Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city . |
| 2 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 3 | The Anderton Lift , constructed in 1875 and reconstructed in 1908 , on the Weaver Canal was , indeed , most spectacular — and still is — but not one whit more ingenious than the lift at Foxton . |
| 4 | Sir Charles Robinson bought the estate in 1875 and developed it , naming the new roads as Cluny , St Vast , Stafford , Exeter and Taunton . |
| 5 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 6 | The three and a half mile line running between Hammersmith and Riddings Junction with intermediate stations at Butterley and Swanwick Junction was originally opened in 1875 and acquired by the Midland at a later date . |
| 7 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 8 | It was built in 1875 and consists of two wrought-iron tanks or caissons in which boats are raised and lowered by a system of counterbalance , electricity replacing the original steam-powered hydraulic pumps . |
| 9 | Organised by Janet Barnes , Keeper of the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield , the show draws on the collection of the Gallery which Ruskin founded in 1875 and called the St George 's Museum . |
| 10 | Legislation which made official Jewish equality of citizenship rights was passed in the Norddeutschen Bund in 1869 and extended to a united Germany in 1871 . |
| 11 | He was born in Wales in 1771 but served his apprenticeship in Stamford at the drapery business of James McGuffog , where he stayed for three years , originally at 31 High Street and later on St. Mary 's Street . |
| 12 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 13 | If failure to attract a willing partner leads some men to choose an unwilling one , or if , having failed repeatedly in the sexual stakes , such men find redress in humiliating and punishing one emblematic woman for the inaccessibility of all women , then society has failed in its role of socialising the male sex drive at its point of maximum danger and loss of control . |
| 14 | In ‘ 91-'92 the scum lost six games in total but failed to win the championship ( we all know who did ! ) . |
| 15 | Put smaller amounts into any specialist funds which appeal to you but not too much in total and plot their performances . |
| 16 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
| 17 | The brewer is required to release 2,250 pubs in total and has already sold 950 . |
| 18 | This reflected Parliament 's concern that such persons , presumed still to be innocent of any crime , should be further deprived of their liberty only in narrow and defined circumstances . |
| 19 | The ‘ Wingfield Castle ’ was built in Hartlepool in 1934 and spent its working life as the Hull-New Holland ferry , or visit the HMS Trincomalee , the oldest British warship afloat , moored in the new Hartlepool Marina development . |
| 20 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 21 | The Baltic Council ( comprising Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , first formed in 1934 and revived in May 1990 — see p. 37462 ) sought to develop economic ties with the Nordic Council ( founded in the early 1950s and comprising Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden ) . |
| 22 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 23 | This kick is not worth covering in detail since it invariably comes in low and catches the opponent in the groin , and thus rarely scores . |
| 24 | We are at the at where Shrewsbury Town of the third division lead premiership Blackburn by three goals to two , but Blackburn now moving forward , getting it across , it breaks back to drives it in low and left footed and that one is off the target , a shot driven in from twenty five yards by , not finding the goal . |
| 25 | EXCEPT the architect build the house they labour in vain that build it . |
| 26 | If their vanity in pursuit of the prize should carry them away , they will be suitably chastised in the words of Psalm 124 : ‘ Except the Lord shall build the house , they labour in vain that build it . ’ |
| 27 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 28 | Veblen 's central thesis was that emulation took the form of engaging in a conspicuous way in honorific as opposed to merely useful pursuits . |
| 29 | The Musée Barbier-Mueller is devoting an exhibition to the art of the Solomon Islands , discovered by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568 and thought to house King Solomon 's Mines . |
| 30 | Opposite its entrance is the High Synagogue , completed in 1568 and paid for by the mayor of the ghetto , Mordechai Maizl . |