Example sentences of "in [adj] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrival of the Turks in the Red Sea in 1517 proved disastrous for the Abyssinians . |
| 2 | Edith Lathrop 's study of American rural schools in 1934 revealed many supportive agencies lending slides , stereographs and movies , often to libraries . |
| 3 | Anyone wishing to join the League in 1934 took this pledge ( later to be revised in 1965 ) : |
| 4 | The business passed to his cousin , Walter E. Tower , and the weak derivatives of the Kempe formula produced until the studio 's demise in 1934 did little to advance Kempe 's reputation . |
| 5 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 6 | Ten years ago , only one young person in eight entered higher education . |
| 7 | Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ . |
| 8 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 9 | The host led by Swegen and Olaf in 994 comprised ninety-four ships , was strong enough to assault London , and threatened to attack Canterbury . |
| 10 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 11 | These include moving all the pictures to the National Gallery ; storing the pictures in situ in a permanently closed Gallery ; selling off some of the pictures ( one such sale in 1971 caused public outcry ) ; and launching another major public appeal as in 1984–85 and 1988 ( unlikely to succeed again ) . |
| 12 | A directory I compiled in 1971 listed one hundred non-daily Zambian periodicals , ranging from the fortnightly Zambian language government newspapers to annual journals . |
| 13 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |
| 14 | A survey by the Confederation of British Industry in 1986 estimated that absence from work cost British industry at least £5 billion . |
| 15 | Agrokomerc is a large ‘ complex ’ organization , which in 1986 contained fourteen work organizations and thirty-four basic ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ , mainly engaged in the production of food products . |
| 16 | Whereas the four regions of the South together gained 449 000 extra jobs between 1983 and 1986 , the six other regions combined managed a net increase of only 83 000 jobs and in 1986 contained 1.37 million , or 12 per cent , fewer jobs than in 1979 ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 17 | What was sold in 1986 included many pieces of a decorative nature while the approximate ninety-nine lots consigned by Mr Ortiz-Patiño are of a more consistent quality . |
| 18 | The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus . |
| 19 | The first batch of railcoaches took fleet numbers 200–224 , and a second was delivered in 1935 numbered 264–283 . |
| 20 | Finally , from Burgundy , Charles early in 841 received two valuable recruits : Count Warin , and Bishop Theutbald of Langres . |
| 21 | A survey of the middle reaches of the river Idle in Nottinghamshire in 1980 discovered two clumps of marginal plants and three trees over five miles of river . |
| 22 | Industrial countries in 1980 took 33 per cent of their tax from incomes while least developed countries collected only 17 per cent from incomes , getting most of their revenue from trade and sales duties . |
| 23 | But in 1872 discovered one of the jewels of nineteenth-century physics , a precise quantitative relation giving the entropy of a gas in terms of mechanical quantities , namely the distribution of positions and velocities of its molecules . |
| 24 | The school built in 1872 closed many years ago and the school building and school house are now two very attractive residences . |
| 25 | The men were close personal friends and after Disraeli 's resignation in 1880 , Salisbury , as he had then become , took over the leadership of the Conservative Party , and in 1885 became Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary . |
| 26 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 27 | only when the track was quadrupled in 1879 did residential development begin in earnest in this port of London . |
| 28 | Young in 1790 gave 10 to 25s ( 50p-£1.25 ) as the range for Birmingham but considered the higher level to predominate , making wages there " the highest in Europe " . |
| 29 | The Bunyip Magazine 's heartfelt condolences go out to you all in this blighted advertiser-dependent electronic media world . |
| 30 | Firstly , in this constrained economic climate , it is difficult to justify an expert in Italian Renaissance cities teaching students how to use a spreadsheet . |