Example sentences of "[noun] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already one of the trumpeters-in-ordinary from 30 March 1688 , he seems to have joined the court band as a musician-in-ordinary in 1695 ; he became serjeant-trumpeter in 1707 on the death of William Shore , his uncle or , less probably , brother , and he lived to serve George II . |
| 2 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
| 5 | Initially delivered to the RAAF it was sold in 1946 to the Tasmanian Aero Club then passed to South Australia Aerial Spraying in 1954 as a crop duster . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a light in one of the rooms and we 've heard voices , , said Melissa . |
| 7 | In order to reach the post-box she had , of course , to pass Upmeadow Farm , and she saw that there was a light in one of the downstairs rooms . |
| 8 | The Lombard Scheme was given a major boost in 1992 through the graduation of its first 31 MBAs . |
| 9 | The deal which covers nine colour pages for Nike Cross Trainers in six of the title 's editions , was put together despite the absence of a formal pan-European rate card and that Cosmo is published by independents in three of the countries . |
| 10 | Aspdin set up a partnership in 1824 with a neighbour as ‘ patent Portland cement manufacturers ’ , operating from Leeds and Wakefield and later expanded to an agency at Liverpool . |
| 11 | We have seen how Labour made its re-emergence as a governing force in 1964 on the basis of a need for sweeping ‘ modernisation ’ and planning , pulling together a support bloc spanning the left and managerial technocrats , and how the expectations raised in the early Wilson period were substantially frustrated . |
| 12 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 13 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 14 | A parliamentary deputy since 1953 , he was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies in 1969 and from this post was elected President in 1978 at the age of 81 . |
| 15 | As soon as you start writing original work , register the copyrights in one of the ways already outlined . |
| 16 | An illustration of this can be found in cross-examination of a defendant in one of the trials we considered in the court files : Prosecutor : Why did n't you ask her if she was prepared to have intercourse with you ? |
| 17 | On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings . |
| 18 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 19 | The effect , even at this early stage , has been impressive — a turnround from a £19m loss in 1991 to a £21.9m profit in 1992 . |
| 20 | Some of these came from the Duke of Buckingham 's important collection , bought at auction in 1648 by the archduke Leopold Vilém , brother of the emperor . |
| 21 | The LGC has seen a number of fundamental changes over the past few years , not least its relocation in 1989 from the south bank of the Thames in central London to its present plush premises next to the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington , Middlesex . |
| 22 | Later , as capitalist work relations and practices were successfully implemented , rural labour organised a national union ; but it was built upon unsure foundations and , significantly , Essex witnessed its crushing defeat in 1874 at the hands of local farmers . |
| 23 | AST is set to hit $1 billion in revenue in 1992 despite the recession , according the Michael Krieger , AST 's director of advanced systems marketing . |
| 24 | A very useful addition is the communications room created between the two halls in 1978–1979 at a cost of £619.69 . |
| 25 | The CCP itself was experiencing a traumatic period in its development between the break in cooperation with the Kuomintang in 1927 to the retreat from Kiangsi in 1934–35 in the ‘ Long March ’ when Mao Tse-tung assumed the leadership of the CCP . |
| 26 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 27 | The group was charged with the murder in 1987 of a taxi driver and of a Moslem cleric of moderate views . |
| 28 | He had been accused of the murder in 1976 of a tobacco industrialist and a police inspector . |
| 29 | While playing in Pittsburgh , Muni had met Judge M. A. Musmanno , who had written a book on the murder in 1929 of a miner 's leader and of the subsequent charges against policemen . |
| 30 | Fazle Haq , who had been accused of complicity in the murder in 1988 of a Shia leader while he was caretaker Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province ( NWFP ) [ see p. 37151 ] . |