Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This area is rich in historic houses , such as the magnificent Blenheim Palace , and honey-coloured stone cottages clustered in scenic Cotswold villages . |
| 2 | Between 1881 and 1891 the most rapid population growth in England occurred in four London suburbs : Leyton ( 133·3 per cent ) , Willesden ( 121·9 per cent ) , Tottenham ( 95·1 per cent ) and West Ham ( 58·9 per cent ) . |
| 3 | Between 1971–8 and 1978–84 the largest upward shifts in rates of population change all occurred in Inner London boroughs . |
| 4 | As the House will be aware , on 29 November , three child care officers formerly employed by Leicestershire county council were convicted on extremely serious charges of sexual assault and other acts of violence which occurred in three Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 . |
| 5 | I additionally sported a wide silver tie furled in buxom Windsor knot . |
| 6 | He is less confident about striker Ian Wright , who scored in both Wembley games but picked up an ankle injury to go with his broken toe . |
| 7 | However , her favourite roles came in two Glenn Miller movies Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) , as the band 's vocalist ( Pat Friday dubbing her singing ‘ I Know Why ’ ) , and as one of the Orchestra Wives the following year . |
| 8 | A fine all-round games player , he was a dogged opening batsman , and played in four Cambridge University seasons , scoring centuries in two successive Varsity matches . |
| 9 | He played in ten Hampden finals and went home as a winner eight times . |
| 10 | He was arrested three weeks later in possession of a giro cheque which had been stolen from another woman mugged in nearby Old Kent Road . |
| 11 | Age discrimination — which was not new but was worsening because of the current economic recession — existed in all EC countries , but had yet to be recognised as a problem , the report said . |
| 12 | Nearer home Reagan displayed in Central America readiness to back established and sometimes reactionary governments against left-wing guerrilla movements , as in El Salvador , or opposition to left-wing governments , as in Nicaragua . |
| 13 | The wedding day dawned in perfect September weather . |
| 14 | Notorious IRA killer Joe Doherty also lived in Upper Meadow Street which Mr Blair 's family , like other Protestant families , left in the 1970s . |
| 15 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 16 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |
| 17 | When the war reopened in 1369 Charles V was in a position of some strength . |
| 18 | W. de Brail' is almost certainly identifiable as the William de Brailes named in five Oxford property deeds of c .1230–60 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An hour later the phone rang in New Scotland Yard where John McLeish was sitting reading the scene-of-crime report . |
| 21 | The books on user involvement by Suzy Croft and Peter Beresford covered in 11 March issue are Getting Involved , available from Open Services Project , , price £5.95 , and Citizen Involvement : A Practical Guide for Change , price £9.50 published by Macmillan . |
| 22 | Started in 1854 Woodchester Mansion was the brainchild of a 21 year old architect who apparently spent all his patron 's money . |
| 23 | When Ferdinand died in 1989 Mrs Marcos seemed to be the only link to the billions of dollars that the Philippines claims the Marcos family stole during his presidency . |
| 24 | Lord Cholmondeley 's correspondent referred to the Smiths as ‘ very good Workmen ’ , and when Francis died in 1738 Sir Edmund Isham of Lamport , Northamptonshire , lamented the loss of ‘ our honest Builder Mr. Smith of Warwick ’ . |
| 25 | Both processes resulted in similar CL zonation patterns . |
| 26 | Four years of close contact with Leuven University , where Hilary Weedon regularly taught 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate PE students , taking Further Training Weekends for Teachers from Leuven and Brussels Universities , resulted in 4 Belgium students joining our own Summer Course . |
| 27 | More than half the book is based on material from the ensuing trial , which resulted in six BCCI staff being sentenced to terms of up to 14 years and BCCI being fined US$14 million . |
| 28 | The second phase of Japan 's local elections ( for mayors and legislators at city , ward , town and village level ) was held on April 21 and resulted in further LDP victories . |
| 29 | She only knew her good fortune lay in that Tyler Blacklock was an honourable man . |
| 30 | Food was mainly dehydrated but Pete would pep up meals by mixing in spices and niceties he kept in redundant Kodak film cans . |