Example sentences of "[adj] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 2 | Somewhere , high in one of the elm trees , a lonely bird sang its own hymn for the dead . |
| 3 | now if someone therefore becomes interested in one of the developments , would they be any doubt buying the houses without having a solicitors assistance ? |
| 4 | In the paper the other day it said that Leeds were interested in one of the goalkeepers from the lower divisions — Beresford ( from Burnley , I think ) . |
| 5 | One section untouched in 1991 by the recession appears to be the playing fraternity . |
| 6 | He also spoke eloquently in the House of Commons early in 1955 of the value of invulnerable thermo-nuclear systems to both East and West . |
| 7 | Although hundreds of identified Spitfires are recorded in the book as having been transported to Malta either in their holds or openly on the decks of many named cargo ships , it was interesting to note that the Author could find no mention in Spitfire — The History of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp nor of the serialled Spitfires it transported to the Mediterranean in 1942 for the defence of Malta . |
| 8 | European defence co-operation had been made less likely in 1973 by the admission of neutral Eire to the EC . |
| 9 | In the 27 normal and disease control biopsy specimens , three ( 11.1% ; one group A , two group O ) showed ( very weak ) staining of hepatocytes with anti-A antibody and six ( 22% ; three group A , two group O , one group AB ) , showed ( weak ) staining with anti-B , which was focal in two of the cases . |
| 10 | The High Court in Bristol has been hearing how Mr Hayward became seriously ill in 1989 with a tumour caused by asbestos in his lungs . |
| 11 | It was against this background that he fell seriously ill in 1881 during the writing of A Laodicean , and after ten years of moving between London and small Dorset towns such as Swanage and Sturminster Newton came to see the solution to all his problems in a final return to Dorchester . |
| 12 | The leading peasant made us welcome in one of the peasant houses , where the same sort of ritual took place — long speeches , Chairman Mao , Chairman Hua , jin and mu , but with homely humour thrown in now and then . |
| 13 | Cock fights , however , are still legal in six of the United States , perhaps because we still eat chicken regularly , but no longer dogs . |
| 14 | I was present in 1983 during the clearance of the vaults beneath St Marylebone parish church when the coffin of a two-year-old boy , who had died in 1815 , was opened . |
| 15 | If an additive is present in one of the ingredients but serves no real function in the final product , it need not be declared . |
| 16 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
| 17 | Connie B. was married in 1917 at the age of 28 and left the trade . |
| 18 | The hospital involved in one of the deaths says the birthing pool was n't to blame |
| 19 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 20 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |
| 21 | McCrea was asleep in one of the armchairs . |
| 22 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 23 | Gleizes and Le Fauconnier became friendly in 1909 after a meeting at the home of a young socialist writer named Alexandre Mercereau , where Gleizes also met Metzinger and Delaunay for the first time in the following year , although these meetings did not lead to immediate friendship , and Gleizes knew little about their work . |
| 24 | He turned professional in 1973 under the management of Terry Lawless . |
| 25 | While the Consumer Credit Act licensing system imposed a restraint on credit traders and provided for criminal and financial sanctions against unlicensed trading , the Association was concerned in 1985 at the minority of creditors who were either unaware of , or careless of the existence of , the licensing system . |
| 26 | They were to elect , as members of the Committee , four verderers , who were required to be resident in one of the forest parishes . |
| 27 | The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders . |
| 28 | The fans and musical instruments which become recurrent themes in the still lifes were part of the equipment or decoration of many typical advanced studios in Montmartre ; Braque who had been responsible in 1908 for the introduction of musical iconography into Cubist painting was furthermore seriously interested in music . |
| 29 | State-of-the-art visual equipment complements our extensive facilities , with up-to-the-minute computer links available in two of the lecture theatres . |
| 30 | Thornburgh , 58 , a former two-term Governor of Pennsylvania , was appointed Attorney General in 1988 following the resignation of Edwin Meese in the face of investigation for financial and ethical misconduct . |