Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 2 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 3 | In 1875 with the southern third of the country disposed of , attention was turned towards the Highlands . |
| 4 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 5 | But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called . |
| 6 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps Wright 's success is best symbolized by the construction in 1869 of the roof of St Pancras station , a 240-foot tied arch of cast iron , weighing 9,000 tons , with no intermediate structure , probably then the largest single span of its kind in the world . |
| 8 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 9 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 10 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 11 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 12 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 13 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 14 | One of Turner 's earliest known wrought-iron conservatories was the range erected in 1836–7 at the vice-regal lodge in Phoenix Park , Dublin . |
| 15 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
| 16 | He applied in vain to the Admiralty for his master 's warrant . |
| 17 | Congress delegates waited in vain for the congratulatory telegram from Moscow when the new party was formed . |
| 18 | These efforts proved to be in vain for the most part . |
| 19 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 20 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 21 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 22 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 23 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 24 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 25 | When he again came to visit he found a very different situation , with the starving Buttery spirit stretching out in vain for the wholesome food on the larder shelves . |
| 26 | While the conscious mind looks in vain for the source of the unease , neck-hairs rise in response to it , and the stomach churns and flutters . |
| 27 | I find the Epigraphes antiques short of that elusive Debussyan charm which needs pianistic half-lights , and although the other shorter pieces on this disc are thoughtfully done ( for example , La plus que lente , Le petit nègre and the Danse bohémienne ) , one looks in vain for the special insight and sensitivity that would make these performances memorable . |
| 28 | Now , little more than sixty years later , with the Empire admittedly gone and only too many ‘ works ’ closed down , but with little of eternity used up , the brow of every hill in England may be searched in vain for the sight of a plough team . |
| 29 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 30 | Throughout the cavern , men looked about at the commotion , and those in the vicinity scattered for cover , while the two scientists cast terrified glances at the huge expanse of drums and called in vain for the guards not to shoot . |