Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | No great change occurred in this situation until the outbreak of the crisis and the introduction of the adjustment policies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 5 | Was the fire brigade hindered in any way ? |
| 6 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 7 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 8 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 9 | In the health area , the old fashioned general practitioner functioned in this way ( in contrast to the support structure of a centralised health system ) . |
| 10 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 11 | The cocaine flew in all directions . |
| 12 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 13 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 14 | Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee . |
| 15 | The canteen ran in this form , with a day and night shift throughout the war and after until around 1960 , when the night shift was withdrawn through lack of support and a skeleton staff supplied tea and snacks to order to the Works night shift . |
| 16 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 17 | Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question . |
| 18 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 19 | Erm , I er have never known such a question asked in this council chamber where referring to members of parliament er in in er and that is why I did n't feel it necessary |
| 20 | Ironically , as the first question asked in this book is ‘ Can we know what Renaissance colour was ? ’ , the colour plates are distinctly variable in quality . |
| 21 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by W Fox and D A Mitchison ( 20 February , p 515 ) . |
| 22 | An editorial error occurred in this letter by J Kilgour-Christie and A H Watt ( 13 March , pp 721–2 ) . |
| 23 | During the period of follow up , no significant decrease of the median extent of gastric metaplasia occurred in both groups ( Wilcoxon rank sum test for paired data , p=0.08 for group 1 and p>0.5 for group 2 ) . |
| 24 | When a child came in this morning , the one I , that we accused of taking that out , he said he did n't take it , I went on and on and on , he said he did n't take it , I said I want a letter from your father to say that you bought it then , that does n't mean anything , the father could lie . |
| 25 | After all , my reputation is in all likelihood blasted in any event . |
| 26 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 27 | Winter arrived in some parts of West Germany just 15 days after autumn officially began and some areas in the Black Forest and the Alps recorded freezing temperatures and snowfalls |
| 28 | As a doctor , she was more than well aware that children needed to be protected , and that abuse existed in many forms . |
| 29 | I should feel my self higley gratefied in this favour from you for hur , & hope you will parden the libertey I take in this Important solicitation for my sister |
| 30 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |