Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water .
2 By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court .
3 In March 1886 she became a columnist for the Illustrated London News , writing the Ladies ' Notes , a post which she held until 1918 .
4 It is no wonder that in March 1943 he was suffering from fatigue which again brought on influenza .
5 During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain .
6 Romero 's beliefs and bravery , however , cost him his life for on 27 March 1980 he , too , was assassinated by a professional hit-man hired by the extreme right .
7 In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president .
8 On March 12 it was announced that Egypt and Iran had each decided to set up an " interests office " in the other 's capital " as a first step towards the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two countries " , according to Arab Republic of Egypt radio .
9 On March 12 it was announced that legislative elections postponed in December would be held on May 24 ; it was later announced that the number of representatives in the National Assembly would be increased from 77 to 107 .
10 In March 1801 he announced that Hartley was ‘ overthrown ’ and that ‘ Newton was a mere materialist .
11 In March 1903 she and Augustus had a joint exhibition at Carfax & Co. , London ; she had already acquired the reputation of working extremely slowly , and contributed only three pictures to her brother 's forty-five .
12 In March 1993 we announced our intention to offer for sale our interests in the Markham field , and adjacent uncontracted discoveries , proceeds from which will improve our financial position in 1993 .
13 On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia .
14 On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together .
15 He joined the group planning a Puritan colony and in March 1630 he was named secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Company .
16 This appeal went unheard , and by early March 1392 he was being sought in Wales .
17 On March 2 it was announced that a new Committee for Employment and Emigration would assist the Foreign Ministry in exploring openings for Albanians to work abroad .
18 In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later .
19 By Edward VI he was made ‘ Vice Admiral of the King 's ships in the West Seas ’ , and his remains lie in the nearby church of Stratton , where a brass plate depicts the knight , his wife and their twelve children .
20 In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director .
21 On the evening of Jan. 12 it was announced that the existing six-member High Security Council had that day , by virtue of a mandate to preserve continuity given it by the Constitutional Council , resolved " that it is impossible to continue the election process until the necessary conditions are fulfilled for the normal functioning of institutions " .
22 In return for financial help to King Afonso V he was renaturalized as a Portuguese subject in August 1479 and given trading privileges .
23 On Jan. 22 it was reported that the government had ordered a tightening of security at the prison holding Pablo Escobar amid reports that he had been able to continue running his drug cartel through visitors .
24 At a hearing on Jan. 30 it was announced that retrial on the outstanding charges would begin on March 9 .
25 On Jan. 30 it was reported that Hernando de Soto , a key adviser and personal representative of Fujimori , had resigned , alleging that officials in coca-growing areas were co-operating with drug traffickers .
26 In surviving the conspicuous favour of Edward II in order to go on to win that of Edward III he had followed a course unusual enough to suggest both his high abilities and his political dexterity .
27 He had returned to Poland on Jan. 4 to answer the charge , and on Jan. 7 it was reported that a lesser charge was being substituted because prosecutors had ruled that Tyminski had attacked Mazowiecki as a rival candidate rather than as the holder of state office .
28 On Jan. 7 she declared her intention to contest the presidency , and expressed the hope that she could forge a united opposition coalition .
29 On Jan. 17 the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) welcomed " the start of military operations to liberate Kuwait " and on Jan. 26 it reaffirmed the " international legitimacy " of all UN resolutions [ see also p. 37927-28 ] .
30 But after Richard III we would have second thoughts ; after Iago we might begin to doubt whether anyone could ever be trusted again .
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