Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employed first by Edward III , he rose under Edward the Black Prince [ q.v. ] , and became his secretary in 1375 and an executor of his will in 1376 . |
| 2 | In that if an advertisement identifies particular goods the cash price and the A.P.R. or an A.P.R. Statement must appear . |
| 3 | Therefore , formal protests were made when Hitler announced compulsory military service in 1935 and an increase in military forces , in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles , and when Italy invaded Abyssinia . |
| 4 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 5 | Mr Alan Milburn , the party 's candidate in the town , said there were 160 homelessness investigations in 1988–89 and an estimated 629 this year . |
| 6 | He obtained a BA in mathematics ( thirteenth wrangler ) in 1881 and an MA in 1885 . |
| 7 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 8 | Pregnancy puts people in very difficult situations and abortions must seem essential in some and an obvious ‘ cop out ’ in others . |
| 9 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 10 | The growth of broadcasting hours made opportunities for lunchtime news in 1972 and an extended early evening news in 1976 , with similar BBC expansion and a distinctive approach from Channel 4 . |
| 11 | However , an improvement in the economic environment is still expected in 1993 and an end to the decline in total construction work available , so bringing about an expected modest growth in our workload towards the end of 1993 . |
| 12 | With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career . |
| 13 | It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor . |
| 14 | Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 . |
| 15 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | The most prominent of these was Kevin Schuler , an All Black replacement in Wales and Ireland in 1989 , a captain in the second-tier divisional side in 1991 and an All Black in Australia this year . |
| 17 | The acceleration of a major cost reduction exercise initiated in 1991 and an active portfolio re-focusing programme helped to limit losses . |
| 18 | Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year . |
| 19 | Scott-Kilvert 's other interests included membership of the European-Atlantic Group , becoming a committee member in 1984 and an executive editor of its Journal . |
| 20 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 21 | He was made a freeman of the City of London in 1917 and an honorary liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners . |
| 22 | A member of the SPD in 1923-27 , and of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) in 1927-46 and an exile during the Nazi period , he rejoined the SPD in 1946 , and was prominent in drafting the reformist 1959 Godesberg Programme , which eventually brought the SPD to power . |
| 23 | With 125mph trains it was now possible to travel from places like Swindon , where house prices were lower , to London in less than an hour . |
| 24 | BAD : The only serious wobble of the campaign followed the appearance of Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman , on BBC television 's Election Call programme when he appeared to contradict or amend party policy no fewer than four times in less than an hour . |
| 25 | In the 1960s and '70s it was seen as whisking people from a London roof-top to one in Paris in less than an hour . |
| 26 | In less than an hour 's time they would be at St Petrock 's , and Susan would be on the platform to meet her , with dear old Sambo , the Airedale , barking his head off with glee . |
| 27 | His security status would guarantee him a priority flight on virtually any civil or military aircraft He could be out of the country in less than an hour , headed anywhere in the world . |
| 28 | Despite being reached from Belfast in less than an hour , and despite the fact that Slieve Donard towers 850m above Newcastle , one of Northern Ireland 's most popular seaside resorts , the hills are rarely visited . |
| 29 | They 'll be there in less than an hour . ’ |
| 30 | Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor . |