Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education .
2 ‘ There used to be a barn in that dip over to the left .
3 She trained as a missionary , and in 1935 went out to Beirut as treasurer to a mission — the Middle-Eastern Christian Outreach — where , naturally , she also seized the opportunity of teaching PT and games to the student teachers on the campus .
4 He received little except somewhat vague offers of support but early in 1707 went back to Scotland , this time returning to St Germain with a formal invitation to ‘ James III and VIII ’ to reclaim his kingdom .
5 Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places .
6 The theory is that data from the vast bulk of incoming faxes is later inputted in some form back into the computer .
7 Geoffrey Scott was at Rugby School from 1898 to 1902 , and in 1903 went up to New College , Oxford , as an exhibitioner .
8 The Animals in Medicine Research Information Centre ( AMRIC ) was founded in 1985 to speak out on behalf of such workers , yet the climate remains an unhappy one , thriving on propaganda , half-truths , and plain ignorance , as well as violence .
9 However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg .
10 The Russian Christian Democratic Movement , which left the Democratic Russia movement in 1991 to go over to the opposition , did not participate in this " united opposition " declaration .
11 The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 .
12 He left the club in a financial purge at the end of 1954–55 but was invited back in 1969 to help out with the groundstaff .
13 During that time Nicklaus won eight Majors in 33 starts , a success rate of 24.2% , compared with Faldo 's recent five wins in 21 starts up to and including The Open — a 23.8% success rate .
14 The Royal Commission on Environmental Protection in 1976 came up with an even lower figure of 250 rads .
15 When Norman walked in all dressed up with his hair slicked back , he got a muted response and one wag shouted ‘ on that count you 've got about three supporters ! ’ .
16 Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth .
17 Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge !
18 The Anglo-American conglomerate that went public in 1964 romped in with results that should guarantee him another bumper pay packet .
19 With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS .
20 For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 .
21 Whether by luck or careful management , Callaghan 's administration looked much more credible now , and many expected him to call an autumn election in 1978 to cash in on favourable economic and political trends and , against all the odds , snatch another term of power .
22 The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television .
23 Sir Hector Monroe , the Conservative with the safest seat in Scotland in 1987 held on in Dumfries with a slight increase in his majority .
24 While seamen 's wages increased on average between 1896 and 1910 by between 7% and 8% , money wages of workers in general increased by about 1 0% .
25 Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished .
26 A disagreement over patients ' preparation and post-operational recovery regime resulted in Daniel leaving his father in 1763 to set up on his own at Ingatestone , Essex .
27 Among these , a pertinent example is Claudius Rey , a weaver , who in 1719 contributed along with Defoe to a debate relating to the importation of calico .
28 Nguyen Ai Quoc went into Yunnan early in 1942 to link up with the many other Vietnamese exiles who were known collectively as Dong Minh Hoi .
29 The resignations of four government ministers in late September were believed to be related to forthcoming elections , with Education Minister Ricardo Lagos Escobar in particular stepping down in order to stand for the presidency in 1993 , and Carlos Ominami Pascual ( Economy ) to organize his campaign .
30 This in particular goes back to the issue of being told what the judiciary have recommended .
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