Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 So saying , disdainfully Lexandro left the scriptory and returned to his small cell to recite in private one of the liturgies they had all been taught .
2 Further demonstrations in support of independence took place in early 1989 on the anniversary of the republic 's incorporation into the USSR ( February 1921 ) .
3 UE started at 37 B.2s , five PR.3s and six T.4s in early 1954 with the T.4 element increasing to eighteen by January 1956 .
4 None of the Oxford work really paralleled this European and American shift , though Marty St James 's and Anne Wilson 's Portrait of Shobana Jeyasingh ( 1990 ) shown in the Harris exhibition ( a relative of the works on show in early 1991 at the National portrait Gallery in London ) works through many related concerns .
5 The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry had issued invitations to UN officials in early 1991 after the Legislative Yuan passed a resolution urging Taiwan to apply to re-join the UN .
6 UK and Netherlands reservations about the viability of the proposed EC/WEU merger appeared to be vindicated in early 1991 by the EC Commission 's failure to agree on any joint policy on the Gulf conflict ( Germany and Denmark opposing all military involvement in the region ) , at a time when the forces despatched by the UK , France and Italy to support the US-led alliance against Iraq were making a visible and effective contribution to the restoration of Kuwait 's sovereignty [ see pp. 37934 ; 37941 ] .
7 In early 1981 under the cloak of exercises , Polish military units in strategic locations were redeployed and their barracks occupied by internal security troops .
8 The Netherlands offered to provide an alternative supply in early 1984 from the Groningen field .
9 Relations with the United States , South Korea 's main ally , also improved in early 1990 as the Roh government appeared to accept the proposed reduction ( from 44,000 to 37,000 over two years ) in the number of US troops stationed in South Korea .
10 They were hampered in early 1990 by the annual " Team Spirit " joint South Korea-United States military exercises of which North Korea vehemently disapproved [ see p. 36465 ] .
11 Two prominent ousted CPCz officials committed suicide in early 1990 in the wake of the November revolution .
12 There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city .
13 REGARDED as the greatest German architect of the 19th century , Karl Friedrich Schinkel could , in the spirit of the age , turn his hand to most things from a design in spiky Gothic to the boldly neo-classical of the Greek revival .
14 ‘ That 'll shake out the cobwebs , ’ Nora said , drawing in great lungsful of the breeze , until she shivered .
15 The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing .
16 Based in the occupied territories , it was created by former members of the Palestine Communist Party ( which had changed its name in late 1991 to the Palestine People 's Party ) .
17 In late 1987 in the USA it was reported that because of increasing criticism about lateness in domestic airline flights , one action taken was to increase the scheduled flight times for journeys , an action judged by the media to be more honest .
18 Originally proposed by French President Mitterrand and approved by the EC in late 1989 following the collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe [ see pp. 37028 ; 37132 ] , the EBRD was formally inaugurated in April 1991 [ see p. 38155 ] .
19 It was flown for six years by the Canadians before it was sold as surplus in late 1947 by the War Assets Corporation .
20 Relations with the USA deteriorated sharply in late 1990 over the issue of alleged Libyan involvement in the overthrow of President Hissène Habré of Chad .
21 Tensions became still greater in late 1990 following the success of the ‘ Round Table/Free Georgia ’ coalition at the elections and the formation of a nationalist administration headed by the veteran dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia .
22 The Azaña coalition reached its apogee in late 1932 with the defeat of Sanjurjo 's rising and the passage of both the Agrarian Reform Act and the Catalan Statute .
23 This legend forms the basis of a compelling play by the modern Serbian writer Borislav Mihajlović , which achieved a notable success when first produced in Novi Sad in the early 1960s .
24 Five mallard shot past the tree in which he was hidden , their muttered quacks in mid-air soft as the sun that crept the way they were going and began to fill the lake with light .
25 There was no significant difference in gastric emptying between the two groups .
26 There was no significant difference in gastric emptying between the two groups , but small intestinal transit ( p<0.001 ) and whole gut transit ( p<0.05 ) were faster in the patients than in the control subjects .
27 It is not known from that study , however , whether the reduction in intraduodenal bilirubin output resulted from hyperglycaemia induced alterations in gastric emptying of the meal , alterations in endogenous CCK secretion , or alterations in the responsiveness of the gall bladder to CCK .
28 Besides , in tidal freshwater during the spring , phosphorus can have the opposite effect , limiting the growth of some types of phytoplankton .
29 Any extras — drinks , additional meals , etc. — and the cost of any extension of stay must be paid in full direct to the hotel before the end of your stay .
30 A hard impact on an unprotected bone can result in severe bleeding under the skin .
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