Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 3 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 4 | The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands . |
| 5 | Exiled abroad for opposing the 1964 military coup , Prestes returned to Brazil from Moscow in 1979 when the ban on opposition parties was lifted . |
| 6 | Hastings will be the fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War in succession to the late Arthur Smith in South Africa in 1962 ; Mike Campbell-Lamerton in New Zealand in 1966 and Finlay Calder in Australia in 1989 when the combination of a Scotland captain and coach ended triumphant . |
| 7 | In households in Great Britain in 1988 where the head of the household was aged 65 or over , 47.5% were owner occupiers without a mortgage and 4.5% with a mortgage , 40% were renting from a council or housing association and 8.5% were renting from private landlords . |
| 8 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 9 | A further step was taken at Birmingham in 1930 when the Conference instructed the National Administrative Council : to reconstruct the ILP Parliamentary Group on the basis of acceptance of the policy of the ILP as laid down by decisions of Annual Conference and as interpreted by the NAC. and to limit endorsements of future ILP Parliamentary candidates to nominees who accept this basis . |
| 10 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His dismissal as " number two " in the party hierarchy was described as part of the PS policy of " renewal and openness " in a communiqué issued by the executive committee , itself created by Collin in 1989 when the PS was restructured , in a bid to secure his and Diouf 's position against opposition from within the party [ see p. 36519 ] . |
| 13 | The first visions to distort this mirage had appeared on the southern border of Lebanon or from the sea off Beirut in 1946 when the Covenant was barely three years old . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They include Willem de Ridder 's ‘ European Mail-Order Warehouse/Fluxshop ’ ( 1964–65 ) ; Ben Vautier 's ‘ Living Sculpture ’ , originally constructed for a Fluxus festival in London in 1962 when the artist inhabited a gallery window for fifteen days ; and a Flux-Labyrinth , a tactile obstacle course originally created in Berlin in 1976 . |
| 16 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 17 | One of the earlier manifestations of pressurisation hazards was the Comet 1 accident near Rome in 1954 when a fatigue crack was found to have propagated from a cut-out in the top of the fuselage designed to accommodate the automatic direction finder aerial system . |
| 18 | Now this means that erm putting it in its simplest way that for any of the districts in North Yorkshire and for Harrogate and if I may presume to say so in Selby in particular where the need is greatest , the local authorities must have the ability to designate what is provocatively called green field land , if they so wish in their local plan , proper consultations and strategic policies , they must have that freedom to do that if they are to be able to offer in their district land which will prove attractive to erm employment generating uses . |