Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hooper continued to run the business until his death in 1869 following which his son , Charles Henry , took over . |
| 2 | Arthur Young in 1771 on his eastern tour found the dairymaids earned an average of £3 12s ( £3.60 per annum ) . |
| 3 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 4 | Since returning to England , he had searched in vain for somebody who was , like him , a true friend of Heather Mallender . |
| 5 | Walking across the Bonaparte Bridge , I looked in vain for what was marked by a giant cross on the tourist map . |
| 6 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 7 | He turned his back on Hector , and walked deliberately over to Eachuinn Odhar 's side , waiting in vain for him to look up from his fingers , nervously rubbing at his fur coverlet , and meet his son 's eye . |
| 8 | What of Isleifr 's white bear , uselessly rampant in Goslar , while Isleifr waited in vain for his summons to consecration ? |
| 9 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 10 | He had the unusual distinction of being decorated by the emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun ( class iv ) in 1891 for his work on the magnetic survey of Japan . |
| 11 | If the figures produced by the state of West Bengal , which show non-criminal lunatics making up one in eight of its prison population , are a better guide to the true situation , the picture is grim indeed . |
| 12 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 13 | NOW that Tony Bland has died , we pray that he may rest in peace , and that his parents and family may be able to grieve in private for him . |
| 14 | He may meet in private with his lawyer , but access to his family is severely restricted : he can see them for no more than one hour a month , under tight surveillance . |
| 15 | This was inspired by the first Renaissance programme in 1943 in which leading business interests in Pittsburgh took the initiative to forge a partnership with city government to address three critical problems of the time : air pollution , flooding , physical dereliction . |
| 16 | But it owes its status as a national monument to the way it has reflected from its opening in 1796 to its closure in 1924 the most dramatic and moving events in the history of modern Irish nationalism . |
| 17 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 18 | There are some interesting historical issues too , including Furtwängler conducting Wagner with various orchestras , and the Brahms Violin Concerto played by Ginette Neveu and the NDRSO/Schmidt-Isserstedt recording in 1948 after her famous 1946 Abbey Road recording , and shortly before her tragic death ( together with her brother Jean ) in a plane crash in the Azores . |
| 19 | The first attempt to analyse the basic components of communication was made by American political scientist Harold D Lasswell in 1948 in what became known as ‘ The Lasswell Formula ’ . |
| 20 | One of these elements turns up in each of one 's conscious episodes , or is of a kind such that each of one 's conscious episodes contains an instance of the kind . |
| 21 | The second element in each of one 's conscious episodes is almost always different-different from its counterparts in all other episodes . |
| 22 | Made up of four 30-minute scenes , in each of which the same people say and do the same things in the same setting , Roll On Friday , it is no surprise to learn , has been developed into a five-year television series in New Zealand and Australia . |
| 23 | Where the surveyor is in the position of administering , say , three projects in each of which a different contract is used , it can be difficult to ensure that the correct procedure is being followed . |
| 24 | The headteacher who organises a school on ‘ traditional ’ lines , the children sitting in rows of desks , following a school day which is divided into periods in each of which teachers deliver packets of information , can argue that his or her educational programme is appropriate . |
| 25 | The county was divided into four areas in each of which , with commendable foresight , a Guardians ' Committee was brought in , thereby retaining the important element of voluntary service by local residents . |
| 26 | For example , the children were shown four pictures in each of which a cloaked and hooded figure was committing a ‘ crime ’ , namely , stealing flowers out of a garden , eating a cake , breaking into a jeweller 's shop , and painting red spots on a fence . |
| 27 | The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs . |
| 28 | On the lower end of this , she constructs a small group of downward-facing cells in each of which she lays an egg . |
| 29 | These arrangements create three small zones in the brain in each of which there will be massive activity for rotation about one particular axis . |
| 30 | Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' . |