Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession . |
| 2 | Mr. Flack 's own interest began in 1934 when he was in court for the libel case brought against the MGM film company who had made a film about Rasputin . |
| 3 | It was edited by the young Jomo Kenyatta , who halted publication in 1934 when he went to England . |
| 4 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 5 | The last heard of Gert was in 1943 when he tried and failed to join the RA F. Bloomsbury House urged him to settle for the Pioneers . |
| 6 | Crowe 's long-standing ambition to secure the lease of the royal ironworks in the Forest of Dean was finally rewarded in 1635 when he and his partners obtained the lease after the existing lessees had fallen foul of the royal forest jurisdiction . |
| 7 | Margaret 's career with Salas started in 1948 when she left a senior secretarial job with Cadbury 's Scottish office to take responsibility for all typing staff at head office . |
| 8 | He began his business career in 1948 when he became chief metallurgist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell . |
| 9 | It became part of the Midland and later the London Midland and Scottish railways until nationalisation in 1948 when it was operated by British Railways . |
| 10 | Well I , I can understand er his , his point of view in that firstly he 's saying quite correctly , that this tragedy was no one person 's fault . |
| 11 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 12 | Erm how many twos in that well we can think of that as two times two over two times five . |
| 13 | . Well in that today he says er when I seen the syringe coming out I just , I 'll not be in the room if he 's getting injected . |
| 14 | up in that where you are are n't they ? |
| 15 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 16 | The United States cases are in one sense less threatening to the policy of the Convention , in that typically they do involve the actual delivery of the relevant document rather than some notional equivalent such as publication at the courthouse door . |
| 17 | Of course such rose-tinted retrospection served a dual purpose in that politically it said : ‘ Who needs AIDS , crack , violence , pollution and other symptoms of the modern age when you can transport yourself back to Fonzville , North Dakota , with its tidy suburban gardens , shining Chevys , fresh country air , soda bar , drive-in and upright American values ? ’ |
| 18 | Economic rationale in that how they 're the most productive and the most efficient , mm . |
| 19 | Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment . |
| 20 | In that too I saw him as an obvious heir to the boys of the old Paris suburbs ’ ( p. 143 ) . |
| 21 | ( ii ) Suppose that my private visual experience is strikingly atypical in that systematically I see green where others see red . |
| 22 | Well in that apparently it 's very good ! |
| 23 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 24 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 25 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
| 26 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 27 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 28 | Wimbledon fans will remember Castle 's fine court one performance in 1986 when he led Matts Wilander two sets to one before going down in five . |
| 29 | Mr Mark Rees , of Tunbridge Wells , Kent , made news in 1986 when he took a case to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 30 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |