Example sentences of "in [adj] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London committee 's acquiescence in 1825 was in part a mark of the force of provincial abolitionist attitudes . |
| 2 | He probably moved to London in 1290–1 , and in 1291–4 was in charge of making the Cheapside Eleanor cross , of which fragments survive in the Museum of London . |
| 3 | The one lay lord whose scope was seriously limited in this was of course the greatest , the King , who could seek no patron , and whose fiscal resources from taxation had to be charged on men whose own landed resources were under pressure . |
| 4 | The situation which had developed in 1747 was in fact identical with that of 1726 , with one friend in opposition to another , and the politician being asked to choose between them . |
| 5 | The largest individual fall in 1991 was for Victor Brauner whose mercurial rise of 720% between 1987 and 1990 could not be sustained . |
| 6 | A third school which was opened in 1894 was in Birmingham when a day class using oral methods was established . |
| 7 | The war that broke out between Richard II of Normandy and Eudes II of Blois in 1013–14 was over Eudes 's right to retain the dowry of his dead wife , Richard 's sister . |
| 8 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 9 | Mansell , whose usual spot in Formula One in 1992 was on pole , said qualifying for the Indy was much harder . |
| 10 | Turnover in 1992 was in excess of £2m . |
| 11 | The Arterial Roads Conference for Greater London in 1913 was in fact a regional plan , but the link between transport , city planning and civic design remained imperfect both in principle and practice . |
| 12 | The Anglo-French treaty of Utrecht in 1713 was in Latin ( the British copy ) as well as French ( the French one ) , but that of Rastadt in the following year in French alone . |
| 13 | One good vintage in five was about par . |
| 14 | By any standard the industry was not extensive : Berkshire was bracketed with Herefordshire at the bottom of a list of clothiers fined at Blackwell Hall in 1561 — 2 for marketing substandard cloth , with just one offender , a Reading man ; unless Berkshire workmanship in general was above average , production was clearly small in volume . |
| 15 | No , well actually erm as I recall it erm well as you remember as well that 1980 , 1979/1080 , after the revolution in Iran , the situation in the gulf in general was under turmoil . |
| 16 | and er erm and we discussed it fully and I 've been noting the points down you know but what , what in particular was of interest to you on that er er on that on those discussions ? |
| 17 | The whole emphasis of the first Act in 1889 was on espionage and treason . |
| 18 | A $5000 individual contribution in 1974 was worth $2252 1974 dollars twelve years later . |
| 19 | Anyone failing to pay the total amount shown on that account when they received it ( the end of the ‘ free credit ’ period ) would have to pay what he owed plus interest , which in 1990 was on average 2.2 per cent monthly or 29.8 Annual Percentage Rate ( risen from 23.1 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Our first post-war holiday in 1947 was by bus , from St Andrew Square , Edinburgh . |
| 21 | It may be noted that the outturn figure for the growth of M3 in 1980–81 was in fact 20.1 per cent and the corresponding figure for the PSBR as a percentage of GDP came out at 5.75 per cent . |