Example sentences of "[num] and [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilden became senior science master at Clifton College , Bristol , in 1872 and was elected to the chair of chemistry at the newly founded Mason College in Birmingham ( later the University of Birmingham ) eight years later . |
| 2 | Charles Longuet Higgins died in 1885 and was buried in the family vault at Turvey . |
| 3 | The Manpower Services Commission was itself dissolved in 1985 and was replaced by a body which took over most of its functions , called the Training Commission . |
| 4 | Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 . |
| 5 | Curzon died at Kedleston 6 December 1804 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Nathaniel . |
| 6 | Bennet died in Chinley 24 May 1759 and was buried in the Presbyterian graveyard there . |
| 7 | He died at Stratton Street , Piccadilly , London , 10 April 1874 and was succeeded in the marquessate by his second son , Hubert George Canning de Burgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | He died at his Paris flat 19 April 1929 and was succeeded in the barony by his brother , Cecil ( born 1864 ) . |
| 9 | The first auction was held on Jan. 26 and was hailed as a great success . |
| 10 | After winning scholarships at Winchester and at Balliol College , Oxford , he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1924 and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls which he held till 1945 . |
| 11 | He graduated BA from University College London in 1840 , then studied law intermittently throughout the 1840s and was called to the bar in 1851 . |
| 12 | All 18 appeared before magistrates in Kampala on May 7 and were referred to the High Court . |
| 13 | The church was restored in 1948 and was refurnished with the organ from All Saints Church nearby . |
| 14 | Hotham died in Bognor 13 March 1799 and was buried in the local parish churchyard of South Bersted . |
| 15 | The Macintosh , on the other hand , uses the Motorola 68000 and was designed as a closed architecture . |
| 16 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 17 | He had been a non-executive director since September 1986 and was appointed to the LVMH Board of Directors in January 1989 . |
| 18 | This was the first operating profit since 1986 and was achieved in the face of continuing recession in our major markets and weaker exchange rates . |
| 19 | She has won European , Olympic and World titles , was unbeaten in a major championship since 1986 and was racing in a country which has a special place in her heart . |
| 20 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 21 | Stone was arrested on a charge of high treason on 3 May 1794 and was taken to the Tower of London . |
| 22 | He died at Shaftesbury on 12 November 1035 and was buried in the Old Minster Winchester . |
| 23 | After war work in France she moved to Oxford in 1920 and was inspired by the teaching of R. R. Marett [ q.v. ] to a distinction in her Oxford diploma in anthropology before returning to France with a Mary Ewart scholarship ( 1922–3 ) and introductions to leading archaeologists . |
| 24 | Born into a miner 's family in Gallarta in the Basque region in 1895 , she was a founder member of the Spanish Communist Party ( Partido Comunista de España — PCE ) in 1920 and was elected to the Cortes in 1936 , representing Asturias . |
| 25 | A Latin inscription on the ceiling high above the chancel tells how this church was built by Sir Christopher in 1682 , was destroyed by aerial bombardment in 1941 and was restored by the RAF in 1958 . |
| 26 | The Blackpool Civic Trust made the restoration of the car their special project for the Borough Centenary in 1976 , and accordingly the car returned in 1975 and was displayed on the Promenade opposite the Foxhall . |
| 27 | This situation changed with effect from 1983/84 and was embodied in the reissue of the Manual for Accounts ( 1986 ) . |
| 28 | The Ragusan republic fell to Napoleon in 1806 and was incorporated into the Illyrian Provinces between 1808 and 1814 . |
| 29 | A herdbook was first published in 1890 ; a joint breed society for the Kerry and related Dexter was formed in 1917 and was restricted to the Kerry alone in 1919 . |
| 30 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |