Example sentences of "in [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Similar allegations in 1971 led to one MP 's being suspended from the House . ) |
| 2 | Active chronic duodenitis in patients not taking NSAIDs was more commonly diagnosed in our study than in that reported by some workers , who studied this abnormality in patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia . |
| 3 | Properties in this sought after residential road rarely become available , so view now ! ! ! |
| 4 | The Sept. 18 vote , by 55 to 40 , involved the rejection of an alternative proposal backed by the Bush administration , for a 90-day moratorium in 1993 followed by limited testing until 1998 . |
| 5 | A government report in 1963 concluded on this issue : ‘ A national policy of expansion would improve the regional picture ; and , in turn , a successful regional development programme would make it easier to achieve a national growth programme . ’ |
| 6 | Australia was also forced to take a stand on drift-netting when the establishment of the Australian Fishing Zone in 1979 brought under Australian jurisdiction a Taiwanese drift fleet that had been operating , since the mid 1970s , in what had previously been international waters in the Timor and Arafura Seas off northern Australia . |
| 7 | Imports of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) in 1991 fell to 2,600 tonnes from 6,700 tonnes in 1986 . |
| 8 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 9 | Media fame came with her use in the BBC 's serialisation of ‘ The Railway Children ’ in 1969 followed by limited use and ‘ retirement ’ in the mid-seventies . |
| 10 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 11 | At the Communist world conference in 1957 held in post-Sputnik euphoria , Mao Tse-tung declared that the East wind was prevailing over the West wind and that nuclear war would mean the end of capitalism but not of communism : if 300 million Chinese were killed , there would still be 300 million left alive . |
| 12 | Expeditions to the bottom of the peat-filled loch in 1976 resulted in many photographs of what appeared to be a herd of giant sea-creatures with paddle-like fins , long necks and calf-like heads . |
| 13 | House closings in 1992 amounted to 695 units , marginally lower than the number in 1991 . |
| 14 | The Institute offered examinations in 32 subjects in 1992 held in 994 centres in the UK and 525 overseas . |
| 15 | An early attempt by ex-ministers to overthrow Banda in 1964 ended in total failure ; three high-ranking party members disappeared in a car crash in 1982 . |
| 16 | In 1927 it became a unit of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux as the Imperial Mycological Institute and in 1930 moved into purpose-built accommodation on land leased from Kew Gardens . |
| 17 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 18 | Mutton and lamb exports from the UK in 1978 amounted to 41,400 tonnes , 7% less than in 1977 but there was a substantial increase in live sheep exports from 356,000 in 1977 to 587,000 in 1978 . |
| 19 | An expensive fund-raising exercise in 1987 aimed at financial institutions raised only £55,000 which was one third of the initial target figure although some isolated local initiatives have brought much-appreciated donations from local businesses . |
| 20 | Another General Election in 1970 intervened before these proposals could be implemented . |
| 21 | The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers . |
| 22 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 23 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 24 | Renault in particular looked in good health despite its slight slip in the market this year . |
| 25 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 26 | Medics in particular capitalized on this state of affairs , mobilizing the results of scientific research as part of their broader push for increased representation with the state . |
| 27 | Two names in particular appeared with enough regularity for people to talk . |
| 28 | After six years at Bishop 's House he went to reside at St Urban 's , Leeds and then in 1982 moved to Holy Family , Leeds , taking over as Parish Priest from Canon Patrick Bradley in 1985 . |
| 29 | More than a third said they would take advantage of free insurance while one in four opted for free child places . |
| 30 | Berkshire is very similar in this respect to Wiltshire : on an average about one acre in four enclosed by private act , but rising on the chalk downs to more than one in two . |