Example sentences of "in [noun] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 2 | This was in part due to a disability which was not realized . |
| 3 | It is therefore arguable that the tendency towards singular reference with the mixed-descriptions is at least in part due to a strong tendency for named characters to be used as thematic subjects or main characters in continuations , although there is a small first-mention effect . |
| 4 | Because Messiahship was regarded as something dynastic , something in part dependent upon a bloodline , people 's attention , as we observed before , would have been focused on a relatively small network of interlinked families who could claim descent from both David and Aaron . |
| 5 | In particular the adoption of predatory habits was a new departure for the gastropods , and was in part responsible for a proliferation of the group unmatched in their Palaeozoic history . |
| 6 | Lutyens 's underlying sense of inferiority , the result of an impoverished childhood and lack of public school education , was in part responsible for a life beset with financial and marital despondency . |
| 7 | My patient presented in March 1991 with a raised red lesion on the back of her leg , which she believed had developed after an insect bite on holiday in Malta in 1990 . |
| 8 | The Tax Faculty , with a membership of 7,200 , was formed by the ICAEW Council in March 1991 as a free standing body with its own constitution within the Institute . |
| 9 | PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan told journalists in March 1991 of a challenge to his leadership from a PKK faction willing to accept regional autonomy rather than secession . |
| 10 | The treaty , after further consideration , was published in March 1991 in a revised draft . |
| 11 | Tactical training with Warrior , following conversion , started in March 1989 with a series of map exercises and discussions . |
| 12 | A major early step was the organisation in March 1989 of a separate ‘ round table ’ conference with other bodies having an interest in the future of higher education to agree a ‘ common cause ’ . |
| 13 | The President was last elected in March 1989 for a seven-year term [ see pp. 36518 ; 36678 ] ; the national People 's Assembly ( normal term five years ) was last elected in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] . |
| 14 | The Secretary-General , Chedli Klibi [ for whose re-appointment in March 1989 for a third term see p. 36537 ] , resigned in September after Saudi criticism of his handling of League reaction to the invasion ; Assad al Assad was named as Acting Secretary-General [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 15 | In March 1989 in an act of monumental bravado Aoun launched a " war of liberation " against Syria [ see p. 36538 ] . |
| 16 | Ingushetia , merged with the Chechen republic since 1934 , had again become a separate region in June 1992 , having responded to Chechnia 's independence demands in March 1992 with a demand to remain in the Russian Federation [ see p. 38826 ] . |
| 17 | The Spaak Report was unveiled for public debate in March 1956 in a special session of the ECSC Common Assembly , where only one vote was registered against its proposals ( though it should be noted that the extremes of the political spectrum were not represented in Strasbourg ) . |
| 18 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 19 | Hanoi 's view was outlined recently by Foreign Minister Co Thach in March 1987 at a dinner to mark the close of an Asian tour by his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze . |
| 20 | Independent within the Commonwealth since 1976 , the Republic of Seychelles was established in March 1979 as a one-party state . |
| 21 | Much more attention was being devoted to Korea in Washington in March 1947 at a time when the Truman administration was deeply involved in the complex issues inherent in taking over from Britain in handling aid to Greece . |
| 22 | Here the Lignite Action Group was set up in March 1985 after a public meeting in Moortown to express concern over test-drilling in the area was attended by 500 people . |
| 23 | He forced his way into our 3rd Division promotion team , playing alongside Brian Wood in an early dual central defender 's role , and from then onward missed only an occasional game through injury for four years in Division Two , before joining West Ham in March 1968 for a club record fee of around £80,000 . |
| 24 | The review was published in March 1988 as a Green paper Community Care : Agenda for Action and resulted in the November 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 25 | In March 1915 at a discussion between London Tramways Managers , Mr. Mason said he did not think women were suitable to conduct large open top cars , but in the New Year , the Company had to employ them , as so many men were being called up in the forces . |
| 26 | Lome IV was signed in December 1989 ( see p. 37133 ) and was to come into effect in March 1990 for a 10-year period ( unlike the previous conventions , whose duration had been five years ) . |
| 27 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 28 | Information technology : the ability to use computers to sort , process and retrieve information and to present information in forms appropriate to a particular purpose and audience . |
| 29 | The ability to use computers to sort , process and retrieve information and to present information in forms appropriate to a particular purpose and audience . |
| 30 | The Staff Development Programmes for Autumn 1992 and Spring 1993 are summarised in Appendix 2 including a brief description of the feedback gained using course evaluation sheets . |