Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 2 | They were in their time incomparably more famous and influential than Marx , whose Capital was described in 1875 by an anonymous German expert as the work of a self-educated man ignorant of the progress of the past twenty-five years . |
| 3 | In fact , the reader will seek in vain for an explanation of just how the column-inches in 2 million articles in local American newspapers over 12 years are converted into the 10 ‘ megatrends ’ . |
| 4 | One looks in vain for an alternative vision of the State 's role in relation to the arts . |
| 5 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 6 | Charles crossed the River Elbe in 789 with an army of Franks , Frisians and Saxons . |
| 7 | We plan to replace this machine when funds become available some time in 1993/94 with an upgraded machine . |
| 8 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 9 | In line with DES directives on admissions , the number of students admitted to teacher-training courses fell from 850 in 1971 to an estimated 240 in 1982–3 . |
| 10 | The UDA was formed in 1971 as an umbrella group of Loyalists . |
| 11 | The nature of the old system also illustrates the way ‘ notches ’ or ‘ traps ’ are introduced into the pay system in that as an employee moved from , say , £74 to £75 a week , NICs went from 2 to 7 per cent of all income . |
| 12 | If so , the law will be the same in their case as in that of an individual , and the statement will be libellous . |
| 13 | He considered that ‘ Consent is the act of man , in his character of a rational and intelligent being , not in that of an animal . |
| 14 | Caesium-137 for instance can stay in the body of a child for 30-50 days and in that of an adult for 70-100 days . |
| 15 | ( Silcott remained in prison , to complete a separate life sentence imposed in 1986 for an unrelated murder committed in 1984 . ) |
| 16 | Although Iraq had paid some $1,300 million ( or roughly one-half ) of the money for the ships , their delivery had been blocked by the imposition in 1986 of an Italian embargo on lethal weaponry to Iran and Iraq . |
| 17 | Lawrence , 41 , who had been elected to the legislature in 1986 after an outstanding academic career , was the first woman ever to hold the office of Australian state premier . |
| 18 | He said that the woman , who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1986 after an attempted arson attack , would probably not be fit to stand trial because of her mental condition . |
| 19 | What had been perceived in 1935 as an implicit fascist disease had by 1939 reached epidemic proportions . |
| 20 | In the first case , the purchaser had bought a £17,500 house in 1980 with an Abbey National Building Society mortgage . |
| 21 | The first signs that neutrinos might oscillate came in 1980 from an experiment by Fred Reines and colleagues at the University of California , Irvine . |
| 22 | Palmer , who has n't won since last season 's Asian Classic in Bangkok , came home in 32 for an impressive 68 , while Haeggman had five birdies and an eagle in his 67 . |
| 23 | This was discovered in 1925 by an Austrian physicist , Wolfgang Pauli-for which he received the Nobel prize in 1945 . |
| 24 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 25 | John Mowlem , founder of the well-known London contractors , was born in 1788 in an ancient cottage at what is now Court Hill . |
| 26 | After two years of anxiety , one of the finest seams of steam coal in the world was struck in the Maendy pit , Cwmparc , and the Ocean Collieries Company was set up in 1867 with an authorized capital of £240,000 . |
| 27 | The Cottage Illuminated tram was built in 1933 on an old tram to resemble Anne Hathaway 's Cottage . |
| 28 | A review of current practice in the assessment of low attainers in mathematics was carried out in 1983–4 as an adjunct to the main project in its first year . |
| 29 | It was an order — a rare thing from Therese — and Flavia could not refuse it short of gross discourtesy in public to an older woman and a friend . |
| 30 | She was born in 1895 to an army major and his wife and was granddaughter to a field marshal . |