Example sentences of "and in [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an architect he was sent from Durham in 1364 to Coldingham priory , a Scottish dependency , and in 1367–74 had charge of building the great kitchen of Durham priory , with its remarkable vault of Spanish inspiration . |
| 2 | Not only did the King fail to punish him , he granted him additional revenues , and in 1703 elevated him to Earl of Stair . |
| 3 | When the University of Newcastle became independent he was its first public orator from 1963 to 1966 , and in 1966 became dean of medicine . |
| 4 | It sold millions of copies and in 1966 won a special Hugo Award as the best science-fiction series ever . |
| 5 | America , already tied to markets in Britain , France and Scandinavia , saw the rising tide of German manufacture as a threat to its own burgeoning industries , and in 1897 raised a tariff barrier against German coal , steel , iron and textiles . |
| 6 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |
| 7 | So Abdullah Muhammad was a policeman in Tazarbu , and in 1978–9 used his spare time to build a mosque in Wadi district , for which the landowning lineage paid him . |
| 8 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 9 | He was elected FRS in 1894 , and in 1898 received a honorary MA from the University of Adelaide . |
| 10 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 11 | But already the attraction of entertainment was strong ; Steen spent most of his limited pocket-money on tickets for the music hall and in 1923 launched himself as Mario , the Melodic Whistler . |
| 12 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 13 | He was educated at Westminster School and in 1866 emigrated with his parents to Australia , where they settled in Rockhampton on the Queensland coast . |
| 14 | He studied briefly in the London stained-glass studios of Clayton & Bell , and in 1866 set up his own business in stained glass and church decoration . |
| 15 | Undeterred , she completed the 1988 Ostar in Quixote ( 4th in class ) and in 1989 took part in the Round Britain Race again with Mike Pocock 's daughter , Jenny . |
| 16 | Poprischin was first played by the same actor Tim McConnell ( who also wrote the screenplay ) in the Dublin Theatre Festival 1987 where he won the Best Actor Harvey Award , and in 1989 won the off-Broadway OBIE . |
| 17 | The balance of trade has been negative since 1982 , and in 1989 hit a record £24 billion |
| 18 | But the provinces reneged on the promise ( prompting a spate of civil law suits ) and in 1991 made a silent compact to leave all matters of compensation to Ottawa . |
| 19 | The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further . |
| 20 | Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq . |
| 21 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |
| 22 | She then worked freelance for several local authorities and in 1991 joined the PSSRU as part of a team engaged on a programme of research in mental health commissioned by the Department of Health . |
| 23 | However , Leech took over the site and in 1991 won permission for 44 more homes , some of them two-storey houses . |
| 24 | Its sponsorship programmes have been developed from commercial precedents and in 1991 included a major league Australian football team , several other football organisations , two national basketball teams , some mass participation sports , and even a drama group . |
| 25 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 26 | The Republic of Malta became an independent member of the Commonwealth in 1964 , and in 1974 adopted a republican Constitution . |
| 27 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 28 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 29 | He loved sport ( from which his crippled father was of course precluded ) , and in 1909 shocked the Court by flying with Orville Wright . |
| 30 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |