Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Salibi reasons this is because Nebuchanezzar in 586 BC put an end to this Jewish enclave in lands that eventually were to become the heartland of Mohammed the Prophet . |
| 2 | On the economic front Gorbachev in particular also stressed the importance of the trade agreement as well as several other agreements with US firms in helping to transform the Soviet economy . |
| 3 | The discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929 completely changed the discussion about its origin . |
| 4 | The mandate for prayers of thanks for the capture of Caen in 1346 also ordered the publication of the king 's itinerary ‘ for the comfort and consolation … of the entire English people ’ . |
| 5 | The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny , rich and greedy elite around him . |
| 6 | A move to Wight with hostile intent against the Normans in 1022 also appears the less plausible because the eventual worsening of Cnut 's relations with the duchy ( see below ) is not known to have preceded Richard II 's death in 1026 . |
| 7 | The army with which Cnut eventually conquered England in 1016 also included a number of these largely independent warlords . |
| 8 | The abdication of Miloš in 1839 temporarily interrupted the payment of the pension , but the new government eventually continued it . |
| 9 | A declaration by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz on a visit to Qatar in 1984 probably reflected the atmosphere of GCC deliberations at the time . |
| 10 | The slaughter of around 30,000 peasants in the aftermath of a revolt in El Salvador in 1932 virtually eliminated the indigenous Salvadoreans . |
| 11 | Derain in particular soon acquired a large number of excellent pieces . |
| 12 | A well-known example from earlier in this century of a Law Lord speaking on a political matter in the House of Lords arose when Lord Carson in 1921 strongly attacked the proposal to establish an Irish Free State . |
| 13 | In particular Siemens and Philips in 1987/8 both had an annual turnover in the region of $25 billion ; this was approximately a third more than that of British Telecom . |
| 14 | This should not be exaggerated : the Spartan Lichas ( Thuc. viii.39 ) has the Cyrenaean patronymic Arkesilas ( cp. too p. 189f. for Pharax and Lysander ) ; and a remarkable passage in Herodotus ( ix.76f. ) makes Fausanias the Regent in 479 BC acknowledge a xenia ( guest-friendship ) with a man from Kos in the Dodecanese . |