Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MEMBERS of Montgomeryshire District Council 's environmental health committee will meet in private tomorrow to consider an officer 's report on alleged trespass on council land adjacent to River Cain , Llanfyllin . |
| 2 | MONTGOMERY councillors will be meeting in private tomorrow to consider a report on unauthorised deposit of controlled waste at the Severn Farm Industrial Estate , Welshpool . |
| 3 | In 1945 , the Miles Aircraft Company was developing a supersonic experimental aircraft , the M 52 , but lack of basic data on supersonic conditions led to the decision in 1948 not to risk a pilot 's life flying it until more was known about the compressibility of air , or the sound barrier . |
| 4 | Resentment and resistance followed , notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace ; and although the Crown was able to ride that storm , it agreed in 1540 partially to replace the Statute of Uses with a milder act , the Statute of Wills , which in effect allowed landowners to avoid feudal incidents on two-thirds of their lands . |
| 5 | Education was encouraged by the General Education Act of 1870 ; and made compulsory in 1876 up to age 10 and to age 14 according to the Act of 1880 . |
| 6 | Level the top of the cake and cut in half vertically to form two semi-circles . |
| 7 | Fold this in half diagonally to make a triangle . |
| 8 | Slice the cake in half lengthways to form two long thin cakes . |
| 9 | The report concluded that the Fayed brothers , Mohamed and Ali , had ( i ) dishonestly misrepresented their background and wealth to the DTI for the purpose of persuading the Department in 1985 not to refer the acquisition to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) ; ( ii ) used their connection with the Sultan of Brunei to enable them to acquire the funds used in the acquisition ; ( iii ) repeated their lies to their advisers , who had accepted at face value what they were told and failed to check its accuracy ; and ( iv ) misrepresented the extent of their business assets to both the DTI and to the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 10 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 11 | HSE was founded in 1969 primarily to supply Hitachi with programmers . |
| 12 | The Research Centre for Social Sciences was established in 1984 both to carry out research and to support research throughout the Faculty . |
| 13 | This body , in turn , is advised by the Advisory Committee for Genetic Manipulation ( ACGM ) , set up in 1984 specifically to establish guidelines for risk assessment in the case of recombinant DNA research . |
| 14 | Jordan 's hope of containing the PLO challenge lay in Washington 's decision in 1975 not to recognize the PLO unless it accepted the legitimacy of Israel and Security Council Resolution 242 . |
| 15 | The railway was brought to Coniston in 1859 mainly to transport copper and slate . |
| 16 | Having been engaged in an undeclared war with China since 1937 Japan took advantage of the French defeat in 1940 both to close one of China 's last remaining links with the outside world , the Haiphong — Yunnan railway , and to begin her advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 17 | Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister . |
| 18 | The ASEAN states decided in 1976 not to form a multilateral security relationship but to confine security cooperation within ASEAN to the bilateral level . |
| 19 | The late and lovely Ronnie Peterson , one of the sport 's true gentlemen , and in 1976 about to become , after a disastrous season , Mario 's team-mate , said laconically that Chapman 's creation of ‘ marginal ’ cars — that is , of cars stripped of weight and precaution — was ‘ something you just had to accept ’ . |
| 20 | According to the Iranian scholar S. H. Taqizadah , a correction was made to the Young-Avestan calendar in 441 BC to link it more closely with the seasons . |
| 21 | The issuing authority will arrange for each local contact specified in 3 above to prepare a supplement which specifies specific local or national stewardship issues . |
| 22 | He got there in 1912 only to find Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it . |
| 23 | He discarded his captain Wayne Shelford in a rather messy episode in mid-1990 only to find a few months later that Shelford 's replacement also had his faults . |
| 24 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 25 | Sikh ones have learned to live with the reality of this on their own terms , while Gujerati Hindu male egos appear in general not to suffer from this particular weakness at all . |
| 26 | Terminology is required in particular here to allow distinctions to be made between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language , and to show that the grammar of spoken English is different from that of written English , and not just a haphazard deviation from it . |
| 27 | On balance , it is probably better not to define such obligations in the partnership agreement itself except in general terms ( Clause 13.01 ) ; ( c ) the obligation on a partner not to involve himself in other professional activity save for the benefit of the firm ( and in particular not to compete with the firm ) and to account to the firm for any profits made . |
| 28 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 29 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 30 | ‘ Go on , Miss Kyte ! ’ prompted Araminta , moving in close enough to deliver a vicious prod to Theda 's ribs while she bestowed a melting look upon the hapless Reverend gentleman . |