Example sentences of "in [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 2 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 3 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 4 | The effect of a satiating meal on the serum and urinary concentrations of procolipase propeptide ( ala-Pro-Gly-Pro-Arg , APGPR ) immunoreactivity , as measured by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) specific for free APGPR , has been studied in normal and morbidly obese human subjects . |
| 5 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 6 | Our Daily Bread was released in 1934 and immediately Otis Ferguson contrasted ‘ Hollywood 's aversion to social content ’ to ‘ Mr Vidor 's preoccupation with it ’ . |
| 7 | The shop , established in 1934 and now run by the founder 's grandsons , is undoubtedly one of the most important delicatessens in the country , vast in its range of goods and uncompromising in its quality . |
| 8 | The cottage was transported ( creeper and all ! ) to Australia in 1934 and now stands in Fitzroy Gardens , Melbourne . |
| 9 | He became a director of the East India Company in 1669 and its governor in 1672–4 and again in 1683 . |
| 10 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 11 | Before the IUD could do its work conception must already have taken place , egg and sperm having fused in a fallopian , and the multiplying cells travelled down to the womb to seek a place of anchorage , a home which the alpha-shaped loop by its very presence denied them , causing the minute beginnings of an embryo to swim in vain and ultimately be shed . |
| 12 | In small-scale and closely knit communities , where self-respect is very closely tied up with the esteem in which one is held by one 's fellows , any sanction of this sort designed to erode it is likely to be particularly effective . |
| 13 | forest policies , securely ensconced in an effective and enforceable legislative infrastructure , which were inaugurated in 1891 and subsequently reinforced by later statutes ( Table 8.1 ) , were essential controls on the transposition of natural forests into managed forests . |
| 14 | The standing of this school , established in 1543 and before that a Cistercian Abby , was considerable . |
| 15 | Still on the Loire is the impressive Abbey of Fontevrault , founded in 1098 and originally covering a tremendous area with four convents and supporting buildings of which a number remain . |
| 16 | The Home Secretary again referred the matter to the Court of Appeal who considered it in private and then rejected it . |
| 17 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend has been an effective and persuasive advocate in private and now in the House of the interests of his constituents . |
| 19 | There had been military expeditions to establish English authority in Wales in 1277 and to maintain it there in 1282–3 and again in 1287 , and these were costly enough in their way , but they paled in comparison with the activity and demands of the 1290s . |
| 20 | I found the erm structured thought patterns and the span of conception is very interesting in the fact that you do things in threes and obviously that gives a certain logic net to everything that you do and the way that you prepare your presentation . |
| 21 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 22 | Our only non-biological scientist was Elizabeth Stewart ( Mrs Fyfe ) who returned to Aberdeen to marry in 1943 and later emigrated to Halifax , Nova Scotia where her husband became Professor of Anatomy . |
| 23 | The training would also become increasingly complex , with landings from midget submarines late in 1943 and early in 1944 , but in October 1942 the best that could be produced were canoes to get the swimmer inshore and a cumbersome rubberised canvas suit of the type used by charioteers riding human torpedoes . |
| 24 | In " The Stent Book " in 1796 and again in 1801 there is a resolution suppressing distilling because the nation is threatened by famine . |
| 25 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 26 | The success of the Chinese communists late in 1948 and early in 1949 , together with the effects of the European crisis , accentuated concern over the vulnerability of Japan . |
| 27 | In fact , the proposals for community care received very little media attention throughout the bill 's passage through the Houses of Parliament because other parts of the bill , those which proposed a new organizational structure for the general hospital and community services , represented the most fundamental change to the NHS since its inception in 1948 and therefore deflected attention away from the community care proposals . |
| 28 | The issue was raised again by Denmark after the war , first in 1948 and then successfully by the premier , Hans Hedtoft , at a meeting of the Nordic Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1951 . |
| 29 | True , there have been revolutions in the name of socialism and communism , but these have never been in highly industrialised but in agricultural and industrially backward countries like Russia , China and Cuba . |
| 30 | Not sorted out , decided and convinced but curious and open in strange and often wondrous times . |