Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After his marriage to Jane Crellin in the parish church of German , 8 March 1798 , he built in Colby a house for himself and his family ( six daughters and two sons ) , later called Ravenstone . |
| 2 | More recently , Oda et al reported in detail a technique for the harvesting and longterm culture of dog gall bladder epithelial cells . |
| 3 | This proposed in detail a series of measures designed to introduce a more liberal and accountable constitutional structure into an authoritarian Moslem state . |
| 4 | It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying . |
| 5 | To his surprise he received in reply a note from her mother . |
| 6 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 7 | The RPT national council on May 27 adopted in principle a proposal by Eyadema to separate the functions of head of state and head of the party . |
| 8 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 9 | Gorbachev on Nov. 3 organized in Moscow a meeting between Moldavian President Mircha Snegur and Gagauz and Dnestr Russian community leaders . |
| 10 | In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ] |
| 11 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 12 | Reacting violently against his strict upbringing , and in particular the tutelage of an overbearing father , Mansel became in adulthood a man of fashion , a wit , and a rake , persistently extravagant in the teeth of parental injunctions to economy . |
| 13 | On 14 April 1979 Mr. Steed executed in California a power of attorney naming his mother , Mrs. Steed , as his attorney . |
| 14 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 15 | Or to put it differently , he saw in nature a storehouse of artistic forms . |
| 16 | But the problem with Clairvaux was that although it lay in Poitou a Count of Anjou could claim to hold it . |
| 17 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 18 | Soon after Hamilton 's battle-scarred book came out , moreover , in the spring of 1988 , there appeared in Britain a kind of memoir entitled The Facts-A Novelist 's Autobiography in which the issue was addressed in some passages of exceptional interest — the gaze and forehead of Olympian Zeus after the outcries and the special and professional pleading which had surrounded all but one of these other events . |
| 19 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 20 | There we identified and discussed in detail a number of factors critical to the quality and impact of any such course : the clarity and appropriateness of the messages conveyed ; the degree of match between messages as intended and as received ; the appropriateness of the methods used to convey the messages in question . |
| 21 | He had in prospect a time of truce , while Janet , an expert manager , in a trouser suit well adapted to the task , gave him very real help with the laying-up , but at the same time made a series of unacceptable comparisons between the caravan and Rochester . |
| 22 | Whether he had in mind a reduction in the Royalty , or perhaps a contribution towards the cost of the trials , is not clear . |
| 23 | The idea of citizenship itself had a special status during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods as politicians , philosophers , educationalists , and social scientists were continually calling for a revival of the concept , by which they had in mind a form of social organization stressing harmony , duty , service , self-realization , rationality , and morally good behaviour . |
| 24 | M. Chaillot had in mind a production of a new translation of Twelfth Night . |
| 25 | However , ‘ he remained in heart a clergyman to the end of his days ’ . |
| 26 | The prospect of London 's Big Bang in October 1986 set in train a process of consolidation among banks ( British and foreign ) and City stockbrokers . |
| 27 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 28 | Preston 's preference for two wingers allowed Bay to clamp the midfield , and they soon set in motion a stream of direct attacks of surprising accuracy . |