Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the Turks in the Red Sea in 1517 proved disastrous for the Abyssinians . |
| 2 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 3 | Edith Lathrop 's study of American rural schools in 1934 revealed many supportive agencies lending slides , stereographs and movies , often to libraries . |
| 4 | Anyone wishing to join the League in 1934 took this pledge ( later to be revised in 1965 ) : |
| 5 | The business passed to his cousin , Walter E. Tower , and the weak derivatives of the Kempe formula produced until the studio 's demise in 1934 did little to advance Kempe 's reputation . |
| 6 | It stars former Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp , who struggles in vain to inject some humour into this dreary film . |
| 7 | The men at the ramparts had often tried in vain to tempt one of the stray artillery bullocks near enough to capture it , but at long last , towards the end of the first week of September , an old horse was captured at the banqueting hall and put to death . |
| 8 | ‘ It self-seeds ’ could soon become a warning note , striking as much fear into gardeners hearts as ‘ It propagates easily from root cuttings ’ does to anyone who has tried in vain to remove some acanthus or bindweed from a flower bed . |
| 9 | The crowd , M. Grimaud stated , thought his art was fraudulent and Frederica , trying in vain to imagine any English football crowd holding any communal view about any modern artist , suddenly remembered the Picasso prints on the walls of Alexander Wedderburn 's study in Blesford Ride School . |
| 10 | Thus , the fragmented structure of The Green House , which changes in form , style , time , place and protagonists every few pages , conveys an image of Peru as a disunited nation , divided by geography , levels of development , culture , race and class , and of the world as a chaotic labyrinth in which disoriented individuals struggle in vain to find some coherence . |
| 11 | Before the offensive began he had tried in vain to impress this upon his superiors . |
| 12 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 13 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 14 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 15 | Where the town in 1440 has 13 churches , in 1840 it has 7 , all new-built , for in nineteenth century England more churches were erected than in any other century since the middle ages . |
| 16 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 17 | The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury . |
| 18 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 19 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 20 | A directory I compiled in 1971 listed one hundred non-daily Zambian periodicals , ranging from the fortnightly Zambian language government newspapers to annual journals . |
| 21 | He did not gel with Chapman in that niether xepected to do any defensive chores or chasing about . |
| 22 | Just then the engine gave one final splutter and died , and once again they were enveloped in that rushing eerie silence . |
| 23 | There 's nothing much in that to get upset about . |
| 24 | It 's just the amount I 'm asked to put in that seems unreasonable . ’ |
| 25 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 26 | Yeah I thought I might have to put another stitch in that to keep that on |
| 27 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 28 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry in 1986 estimated that absence from work cost British industry at least £5 billion . |
| 29 | This informal group was started up by an NCT member in 1986 to give some support to mums who were at work , or thinking about going back . |
| 30 | Agrokomerc is a large ‘ complex ’ organization , which in 1986 contained fourteen work organizations and thirty-four basic ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ , mainly engaged in the production of food products . |