Example sentences of "and in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 2 | Despite a couple of fine LPs , among them ‘ The Most Of ’ , Edwards clicked more as a writer than a singer , and in 1966 he gave two songs to the Spencer Davis Group , ‘ Keep On Running ’ and ‘ Somebody Help Me ’ , both of which hit Number One . |
| 3 | If the DEA was unable to organise rapid growth in conjunction with a stable balance of payments , then one of the objectives had to give , and in 1966 it was the growth target which was abandoned . |
| 4 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 5 | William had been involved with Clydesdales since his boyhood and in 1897 he bought two good mature stallions and a fine brood mare with which he established Dunure Mains as a stud . |
| 6 | She died in 1894 , and in 1897 he married Bertha Ison . |
| 7 | She died in 1893 and in 1897 he married Ida , daughter of Judge Meadows White . |
| 8 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |
| 9 | In 1845 , however , he recognized the privileges of the German barons in a two-volume collection of local laws , and in 1849 he subjected the Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , to twelve days in the Peter and Paul Fortress and a personal interrogation for inveighing against the German hegemony in privately circulated " Letters from Riga " . |
| 10 | In 1846 he sat on one of the tsar 's many secret committees on peasant affairs , in 1848 he chaired another , and in 1849 he succeeded his uncle , the Grand Duke Mikhail , as head of the empire 's military schools . |
| 11 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 12 | Leo Tolstoy asked the question , and in 1898 his remarkable book with that title gave his reply . |
| 13 | He evidently resented the fact that the name ‘ diesel ’ had come to be applied to virtually every type of oil engine , hot-bulb ( ignition ) as well as compression-ignition , and in 1923 he asked the Institution to declare that henceforth the word ‘ diesel ’ should only be used to describe oil engines operating on the compression-ignition principle , hot-bulb engines to be known as ‘ akroyds ’ . |
| 14 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 15 | Events stopped in 20 , and in nine there was a reduction in their severity and frequency . |
| 16 | In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP . |
| 17 | It now appears evidence was fabricated in their case , too , and in 1991 they , too , were released . |
| 18 | Hence the European Parliament 's Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens ' Rights proposed a comprehensive report on codification in May 1989 , and in 1991 its chairman Graf von Stauffenberg again stressed ‘ the pressing need for proper codification and simplification , and hence greater transparency , of Community law ’ . |
| 19 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 20 | The administration was always poor and in 1991 it became chaotic . |
| 21 | There were a number of Jacobite plots throughout the 1690s , as various attempts were made to help James II recapture his Crown , including a plot to assassinate William III in 1696 , and in 1715 there was a rebellion in Scotland and the north of England on behalf of his son , James Francis Stuart ( the Old Pretender ) . |
| 22 | In 1286 he joined Edward in Gascony , after an embassy to the papal curia , and in 1289–90 he journeyed once again to the curia to discuss , inter alia , the granting of a papal dispensation for the marriage of Edward of Carnarvon , Edward 's son , to Margaret of Scotland , the Maid of Norway [ q.v. ] , and Edward 's projected crusade . |
| 23 | In 1966 , at the age of 28 , he was made a partner in the Glasgow office , and in 1974 he became joint senior partner of both Glasgow and Edinburgh with John Kirkpatrick ( later chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee ) . |
| 24 | By 1925 it was down to 7 per cent and in 1971 it stood at around 4.1 per cent . |
| 25 | He did this by undertaking a tour giving literary lectures and talks on elocution and in 1909 he published " A Literary Tour of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland . " |
| 26 | The business eventually declined , and in 1886 he returned to private practice , in partnership with his brother B. E. R. Newlands . |
| 27 | They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all . |
| 28 | Mr Hills , 55 on Thursday , was awarded a commendation in 1973 for showing initiative and bravery when dealing with a dangerous psychiatric patient , and in 1979 he won the police long service and good conduct medal . |
| 29 | In fact he enjoyed the commercial side of PR , especially after joining Alloa Brewery , and in 1979 he joined Grant Forrest , the advertising agency , as an account manager on its fledgling PR wing with just two clients , Barratt Scotland and Schlumberger ( Barratt is still with him ) . |
| 30 | The country is a federation of nineteen states , and in 1979 there were five separate national political parties each with a degree of power , effectively controlling at least two states . |