Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 2 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 4 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 5 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 6 | In 1801 the population of England and Wales was under nine million , of whom the great majority lived in rural communities outside London . |
| 7 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 8 | One Soviet writer argued in this vein that the EEC proposal was not directed at the neutralisation of Afghanistan at all but at hiding the ‘ undeclared war against the Afghan people ’ . |
| 9 | In particular the calculus of operations became in English preserve [ 96 ] . |
| 10 | Her hair clung in damp strands to her forehead , emphasising the whiteness of her face with the starkness of a black border on a mourning card . |
| 11 | Originally the coastal Eskimos , Chukchis and Koryaks lived in subterranean lodges like those of the Nivkhs . |
| 12 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 13 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 14 | In 1988 Cairns reported in abstract form 90 patients treated with an endoprosthesis , in 39 it was a short term measure as they underwent surgery or endoscopic clearance of the duct in a mean of 2.4 months , two ( 5% ) of these patients developed cholangitis . |
| 15 | Levitt moved in giddy circles . |
| 16 | I drank mint tea in the carpet shops ( and found Stefan Grappelli , Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop 's order book ) . |
| 17 | Average personal income rose in real terms by as much as 5 per cent per annum in the early 1960s , and continued to grow by an average of more than 1 per cent per year in the 1970s , resuming a level of 2–3 per cent per year in 1983–88 . |
| 18 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 19 | Take the case of Essex Junior School in Newham described in Spare Rib issue 55 : |
| 20 | In the control group all occurred in hospital diabetic clinics whereas for the prompted group 67% occurred in general practice . |
| 21 | That damage occurred in two ways . |
| 22 | In her booth the cashier sat knitting behind a tank in which a solitary goldfish swam in desultory circles . |
| 23 | As they were about to go inside — for although it was a pleasant summer day , it was always likely to be windy on top , and their hats might blow away — Florrie exclaimed in sudden panic : ‘ Oh , good gracious ! |
| 24 | The degree of hostility to these treaty revision proposals stemmed in large part from feelings that any continuing unsolicited Western involvement in the legal system was an insult to Japan , and that Westernization had in any case gone too far . |
| 25 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 26 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 27 | Some changes in a competitive direction occurred in value-added networks ( VANs ) , terminals , private branch exchanges ( PBXs ) and local area networks ( LANs ) ; these were mainly intra-company communications areas where IBM was already strongly positioned in terms of products , services and existing customers . |
| 28 | As the sea level rose in Post-glacial times two conflicting physical processes took place : a tendency for the sea to invade the area and to leave behind extensive deposits of marine silt and a tendency for a large-scale development of peat in the districts furthest away from the sea . |
| 29 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |
| 30 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |