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

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1 We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden .
2 But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding .
3 A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England .
4 However , magistrates have a large amount of work relating to family matters which is heard in private in the Family Proceedings Court .
5 He was speaking in private in the chapter house of the abbey of St Paul's-without-the-walls .
6 Hahnemann was born in 1755 in the pottery town of Meissen on the River Elbe in the Electorate of Saxony .
7 This was shown on French-speaking Belgian television in 1971 in the programme ‘ Signe des Temps ’ ( Sign of the Times ) .
8 N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January .
9 Lady Amory 's reaction to this was a mixture of sadness and the old excitement : ‘ We 're very fortunate in that in the near part of the wood garden we 've been able to grass over and you would n't realise the number of big trees that have come down .
10 And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ?
11 They differ in that in the case of prepayments the exact amount is known and has been paid although the services have yet to be received whereas in the case of an accrual the service has been received but has not been paid for and we have to estimate the amount due .
12 The event must to some extent match this vulnerability , in that in the context of the person 's past history , say , its interpretation poses a particularly marked threat .
13 The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it .
14 just got ta put something in that in the coursework and the exams that sort of gets you over the forty percent barrier and in psychology it 's not that difficult to sort of waffle your way up to forty percent erm without wishing ma to make it sound too easy erm
15 Yes , it 'll be more stable in that in the car wo n't it ?
16 Can I can I , before we go to Mr Potter , erm may be my slightly naive mind here but I distinguish when you start talking about a strategic site approach to planning for and one of provision within North Yorkshire er as being different from an approach based on major exceptions in that in the sense that you would actually plan for the ability to cope with what my colleague calls the ointment coming over the horizon .
17 These 13 quartets were composed between 1770 and 1773 , or more precisely in 1770 in the case of the G major Quartet which is the earliest , and between 1772–3 for the others .
18 After nearly thirty years , the first AC electric Co-Co locomotive arrived in 1986 in the shape of the prototype 5,850hp , 125mph Class 89 , built under contract by BREL Crewe with electrical gear by Brush Traction .
19 It was the same stadium that Melpomene , an unofficial woman entrant , stepped into in 1986 in the first Olympic marathon .
20 However , collaboration with Apple in 1986 in the publication of a daily newspaper for the athletes ' village at the Commonwealth Games , held that year in Edinburgh , resulted in the acquisition of several Apple Macintoshes and a laser printer .
21 In 1986 in the United Kingdom , there was one marriage every 80 seconds , and a divorce once every 175 seconds !
22 Diana de Moutis , entrusted with the sale of ‘ La Celestine ’ by its owner Georges Pellequer , contacted Didier Imbert in 1986 in the hope he could help her obtain an export licence .
23 The Bank has only once been sued for regulatory failure , after it rescued Johnson Matthey Bankers ; the case was settled out of court in 1986 in the Bank 's favour .
24 In February the Interior Minister , Col. Djibril Ould Abdullah , who had generally been considered to be second in the political hierarchy and had been involved in 1986 in the vigorous suppression of unrest among black Mauritanians , was dismissed and replaced by Col. Mohammed Sidina Ould Sidya , a southerner [ see p. 37239 ] .
25 Only half a generation later the Dutch had found them in Borneo and more were revealed in 1829 in the Urals as part of the Russian drive to open up the mineral resources of the interior .
26 His main competitors were two merchant bankers , Isidore and Maurice Ostrer , who had acquired a stake in Gaumont-British in the 1920s .
27 Nicholson writes in 1861 in the Annals of Kendal of ‘ hosiers attending Markets to collect stockings and give out worsted . ’
28 When democracy was re-established Averoff served as Minister of Defence in 1974-80 in the government led by Karamanlis [ see p. 26668 ] .
29 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
30 Following extensive feasibility studies into timetabling arrangements and the technical aspects of the assessment proposals , the Secretary of State produced his response to the reports in 1980 in the shape of a circular from SED ( No. 10/93 ) which included these words :
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