Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myers left and Talbot said : ‘ It is my understanding , Admiral , that in your capacity as officer commanding the naval forces in the Eastern Mediterranean you have the power to overrule the President 's instructions . ’ |
| 2 | In the affluent 1960s he chaired a committee on which I sat and participated in the agreeable task of giving away large sums of private money to deserving research projects . |
| 3 | In the heady 19605 it was possible to suggest that : |
| 4 | In the early 1920s she published a series of three guide-lines for the removal of what she termed as ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ literature from local libraries . |
| 5 | In the early 1920s she campaigned for widows ' pensions . |
| 6 | In the early 1920s he put forward proposals for a short-wave ‘ Empire Beam ’ system , which was accepted . |
| 7 | In the early 80's it was almost new romantic . |
| 8 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 9 | By 1990 this ratio had fallen to 39.7% , but in the early 1990s it has risen again , to some 43% in 1992/93 . |
| 10 | In the early nineteen-sixties they liked their policy centralised ( and linked to manpower projections ) and their institutions big . |
| 11 | In the early 1840s he published pamphlets for the Anti-Corn Law League , and in 1846 he joined the staff of The Economist . |
| 12 | In the early thirties I should think . |
| 13 | In the early thirties he was employed as an editor for Herbert Wilcox at British and Dominion Films at Elstree . |
| 14 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 15 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 16 | My trawl of invisibility in the Art Index has confirmed that until women became identified with feminism in the early 1970s they were as neutralised as their practice . |
| 17 | In the early 1970s she met Derek Bryceson , director of Tanzania 's national parks . |
| 18 | By the end of the 1960s , the firm had established a reputation in the electronics and motor industries , and in the early 1970s it expanded into oil , petroleum and chemicals , and established a foothold in the merchant banking sector . |
| 19 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |
| 20 | But in the early 1970s it was in danger of total destruction . |
| 21 | In the early 1970s he was editor of the Provisional republican newspaper in the north , Republican News . |
| 22 | In the early 1970s he introduced a type of tournament competition called knockdown , which , since it allows full power strikes to the body , he believed was the only true test of a karateka 's fighting ability . |
| 23 | In the early 1970s he became Manager Hops and continued in this role for the remainder of his career at Park Royal . |
| 24 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 25 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 26 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 27 | In the early 1960s she played a part in saving Brownsea Island from development : the island is now owned by the National Trust , and the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation manages part as a nature reserve Helen Brotherton is the current Chairman of the latter organisation and , as well as serving on the National Trust 's Council , Appointments Panel and Conservation Panel , she was Chairman of the Wessex Regional Committee for a number of years . |
| 28 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 29 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 30 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |