Example sentences of "in [num] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 2 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 3 | The Bakufu 's inability to demonstrate military superiority over Choshú0 late in 1866 made it apparent to all that the Tokugawa no longer possessed the force majeure on which their power ultimately depended , and with their opponents allied with each other under the banner of imperial rule the Tokugawa 's fate was sealed . |
| 4 | The availability of CD-I , CDTV and DVI in 1991 makes it clear that this fundamental change has come to stay . |
| 5 | Only in 1941 did he first hold significant office in the Orange Order , reaching the highest rank in 1949 on his election as imperial grand master of the Grand Orange council of the world . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 7 | This committee was still to report when the Council in 1958 felt it necessary to reiterate its interest in a common market . |
| 8 | But while the canon lawyers were protected and enjoyed immunities as clerics , the civilians were open to exploitation and their numbers began to show a dramatic fall until the Emperor Frederick I intervened in 1158 to grant them certain immunities from taxes and tolls — much as the clerics already had — and their own jurisdiction . |
| 9 | Tate & Lyle 's then head of research , A.J. ‘ Chuck ’ Vlitos , recalls one of the scientists , Riaz Khan , coming to his office in 1970 to tell him that compound number 7702 was ‘ very sweet ’ . |
| 10 | Evidence from leading industrial companies to the Trade and Industry Sub Committee of the Expenditure Committee of the House of Commons in 1973 made it clear that too frequent changes in government policy and in the nature of controls and incentives covering the location of industry had led firms gradually to discount government policy when considering new investment in a way that was injurious to growth and the creation of new employment . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most important achievement of Nicholas 's reign was the codification of the laws : the publication of an authoritative digest in 1835 made it possible at least to begin to impose standard procedures on the bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Samuel Rudder 's description of Fromebridge mills in 1779 makes it clear that this was a busy and important place . |
| 13 | The Commander-in-Chief in 1939 felt it necessary to review his " troops ' ; and when he came to Driffield he obviously felt that the Occasion was so important that he spoke to the officers in one corner of the hangar and spoke to the sergeant pilots in another . |
| 14 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 15 | An OECD study in 1989 found it unlikely that MOX could compete with uranium under realistic circumstances . |
| 16 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 17 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |
| 18 | A poll of 400 of the world 's leading climatologists organized by Greenpeace has shown that almost half think it possible that the greenhouse effect might reach the point of no return in the near future , and one in seven think it probable . |
| 19 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 20 | Oxford 's experience in making a major shift of data-processing infrastructure in 1980–81 gives us some ‘ feel ’ for what would be involved . |