Example sentences of "in [adj] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 .
2 He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists .
3 The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial .
4 Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients .
5 His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade .
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