Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project cost in the region of Forints 55 million ( £440,000 ) and the gates open at the end of this month . |
| 2 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 3 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 4 | It was a routine business arrangement for the prophet , in a day when everyone believed in the power of words ( especially formal " blessings " and " cursings " ) to influence events . |
| 5 | Without her wishing it to be so , it seemed in the nature of things for her always to seek favour and her mistress to bestow it . |
| 6 | First , industrial wealth , signified in the form of stocks and shares , has increased rapidly in value , despite recent fluctuations on the stock market . |
| 7 | The first exploded in the chamber of horrors at Tussauds in Baker Street , central London , just after 1am yesterday . |
| 8 | Up to three grenades exploded in the House of Representatives on July 10 , two hours before a memorial service for opposition leader Marc Atti Depe , who had been killed during the attack on Olympio . |
| 9 | The clashes came in the wake of reports of continuing casualties on both sides in May , and of claims by the Human Rights Association that " torture , repression and arrests are all on the rise " . |
| 10 | This ultimatum [ see also p. 38403 ] came in the wake of reports which claimed that Iraqi troops were being massed around Kirkuk . |
| 11 | Ferranti 's move came in the wake of complaints about a market turndown from rivals such as Racal and Thomson CSF — the French group which may bid for Ferranti with British Aerospace . |
| 12 | It came in the form of imports from the ports of Dunkirk , Le Tréport , Dieppe , and Rouen , or from home-grown stocks dispatched from stations in the Vexin , Valois , and Picardy . |
| 13 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 14 | A rather higher proportion ( n.s. ) of referrals to the specialist team came in the form of requests for general assessment rather than for specific services . |
| 15 | Support for the scanning hypothesis of lateral differences in tachistoscopic recognition came in the form of findings which showed the direction of visual field asymmetry to be related to whether the stimuli are symmetrically shaped ( Bryden , 1968 ) or are presented in normal or in mirror image orientation ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ) . |
| 16 | At the same time , members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to revise the social affairs proposals stalled in the Council of Ministers for months . |
| 17 | He joined in the pursuit of Piers Gaveston [ q.v. ] in 1312 and served Lancaster in Scotland in 1318 . |
| 18 | Her father , who served in the Brigade of Guards , was the original Beachcomber columnist on the Daily Express and also guarded Sir Roger Casement when he was a prisoner in the Tower . |
| 19 | Later that year development work began in the light of responses to that paper . |
| 20 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 21 | Parliament granted the fixed and certain term which the agreements between the parties lacked in the case of tenancies for the duration of the war and which the present agreement lacks . |
| 22 | Moths fluttered in the light of lamps hanging from the trees as if dancing to the soft , rhythmic jingle of the cicadas . |
| 23 | Vernon Hartshorn , then a Derbyshire MP and a South Wales miners ' leader , asked in the Mouse of Commons : |
| 24 | The Scottish Council 's most recent interest in the subject arose in the context of changes in enterprise development policy . |
| 25 | Every buyer , lessee and mortgagee of property bounded by or adjacent to a canal should search before exchange of contracts by letter , with a plan , for information similar to that sought in the case of rivers . |
| 26 | Lord Devlin argued in The Enforcement of Morals that a shared morality is necessary for the continued existence of society , an assumption also central to Parsonian sociology . |
| 27 | As the moment approached for a key procedural vote that would make or break Reagan 's programme , Stockman received an agitated telephone call from Bill Thomas , a conservative Republican from California and an agent of the administration on Capitol Hill : This extended quotation provides a fascinating picture of the American pluralist system in operation while helping us to understand why the Reaganites were successful in fashioning the coalitions they required in the House of Representatives . |
| 28 | Taplin Green and Keeley — or their ghosts since none of those names now survived in the list of partners — had offices on the south side of New Square a corridor with an uneven floor under the carpeting and doorways that had subsided to odd angles . |
| 29 | Sailors who chanced on a sudden sand blizzard or capsized in the Neck of Mithridates were rarely rescued . |
| 30 | Romans predominated in the college of cardinals under both Celestine III and Innocent III . |