Example sentences of "[adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warehouses will be welcomed by the manufacturers of top name labels which have been hardest-hit in the fashion trade as buyers are forced to buy cheaper products . |
| 2 | Absolute numbers of births increased from 667,811 in 1935 to 875,972 in 1964 , an increase of 31 per cent . |
| 3 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 4 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 5 | Few drivers who bought car insurance policies from Dr Emil Savundra 's Fire Auto & Marine in the mid-1960s will forget the culpability of then Board of Trade . |
| 6 | After that there was no way back for City and Rangers now travel to Marine in the second round on December 5 . |
| 7 | Occupations can feature predominantly , even where the victim is not in the person 's charge ( e.g. SEX OFFENCES OF FORMER M15 MAN ; TOWN CRIER 'S SEX ATTACK ON GIRL , 9 ; MARINE IN BED WITH TOT , 3 ; MARKET MANAGER IN INDECENCY CASE ) . |
| 8 | He was appointed a midshipman in the Bombay Marine in 1817 and arrived in India in May 1818 . |
| 9 | A LEADING environmental scientist — who has contributed to several television documentaries on green issues — today called on the Department of Marine in Dublin to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of swans at Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal . |
| 10 | Raym. 742 in which it was held that indebitatus assumpsit lay for money paid under the sentence of a court which had no jurisdiction . |
| 11 | There was in sum a marked fall in illegitimacy rates from the mid century , and from around 1876 in legitimate rates of birth . |
| 12 | , Harold John Wilde ( 1876–1919 ) , painter , was born 11 February 1876 in Road , Somerset , the second son of the Revd John Gilman , rector of Snargate with Snave , Romney Marsh , Kent , and his wife Emily Purcell Gulliver , daughter of a naval captain . |
| 13 | , Edith Mary ( 1876–1965 ) , midwife and international relief organizer , was born 20 October 1876 in London , the eldest daughter in the family of three daughters and four sons of William Arthur Pye , JP , wine merchant , and his wife Margaret Thompson , daughter of James Burns Kidston , writer to the signet , of Glasgow ; she was the sister of Sir David Randall Pye , FRS [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | , Edwin William ( 1876–1957 ) , missionary and anthropologist , was born 7 September 1876 in Aliwal North , Cape Colony , where his father , the Revd John Smith ( later president of the Primitive Methodist Church ) was serving as a missionary . |
| 15 | , ( Emily ) Margaret ( 1876–1951 ) , authority on English furniture and decoration , was born 15 August 1876 in Derwent , Derbyshire , the eighth in the family of five sons and five daughters of the Revd Francis Jourdain , vicar of Derwent Woodlands , Derbyshire , and his wife Emily , daughter of Charles Clay [ q.v. ] , |
| 16 | , Gwendolen Mary ( 1876–1939 ) , artist , was born 22 June 1876 in Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire , Wales , the elder daughter and the second of four children of Edwin William John , solicitor , and his wife Augusta Smith , who came from a Brighton family . |
| 17 | Deacon accumulated a fortune of over £100,000 , but his health was weakened by overwork and he died of typhoid 23 July 1876 in Widnes . |
| 18 | , Ernest Henry ( 1876–1930 ) , plant collector , was born 15 February 1876 in Chipping Campden , Gloucestershire , the eldest son of Henry Wilson , gardener , and his wife Annie Curtis . |
| 19 | Longo , a triple gold medallist at this year 's world championships , clocked 12hr 59min 50sec in the 10km , 25:59.96 in the 20km and covered 46.35268km in one hour . |
| 20 | Opposite : 304 in Abingdon Street on its night-time Marton route test . |
| 21 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 22 | Leland 's firm made the engines , transmissions and steering gear and Cadillac went from building two cars in 1902 to producing 1895 in the year between March 1903 and March 1904 . |
| 23 | Many people dislike its close connection to industrialisation , and would concur with George Gissing 's abhorrence of machinery , expressed in 1895 in his novel , Eve 's Ransom . |
| 24 | , Alfred John ( 1895–1982 ) , calligrapher , was born 12 July 1895 in Grimsby , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of Alfred John Fairbank , engine fitter , and his wife Emma Greetham , a Salvation Army officer . |
| 25 | , Archibald Gordon ( 1895–1941 ) , author and journalist , was born 3 November 1895 in Poona , India , the younger son in a family of two sons and one daughter of William Robert Macdonell , LLD , East India merchant and chairman of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce , later a distinguished figure in Scotland , and his wife Alice Elizabeth , daughter of John Forbes White , classical scholar and patron of the arts . |
| 26 | However , many remained sceptical , remembering the Tsars pledge in 1895 in a speech to Zemstvo representative to maintain autocracy . |
| 27 | The presence of DP-1 in Rb-associated DRTF1/E2F was tested with anti-peptide A ( antiserum 3 ) and anti-peptide 18 ( antiserum 11 ) . |
| 28 | FIG. 3 DP-1 in pRb and p107-DRTF1/E2F complexes . |
| 29 | The tube is mixed for 2 min at room temperature to allow binding of the DNA before the diatoms are sedimented for 5-10s in a microfuge . |
| 30 | 5.4.1 In both schools , we have noted the important contribution made to curriculum-related library development by the philosophies and policies of the staff involved . |