Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lists also show that the Elizabethan era was a period of considerable economic change as the woolstaplers were replaced by the butchers and the tanners ; cattle rather than sheep became the basis of local wealth , especially after 1541 when the disappearance of the Wyggestons removed a family which had dominated the town 's economy for two or three generations . |
| 2 | The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter . |
| 3 | Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division . |
| 4 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 5 | This is bad but , for all the anxiety , it does not bear comparison with the jolts of the mid-1970s and the early 1980s , let alone with 1929–31 when the value of British exports almost halved . |
| 6 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 7 | It began in 1756 when a fellow of the Royal Society called James Dodson had a problem . |
| 8 | He eventually capitalized on his knowledge of Europe by publishing in 1796 both a set of five maps of the Rhine , Meuse , and Scheldt and a survey entitled A Developement of the Views and Designs of the French Nation , which sought to warn the English of certain French activities . |
| 9 | ‘ This all started in 1986 when a handful of residents got together and decided to take action to get better homes . |
| 10 | This means that the cities of France are under-represented and there is a considerable right-wing majority , three-quarters in 1986 when the rest of France voted 52 per cent for the right . |
| 11 | A major change was made in 1980 when the policy of the Department of Health and Social Security in administering supplementary benefit was reduced to detailed secondary legislation , so that the supplementary benefit scheme is now as rooted in statutory provisions as the national insurance benefits . |
| 12 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 13 | Thus in 1802 when a group of spahis called on the Serbs to join them in resisting the dayis very few Serbs responded . |
| 14 | From 1985 onwards a number of additional formidable barriers to progress towards a coherent , integrated under-fives policy began to emerge . |
| 15 | the Victoria County History goes so far as to suggest that the early nineteenth century prosperity of Leicester , based partly on the transport of hosiery goods by canal to London was ‘ probably due in no small degree to the fact that from 1802 onwards the development of communication had largely been completed . ’ |
| 16 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 17 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 18 | Halling Church remained a small building with a low spire until 1877 when the whole of the nave was rebuilt . |
| 19 | Over the years these monastic institutions acquired a particular expertise in the embalming of bodies , an example of their handiwork being discovered in 1969 when the coffin of Archbishop Godfrey de Ludham ( d. 1265 ) was opened in York Minster . |
| 20 | They are the latest development in an initiative which began in 1975 when a group of industry representatives launched the Site Management Education and Training Scheme . |
| 21 | The opportunity for unification came in 1859 when the Kingdom of Sardinia — the island of Sardinia itself , together with Piedmont , Savoy and territory around Nice — sided with France in a war against Austria . |
| 22 | This requirement was made explicit in 1946 when the Bank of England was nationalized . |
| 23 | It was saved in 1962 when a group of enthusiasts , led by Dean Hughes , formed a committee to organise the event . |
| 24 | It began in 1976 when a team of three educationists was appointed . |
| 25 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 26 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 27 | The right to be relieved in one 's parish , perhaps as much as aversion to the workhouse as an institution , lay behind riots in Suffolk in 1765 where a practice of building large workhouses to serve several parishes had been developing since a private enabling statute had been obtained in 1756 . |
| 28 | One of the most infamous of all football riots took place in Glasgow in 1909 when a crowd of around 6,000 invaded the pitch at full time . |
| 29 | Only occasionally did this local sentiment prove stronger than loyalty to the nation , as in 1489 when the levy of taxation for the distant Breton War led to a Yorkshire rising , in which the earl of Northumberland was murdered , and in 1497 when the Cornishmen rebelled against the payment of a subsidy for war with Scotland ( 73 , pp.14 , 15 ) . |
| 30 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |