Example sentences of "in [adj] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Daily Bread was released in 1934 and immediately Otis Ferguson contrasted ‘ Hollywood 's aversion to social content ’ to ‘ Mr Vidor 's preoccupation with it ’ . |
| 2 | But for the next two decades , as the volume of junk outstanding rose to $15 billion in 1980 and then $201 billion in 1989 , the default rate stayed low . |
| 3 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 4 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 5 | The West European market for computer products and services will grow by about 4.3% in 1993 and 6.8% in 1994 , according to Bruno Lamborghini , president of the Eurobit industry group , which presented the study to a conference in Brussels : market growth was 14.2% in 1989 and 8.9% in 1990 , slowing to 4.3% in 1991 and just 3% last year , having topped 15% for most of the 1980s . |
| 6 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 7 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 8 | Tam David-West , Petroleum Resources Minister in 1984-86 and subsequently Mines , Power and Steel Minister until 1988 , was granted bail on Sept. 17 after being charged with " corruptly enriching " in 1986 a United States-based oil company . |
| 9 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 10 | Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] , |
| 11 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 12 | The work was carried out in 1843 and again Salvin was architect . |
| 13 | Excessive editing of videotape was not to be encouraged in 1961 and so Newman worked to the formula of having live action done in the electronic studio , and the Visual Effects , plus other control critical sequences , done on film — a small , but important development in British science fiction programme making . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |