Example sentences of "happened in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 2 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 3 | Such a crisis happened in the stormy weather of a particularly difficult week in February , when everyone was feeling just a little touchy . |
| 4 | Perhaps this is what happened in the neighbouring rooms , which were occupied by all different people . |
| 5 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 6 | Still , I suppose this was what happened in the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | SOMETHING new happened in the Middle East when 192 devout Libyan Muslims arrived in Israel on May 31st to visit Islam 's holy places in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | How can we criticize it , how well does it actually fit into what happened in the real world , they just want little bits of information but not too much depth on anything but always remember empirical evidence examples are very important what I would do is using those examples or la last year 's exam paper , practise , practise the short answers because you ca n't write very much detail in it so it 's a good idea to have some idea about how much you can write , then your expectations will be changed okay . |
| 9 | He decided to wait and see what happened in the other rehearsals . |
| 10 | It nearly happened in the first Test . |
| 11 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |
| 12 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 13 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 14 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 15 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 17 | Whatever happened in the smoky offices of Swindon Town Football Club , Lou Macari clearly felt his honour was questioned , and he remains ruthless in the pursuit of his innocence . |
| 18 | The Nikkei index of share prices plunged by 3½ p.c. on both Tuesday and Wednesday , and whatever happened in the early hours of this morning , the index has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year and more than halved from its peak . |
| 19 | It happened in the early hours of this morning . ‘ |
| 20 | The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning , but details have only just been released . |
| 21 | Police say the attack happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning . |
| 22 | The showdown between the two love rivals happened in the early hours of the morning , when the victim was woken by someone banging on his door . |
| 23 | I think it does happen in China , I think it happened in the early part of the Russian revolution before Stalin was and we had communism with . |
| 24 | What happened in the early Empire to the traditional Roman portrait ? |
| 25 | ‘ I know what happened in the early years was morally wrong . |
| 26 | In the first year , right , there was not enough rain , right , in order to swell the tubers , right , presumably the same thing happened in the second year , but no , the reason why er , yields were very low in nineteen seventy four , was because there was too much rain . |
| 27 | But , as we shall see , it was not the Bolshevik position on the question which alone determined what happened in the Russian empire , nor is it clear that , in practice , the Bolsheviks had had any real alternative if the revolution was to be successful . |
| 28 | ‘ Despite what happened in the European Championship in Sweden , I 'll be very surprised if he is n't successful . |
| 29 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 30 | Even more profound changes happened in the internal structures of the brachiopods , partly those concerned with supporting the lophophore — these changed from simple loops to complex ‘ doubled back ’ structures , or to fantastic spirals and whorls — all presumably designed to increase the ways of food-gathering , and its efficiency . |