Example sentences of "in [adj] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose it must also have a public telephone that can be used in private and a post office that will send out mail ? |
| 2 | The mother of two children , a girl born in 1986 and a boy born in 1989 , was living with the father of the boy when both children suffered minor non-accidental injury . |
| 3 | Champion for a second time in 1983 , he teamed up with Nigel Mansell at Williams in 1986 and a year later was champion for the third time . |
| 4 | Fears of religious extremism were also revived by calls to turn the 6th century cathedral of St Sophia , converted into a mosque in 1453 and a museum since 1934 , into a mosque once more , and by attempts in April 1989 to introduce segregated bus services for women students in the city of Konya , 220 km south of Ankara , where fundamentalists controlled the local council . |
| 5 | Consumption of butter today was only half what it was in 1980 and a quarter of the 1970s figures , Dr Buss said . |
| 6 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 7 | Yuri Skokov , Secretary of the Security Council , was considered sympathetic to the nationalist cause ; Chernomyrdin , 54 , Soviet Minister of Gas in 1985-89 and a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1986-91 , was seen as representing the industrialists ' lobby , while Viktor Kadannikov , a relatively unknown figure , was manager of a large car plant ; deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko was a supporter of Gaidar . |
| 8 | The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 . |
| 9 | In Britain , the first census of modern times was begun in 1801 and a series of government reports resulted in various inquiries into the state of the nation . |
| 10 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 11 | In this and a variety of other tasks , Wannemacher and Ryan were able to distinguish ‘ incorrect ’ from ‘ opposite ’ responses . |
| 12 | It is a hardy , thrifty , long-lived mountain breed which was first recognised in 1856 ; a breed society was formed in 1895 and a herdbook established in 1926 . |
| 13 | Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years . |
| 14 | Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) . |
| 15 | The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year . |
| 16 | In order to maintain a close relationship with northern clients , a small office was opened in Manchester in 1985 and a Leeds office was opened in 1988 . |
| 17 | A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan . |
| 18 | For your records I would inform you that the name of this charitable organisation changed from ‘ Council ’ to ‘ Campaign ’ in 1991 and a copy of the relevant minute is attached . |
| 19 | Stutchbury was elected an associate of the Linnean Society in 1828 and a fellow of the Geological Society in 1841 . |
| 20 | He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 . |
| 21 | They were married in 1682 and two children were born to them : Georg August ( the future George II ) in 1683 and a daughter . |
| 22 | Assad Pasha al-Azem was governor of Hama in 1700 and a descendant became prime minister of Syria . |
| 23 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 24 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was followed by a Local Government Commissioner in 1969 and a Health Service Commissioner four years later . |
| 25 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 26 | In another moment she saw Ferdinando waiting in Rome , standing on the doorstep , his arms open in welcome and a welcome most of all for Annunciata . |
| 27 | The Quintín Lame Movement , an indigenous guerrilla movement founded in 1984 and a member of the CNGSB , formally disarmed and demobilized its estimated 130 members on May 31 . |
| 28 | The Bank has been fortunate in that during this time we have been associated with a Grand Slam in 1984 and a share of the Five Nations Championship in 1986 . |
| 29 | An executive share option scheme was first introduced in 1980 followed by an Inland Revenue approved executive scheme in 1984 and a savings related scheme for UK employees in 1990 . |
| 30 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |