Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Hankin of Sheffield won in 4 hours , 29 minutes and 31 seconds , 15 minutes faster than his time the previous year , beating Bradford 's Melvyn McCann into second place , but not breaking McCann 's record time of 4 hours , 25 minutes and 53 seconds set in 1984 . |
| 2 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 3 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 4 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 5 | January 1987 , unnamed spokesman of SMG quoted in Asian Times attacking Commissioner 's initiative on racial attacks , doubting motives and intentions . ’ |
| 6 | The hills were purple in the distance and the magic sky of Ireland smiled in sunny blue above them . |
| 7 | In the final simulation however , the continued presence of PSCs resulted in elevated levels of ClO ( Fig. 3 c ) and substantial ozone destruction . |
| 8 | The map of Wessex included in each volume was prepared from a drawing supplied by Hardy . |
| 9 | The numbers of TNCs based in Third World countries , particularly the NICs , has grown rapidly in recent years , and some Third World TNCs are extremely large and wield considerable influence ( Lall , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |
| 11 | A prime reason for this neglect has been the impact of the theories of Piaget mediated in this country through Goldman in the 1960s . |
| 12 | Charles Booth found that 31 per cent of London 's population in the 1880s lived in primary or secondary poverty and a decade later Seebohm Rowntree claimed that 28 per cent of the people of York lived in equal hardship . |
| 13 | Administration of IPV resulted in substantial increases in the seroprevalence and GMTs 4–6 weeks after vaccination , but there were few differences between the study groups when antibody titres were measured 13–17 months later . |
| 14 | The corporation of Devizes swore in two mayors in 1706 , both of whom set up their own common councils , with the Whig one meeting at the Guildhall , and the Tories at Weavers ' Hall . |
| 15 | the crew of Eevin regaled in corporate kit . |
| 16 | Town weavers in places like Manchester worked in small numbers in workshops . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not sure Lapointe 's quite right for her , you know , ’ confided his companion , who unlike Karelius seemed in talkative mood . |
| 18 | Their Anglo-Italian Cup-tie with Ascoli erupted in two minutes of fury — but the Football League will take no action . |
| 19 | Take the case of Essex Junior School in Newham described in Spare Rib issue 55 : |
| 20 | It was regarded by the authorities as the latest stage of a blood-feud which had begun over the purchase of a house , and which had already in March resulted in three deaths [ see p. 38840 ] . |
| 21 | Iraq 's action in setting fire to an estimated 600 oil wells prior to withdrawing from Kuwait resulted in widespread air pollution over the northern Gulf region . |
| 22 | Mrs M Watson of Wimborne in Dorset sent in this tip to us . |
| 23 | In addition to hundreds of parish libraries in England endowed in this way there were over thirty founded by Dr Bray in America , the largest being in Annapolis . |
| 24 | Between 1881 and 1891 the most rapid population growth in England occurred in four London suburbs : Leyton ( 133·3 per cent ) , Willesden ( 121·9 per cent ) , Tottenham ( 95·1 per cent ) and West Ham ( 58·9 per cent ) . |
| 25 | George Kirk , who works in Chemical Plants , battled round in four and a half hours while John Kenny from FDPED finished in three hours 18 minutes . |
| 26 | Numerous people ran into debt from being unable or unwilling to settle their credit card accounts at all or in full each month , and allowing their purchases to grow in price as every month passed , but the sums people in Britain owed in this way was a very small proportion of the total outstanding personal credit granted , which in 1987 Janet Ford reckoned in her book The Indebted Society was £30,000 million . |
| 27 | To find out how people in Islay lived in olden times and how their style of life differred from that in the other islands is of absorbing interest . |
| 28 | To find out how people in Islay lived in olden times and how their style of life differred from that in the other islands is of absorbing interest . |
| 29 | The Spanish Civil War , which began in July 1936 when General Franco 's fascist troops from Morocco landed in southern Spain , exerted a major impact upon the international political scene and , nationally , upon the attitude of the right and left in Britain . |
| 30 | The escape from France described in Flying Colours offers him the chance of the kind of swift , concrete description in which he excels but too often the pace slackens overmuch as Hornblower 's emotions are analysed with an almost sentimental thoroughness . |