Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this group which brought Murat round to the idea of a new constitution and who co-operated with Napoleon in that masterpiece of enlightened despotism , the Constitution of Bayonne . |
| 2 | He emerged as president of France as Prince Louis Napoleon in eighteen forty eight and he er he erm achieves power by coup d'etat and becomes emperor in eighteen fifty two . |
| 3 | Just as Napoleon in 1804 , Henry VI might well in time have had Europe at his feet . |
| 4 | They remained popular in the West throughout the Middle Ages and even continued to be used by the supreme tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition by Napoleon in 1806 . |
| 5 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 6 | From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family . |
| 7 | The Ragusan republic fell to Napoleon in 1806 and was incorporated into the Illyrian Provinces between 1808 and 1814 . |
| 8 | Mark Twain , for example , who went to see the Great Exhibition of 1867 , wrote : ‘ ( I saw ) Napoleon in military uniform — long-bodied , short-legged man , fiercely moustached , old , wrinkled , with eyes half-closed and such a deep crafty scheming expression about them . ’ |
| 9 | The international pre-eminence the country had enjoyed since defeating Napoleon in 1812 was brought to an abrupt end by the Crimean War ( 1853–56 ) . |
| 10 | His humiliation was smaller than that to which the country had been subjected on being invaded by Napoleon in 1812 , but so was the likelihood that Russia would be able to reverse her defeat in the near future . |
| 11 | These frontiers held with minor changes until the republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1808 . |
| 12 | Elena Ceauşescu in particular was surprisingly superstitious for a scientist . |
| 13 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |
| 14 | They are to be marketed by Korg in this country and feature bodies and necks built to the original design , but allied to American pickups and hardware and retailing from between £750 and £1,000 . |
| 15 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 16 | Track relaying in Lord Street , Fleetwood in 1951 , with the Fleetwood Box-car on Works duties , while the passing railcoach is bound for South Promenade . |
| 17 | Heavy snowfalls at Fleetwood in 1940 left these cars stranded . |
| 18 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 19 | Yahaya , who was among 160 people arrested after riots in Katsina in northern Nigeria [ see p. 38135-36 ] , received an 18-month prison term , while his followers received terms of between six and nine months . |
| 20 | The chasm between her and the other writers is most apparent in comments she made at the ‘ Nouveau roman : hier , aujourd'hui ’ conference at Cerisy in 1972 , in which she clung resolutely to her conviction of the existence of a pre-verbal , extra-textual reality in mental life . |
| 21 | Pal Csernai , a Hungarian in charge of Bayern Munich when they won the Bundesliga in 1980 and ‘ 81 , takes over until the end of the season . |
| 22 | They are much less happy about the emergence of an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq , which might then become an inspiration for Iran 's own Kurdish separatists . |
| 23 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 24 | Knut Hamsun in Old Age |
| 25 | When Mozart played a piano by Stein in 1777 , it did not jangle , even though there was no check . |
| 26 | I never met him , but my brother and I had a glimpse of him at Paddington in 1940 , when he took Ivy and Margaret to Woodstock . |
| 27 | Stress : A study done by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe in 1967 identified stress-provoking times , which Holmes and Rahe called Life Events . |
| 28 | These treasures came to Elias Ashmole in 1678 on the death of Hester , Tradescant Jnr 's widow , and eventually formed the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . |
| 29 | Mr Stevens , 68 , served aboard the light cruiser HMS Scylla in 1943 ferrying supplies to the Russians and keeping German submarines at bay . |
| 30 | The daughter of Olivia Shakespear , who had been briefly Yeats 's mistress and had bought Wyndham Lewis 's canvases and Gaudier 's drawings , Dorothy told Hugh Kenner in 1965 , ‘ I read poetry only with difficulty . |