 or perhaps a year later .
5 For example some mothers feel very embarrassed about reprimanding their child or dealing with a tantrum in public and so the child rapidly learns that a tantrum could produce sweets if enough fuss is created ( McAuley and McAuley 1977 ) .
6 Fishman acknowledges the skill involved in this and indeed the necessity for someone to do it ; but she sees it as something women are coerced into .
7 This was abolished in 1972 and consequently the prosecution must now convince a more representative sample of the population that a publisher ought to be punished : a sample , moreover , which has a constitutional right to acquit irrespective of the letter of the law .
8 The aim is to stabilise CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 , with a tax equivalent to $10 on a barrel of oil , beginning with an increase of $3 in 1993 and then a further $1 a year until 2000 .
9 Among injecting drug users , the peak in HIV incidence took place in 1985 and so the number of AIDS cases is still climbing .
10 He missed only two fixtures in 1990–91 and obviously a grand future lies ahead of him .
11 A trade conflict with Spain — allies of France — arose in 1734 and soon the old animosity between France and England came to the surface .
12 First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony .
13 Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases .
14 Because of the raging personal computer price war , the European market started to expand strongly in 1992 and now the Japanese market , despite its general economic sluggishness , is also expanding .
15 So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later .
16 A breed society was founded in 1908 and today the Salers also has breed societies in Canada and the USA .
17 The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer 's work .
18 Built in 1811 and now the Borough Council 's Leathercraft Museum .
19 Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people .
20 Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series .
21 Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument .
22 That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast .
23 It appears to be aimed squarely at what the Americans would call a ‘ resort diver ’ , rather than someone like me who dives several times a week in more or less the same areas .
24 Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower .
25 It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ?
26 The universe existed and would continue to exist forever in more or less the same state as it is today .
27 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
28 There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground .
29 On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor .
30 Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man .
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