Example sentences of "[vb past] an [noun] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the clinical impression that balanitis is common in young boys , the only detailed study of this condition reported an incidence of 4% in all boys aged up to 14 . |
| 2 | The rising created an atmosphere of disorder in which those with grievances felt free to take violent action against their enemies . |
| 3 | The use of a ‘ twinkle ’ facility created an impression of movement in some sequences . |
| 4 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 5 | To start with , nobody seems to have seen the original cylinder , which was supposed to have been recorded when Wilde visited an exhibition in Paris in the year 1900 . |
| 6 | He encouraged movement , vigour , and a sense of character in her birds ; he instilled an idea of composition in which the subject related to its background , instead of perching in mid-air like a cardboard cut-out . |
| 7 | Then came an offer of land in the swampy jungle area 40 miles to the east of Calcutta , known as the Sandurbans . |
| 8 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 9 | On late Saturday afternoons , at the corner the kerb is covered with men who stand with their backs to the light , intently reading in a pink newspaper full of poetical reporting and results ‘ noted an observer of Glasgow in 1901 . |
| 10 | There had been indications in late 1990 that the security forces faced an upsurge in demonstrations in protest at the transmigration of non-Timorese into East Timor [ see p. 37861 ] . |
| 11 | Our finding is similar to that of Simmonds et al who also showed an increase in chemiluminescence in ulcerative colitis . |
| 12 | They also acknowledged that operators had initially delayed taking action for nearly an hour , in the belief that a gauge which showed an increase in radioactivity in the secondary system might be giving false readings . |
| 13 | A recent study which used the western blotting technique also showed an antibody against granulocytes in similar patients . |
| 14 | He then spent two years in Newfoundland ( 1873–4 ) investigating mineral resources , and joined an expedition to Arabia in 1874 . |
| 15 | India claimed an area north of Kashmir , seized by the Chinese in 1962 , while the Chinese claimed an area of land in the state of Arunachal Pradesh [ see p. 34947 ] . |
| 16 | Lombard NatWest recently opened a northern service centre in Leeds , while Venture Factors , a United Bank of Kuwait subsidiary , opened an office in Manchester in April . |
| 17 | Within the Eastern District , Berkhamsted branch ( Hertfordshire ) hung a banner proclaiming ‘ 1903-WEA-1953 ’ in the High Street for a week , using the hoardings protecting the new site of Woolworths , and also sold literature and distributed publicity from a stall in the marketplace ; Sprowston branch ( Norfolk ) arranged an exhibition of Victoriana in the village school , with local firms and libraries as well as members themselves lending material ; Peterborough branch held a garden party at the Bishop 's House , featuring addresses by Lady Simon , one of the WEA 's vice-presidents , and by Dr. Charles Morris , chairman of the National Foundation for Adult Education . |
| 18 | But before she died , Elizabeth I signed an Act of Parliament in 1600 ‘ for the recovering of many hundred thousand Acres of marshes ’ . |
| 19 | On Jan. 20 , 1990 , the Iraqi government signed an accord with BNL in Geneva legitimizing the release of all but $750,000,000 of the total loan commitment , but relating it to Iraq 's commitment to employ two-thirds of the credit to buy Italian exports . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister , Shaikh Khalifa bin Sulman al-Khalifa , and the Vice-Chairman of the Baath Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq , Izzat Ibrahim , on Dec. 12 , 1989 , signed an agreement on non-interference in each others ' domestic affairs and on the non-use of force by either side . |
| 21 | The Black Prince might have been expected to step into his father 's shoes and fulfil the promise he had shown at Crécy and Poitiers ; but he developed an illness in Spain in 1367 which never entirely left him . |
| 22 | These figures constituted an increase of 82% in the number of establishments and 30% in the number of elderly people resident since 1979 ( table I ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Eventually the council concerned made an offer of £1,000 in compensation , but counsel 's opinion is that damages in the region of £5,000 are appropriate . |
| 24 | He became an expert on Ash in Ash 's most unfashionable days . |
| 25 | These examples form a bridge between the classical conception of trust wording and the post-classical , for which ‘ precatory , words became an article of faith in construing a disposition as a trust . |
| 26 | As for his neglect of education in Islay , he maintained four schools at his own cost before he owned an acre of land in Islay and that in Port Ellen where the most important of these was he had paid the salary of the teacher for 22 years . |
| 27 | I announced an increase of grant in aid of 10 per cent. , roughly two and a half times the present rate of inflation . |
| 28 | It sought an explanation of crime in the criminal , not in the criminal law . |
| 29 | The rebellion was crushed by the British Government , which then passed an Act of Union in 1801 , abolishing the Dublin parliament and integrating Ireland with the UK . |
| 30 | The Prince of Wales established an award for innovation in 1985 and his working group on innovation was set up after a conference at Highgrove last year . |