Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These treasures came to Elias Ashmole in 1678 on the death of Hester , Tradescant Jnr 's widow , and eventually formed the nucleus of the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford . |
| 2 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 3 | In 1951 the World Peace Pagoda was built , and in 1954 the Sixth Great InternatIonal Council of Buddhist monks and learned laity was opened ( the fifth had been at Mandalay in 1871 under the patronage of King Mindon ) . |
| 4 | Since making his debut against Pakistan in 1978–79 as a 19-year-old , he has never missed a Test through injury , a truly remarkable performance for a fast bowler . |
| 5 | She died in Hinton in 1779 at the age of 81 [ Baker , 1 , 638 ] . |
| 6 | It was built by Lord Williams of Thame in 1540 as a hunting lodge beside the once busy Roman road from Dorchester to Bicester . |
| 7 | ‘ I joined the Argyll 's in Paisley in 1939 at the age of 16 , I told them I was 17 ! |
| 8 | He joined LASMO in 1989 following the acquisition of Thomson North Sea where he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed a director of LASMO in January 1990 . |
| 9 | The 29-year-old from Sydney first came to the United States in 1981 for the world junior championship and won it . |
| 10 | His mother came from an aristocratic background in Transylvania and had quit Hungary in 1956 for the United States . |
| 11 | ABJECTION , Melancholia and Love is , with three additions , the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Warwick in 1957 on the works of Julia Kristeva . |
| 12 | The most important conscious attempt to solve the succession problem was made by Leopold Senghor in Senegal , who successfully handed over the presidency to Abdou Diop in 1980 after the re-introduction of a multi-party system in 1977 . |
| 13 | The chapter opens by recalling that the term ‘ industrial democracy ’ was first used by the Webbs in 1897 as the title of their book on the structure and functions of trade unions . |
| 14 | Born in the Dominican Republic , Enriqueta left for Nicaragua in 1980 with a group of women inspired by the revolutionary programme of the Sandinistas . |
| 15 | He finally graduated from the University of Erlangen in 1779 at the age of twenty-four . |
| 16 | Led by Trude Unruh , 64 , the chair of the Grey Panthers who had been elected to the Bundestag in 1987 on the Greens ' list , the party 's main concerns were to be campaigning for better pensions and for better conditions in nursing homes and countering " ageist " attitudes . |
| 17 | Both were assassinated in Washington in 1976 by a car bomb [ see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; 37709 ; 37914 ] . |
| 18 | Ann Ridler joined the CNAA in 1969 as an assistant to Jean Rossiter , Senior Assistant Registrar for Arts and Social Studies , and became Assistant Registrar ( the first appointment with that title in the CNAA ) in that area in 1971 , and Senior Assistant Registrar in 1973 — a title commuted for all its holders to Registrar in 1976 . |
| 19 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 20 | He died in Leamington in 1945 at the age of 87 . |
| 21 | Disneyland in California , was opened by Walt in 1955 on the back of his popular cartoons . |
| 22 | Brooks 's curling drive brought an equally adept save from Carter , while Coleman 's thumping shot skimmed over — after Blissett had quick-wittedly overrun the ball as it came over from Shearer in one of the home team 's brightest moves . |
| 23 | There was an article on Frank in one of the papers in the last few days , I 'll see if I can dig it out . |
| 24 | LORD JUSTICE BUTLER-SLOSS said that the husband , who was a Yugoslav , arrived in England in 1966 at the age of 23 with a small sum of money in his pocket . |
| 25 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 26 | The ‘ higher criticism ’ , examining the Bible as one would any other ancient text , only impinged on the Church of England in 1860 with the publication of Essays and Reviews by various authors including Frederick Temple and Benjamin Jowett . |
| 27 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 28 | With the establishing in Aberdeen in 1993 of the Hub for the new ORION Satellite DGPS positioning system there are additional opportunities to grow this business unit further . |
| 29 | This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana . |
| 30 | Contrary to popular belief , it seems that a successful imported batsman , from Majid Khan at Glamorgan in 1969 through the likes of Asif , Kanhai , Richards , McEwan , Border , Kick ( un-English-qualified as he then was ) and Haynes to Salim Malik at Essex last year , makes all the difference . |