Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 2 | Alicia Penningtion first owned King Charles Spaniels in 1956 and began showing in 1959 . |
| 3 | Bend these legs in half and secure on to the frog behind the front limbs . |
| 4 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 5 | Palladian houses were not new in England — Coleshill in Berkshire , designed by Roger Pratt in 1650 , already had many of their characteristics — but it was the publication of two books in 1715 that established the style as the dominant , even exclusive , taste . |
| 6 | In the magazine 's October issue , we assessed the wrong varieties of two pasta sauces in Tried & Tasted . |
| 7 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 8 | He presented Widnes with public baths in 1889 and supported convalescent homes in Heswall and Southport . |
| 9 | A member of the Islington branch for six months in 1974 while working as a Foreign Office diplomat , Davies owned a flat in the same house as Chris Smith , currently a member of Labour 's Treasury team . |
| 10 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |
| 11 | Discovered by mining companies in 1971 and drilled by BGS in 1976 . |
| 12 | This short Act amounts to the United Kingdom 's formal approval of the agreement concluded by the heads of government of the Community countries in 1986 and known as the Single European Act , which makes important changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 13 | AT&T says it has plans to expand the service to nine European countries in 1994 and plans to invest $350m over five years to deliver the services but may spend less if it can form ventures . |
| 14 | The Chapter House was built by the royal masons in 1250 and contains some of the finest medieval sculpture in England . |
| 15 | The brewer is required to release 2,250 pubs in total and has already sold 950 . |
| 16 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 17 | The court was told Ninham had been convicted of indecently assaulting youngsters in 1990 and had been placed on probation medication to control his sex drive . |
| 18 | Mellor , again , who realises that it was irascibility over broadcasters in general that got the then government into the fine mess from which he had to extract it . |
| 19 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 20 | Taiwan banned rhino horn imports in 1985 but has given traditional medicine shops until 1994 to sell existing stocks [ see ED 65 ] . |
| 21 | That was not the only service rendered by Clement to Edward : he exonerated the king from his oath to the barons concerning the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 and annulled the clauses in the Articles on the Charters in 1300 which prescribed twice-yearly excommunication of all violators of Magna Carta and of the Forest Charter . |
| 22 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 23 | ‘ When I came here with my parents in 1974 and saw that most of the ‘ Australian ’ souvenirs were imported from Hong Kong and the Philippines , I decided to try and break into the market , ’ he recalled . |
| 24 | There are two springs in particular that interested them , 200 kilometres north-east of Calcutta and some 30 kilometres apart near Shantiniketan where the Indian poet Tagore lived . |
| 25 | She moved to Bradford in 1880 , and developed the principles first delivered in a series of lectures in 1885–6 and expounded in Home Education ( 1886 ) . |
| 26 | A former electrical engineering student is now in charge of a microcomputer company which generated $50 million in revenues in 1981 and has an annual growth rate of 200 per cent . |
| 27 | Bolton was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1914 and served on the council of the London Topographical Society ( 1918–27 ) . |
| 28 | In this chapter we link the discussion of bureaucracy to the wider concern with formal organisations in general and examine the formal relations , structures and processes that exist within an organisation . |
| 29 | Subsequently he was a pupil of ( Sir ) John Aspinall [ q.v. ] of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Horwich and became an assistant manager at their Newton Heath , Manchester , carriage workshops in 1901 and works manager in the following year . |
| 30 | And yet at the same time , the electronic revolution offers to the Library 's Special Collections and to our readers , great opportunities to use our unique research collections in new and enlightening ways . |