Example sentences of "[adv] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our recruitment fell disastrously in 1976 with the consequence that a College decision was made to close the department and to phase out the courses that had been developed . |
| 2 | In the cottage he dumped her none too gently in one of the armchairs before the fire , pausing only to stir the embers back to life before stamping out towards the kitchen . |
| 3 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 4 | The report says that the site does not meet the criterion laid down in 1976 by the Institute of Geological Sciences for the disposal of radioactive waste , which requires the hydrogeology of a site to be " simple and determinable " . |
| 5 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 6 | She 's probably sitting down in one of the cloakrooms . |
| 7 | He did n't go home , but lay down in one of the rest rooms at the police station , asking to be called at once if there was any news . |
| 8 | Averting her gaze , Shiona sat down in one of the armchairs , smoothing the skirt of her dress over her knees . |
| 9 | I led him into the billiard room where I stoked the fire while he sat down in one of the leather chairs and began to remove his shoes . |
| 10 | He took a few steps away and sat down in one of the room 's elegant easy chairs . |
| 11 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 12 | She sat down in one of the box pews to the rear of the nave . |
| 13 | He became an MP in 1841 , immediately after leaving Cambridge , representing Maidstone as an independent Conservative until he stood down in 1852 in the hope of an Irish seat , but again represented Maidstone from 1857 until the General Election of 1859 . |
| 14 | Another version of this Trojan origin legend was written down in 727 by the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum . |
| 15 | Educational institutions had been closed down in 1988 at the height of the abortive student-led anti-government uprising [ see pp. 36221-24 ] . |
| 16 | Every morning , at an early hour , Amber and Resenence practised movements together in one of the dance courts . |
| 17 | There — breaking new ground in the capital of South Africa — more than 400 people , black , brown and white , lived and conferred together in one of the city 's best hotels . |
| 18 | The project never materialised owing to a federal moratorium on housing funds , but the two strands of building preservation and community involvement came together in 1979 with the incorporation of the MCC . |
| 19 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
| 20 | You should now be left with two acetate page markers , and everything else should be away in one of the binders , apart possibly from the dates . |
| 21 | The council bought a shop and the flat above in 1975 with a view , eventually , to demolishing it in order to extend Brighton Polytechnic . |
| 22 | Not in one of the rooms you 've lived in together . |
| 23 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 24 | Several old dwelling houses adjoined Ivamys but at the Guilder Lane corner was a small shop , taken over in 1922 by a Lancashire family called Farrer . |
| 25 | In fact , Diana 's indignation at Raine simmered for years until finally it boiled over in 1989 at the church rehearsal for her brother 's wedding to Victoria Lockwood , a successful model . |
| 26 | But his subsequent recordings — with the Boston Symphony in 1952 ( recently reissued on RCA ) , the Czech Philharmonic in 1957 ( not , as stated in the catalogue , 1967 — the date of Milhaud coupling ) , in appalling sound but a performance of an extraordinary and anguished intensity , in 1964 with the Orchestre National , and finally in 1967 with the Orchestre de Paris — are all impressive in their different ways . |
| 27 | The basic significance of this invention helped them to follow it rapidly in 1855 by the development of a unique precision gear cutting and dividing engine . |
| 28 | And although disagreeing in significant respects with Schwoerer , W. A. Speck concludes that significant inroads on the royal prerogative were made by the Revolution settlement , and that " the debate on the nature of the monarchy did end decisively in 1689 with the victory of those who argued that it was limited and mixed " . |
| 29 | formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows . |
| 30 | Cowley sat stiffly in one of the leather armchairs , not at all happy with what Hogan had just told him . |