Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adj] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Preface first published in the 1841 edition of the book CD defended his representation of criminals , and especially his sympathetic treatment of Nancy . |
| 2 | Finally , it should be noted that s.14 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 , restating a rule first contained in the 1958 Act , provides that no provision in legislation prior to 1958 should be taken as ousting the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court , thus making clear the Government 's intention that all statutory tribunals should be subject to this jurisdiction regardless of whether other remedies are provided . |
| 3 | This looks very like the rerun of a scenario first enacted in the early years of this century , when two unknown expatriate American poets attacked a torpid English literary establishment in the name of nascent modernism , looking to France for their intellectual inspiration and their models of literary achievement . |
| 4 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 5 | Mungo Jerry 's In the Summertime , a number one hit in the summer of 1970 highlights the tough TV advertsing campaign . |
| 6 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 7 | The major source of the neutralising capacity of saliva is its bicarbonate content , but there is now evidence that gland bearing oesophageal mucosa can also secrete alkali , a phenomenon first documented in the opossum esophagus in vivo . |
| 8 | The first of these is the problem of observational equivalence , a problem first discussed in the context of rational expectations models by Sargent ( 1976a ) . |
| 9 | This last point is politically most important for Engels since he uses it to show how the development of the State implies the destruction of the egalitarian and communally-based gens : a proof of the Marxist view of the State as fundamentally a class institution , a view first developed in The German Ideology . |