Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |
| 2 | Like Azikwe , Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln University , Pennsylvania , founded in 1854 as a college for Blacks , which introduced a theological faculty in 1869 affiliated to the presbyterian church . |
| 3 | Unlike Simon , however , ( who withdrew to France ) Peter accepted the king 's recovery of power in 1261 , and next year served the king and Edward as custodian of Abergavenny , which he tried in vain to protect from the attacks of Llywelyn ab Gruffydd [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | In Lambeth , for example , about one-quarter of expenditure in 1979–80 went to the voluntary sector , which was represented on appropriate committees ( Spooner , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | The opening service of Edenderry Memorial Church in 1891 began with the singing of the hymn : |
| 6 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 7 | His appointment to the governorship of Nigeria in 1948 looked like the triumph of his career . |
| 8 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 9 | The coach departed from Clun at 8 a.m. for the four-hour journey to Minehead , the terminus of the West Somerset and indeed of the original branch line whose closure in 1971 led to the formation of the preserved railway which is so successful today . |
| 10 | It is saying too little in that to ask for the reason for the validity of a consent to certain normative consequences is the same as to ask for the reason for recognizing a person as holding a certain right to bring about these consequences . |
| 11 | er in Spain , because we reckoned it was only donkey that went in that went into the er burro as they call it , went into the went into the soup , you know with the beans and er er er various types of lentils and so on . |
| 12 | Indeed , this chapter may also itself be seen as the result of feminist activity within sociology , in that analyses of the position of women in society are no longer confined to chapters on the family . |
| 13 | Benson and Hedges used to have similar problems with Wembley , in that reports of the tournament in America and Australia , for instance , inadvertently gave credit to their rivals . |
| 14 | A touring exhibition of 200 drawings covering the career of Joseph Beuys from 1936 until his death in 1986 opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , towards the end of this month ( 21 February-4 May ) . |
| 15 | FOUR musicians who began playing together at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986 play at the next Darlington Music Society concert on March 14 . |
| 16 | Although the precise aims and composition of RARA remained unclear , the organization appeared to have been formed in 1986 to protest against the " criminal policies " of the Netherlands authorities towards asylum seekers . |
| 17 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 18 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 19 | One of the early scenes of trouble was in Changsha , where students in 1980 protested about the lack of democracy in local elections . |
| 20 | They said that shortage of staff at the HSE meant that all the officers working on implementing the advisory committee 's proposals , which were published in October 1979 , were switched in 1980 to work on the EEC scheme . |
| 21 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 22 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 23 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 24 | Youngsters Dwight Yorke and Stephen Froggatt returned against Arsenal on Monday to help revitalise Villa 's flagging challenge and Atkinson is holding several more in reserve to throw into the Championship skirmish . |
| 25 | The proposal to change the law in 1925 came from the Scottish FA which , by coincidence , is drafting the measure which is likely to be put before the International Board , the game 's law-making body , during the World Cup next summer . |
| 26 | Belvedere Mill in 1439 belonged to the Manor of Bisley and was being worked by Alexander Robull . |
| 27 | The statute of Gloucester in 1278 with its fifteen chapters mainly concerned with land law ; of Acton Burnell in 1283 resolving some aspects of credit ; of Wales in 1284 extending to the newly conquered territory the advantages of English common law ; the statute of Merchants in 1285 drastically revising the statute of Acton Burnell ; the statute of Winchester in 1285 which was concerned to protect society from robbery and violence ; the statutes of Quo Warranto and Quia Emptores in 1290 which respectively clarified a resented enquiry and terminated subinfeudation : all these constitute a staggering corpus of law-making in a matter of fifteen years . |
| 28 | He preached in Portadown again in 1801 , and in 1802 preached within the uncovered walls of the new preaching house . |
| 29 | Neither Count Louis de Nevers , who died in 1346 fighting on the French side at Grécy , nor his successor Louis de Mâle supported the towns in their negotiations with Edward , and both remained loyal to their French suzerain despite the pressures which Edward brought to bear on Flanders . |
| 30 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |