Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 3 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 4 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 5 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 6 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 7 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
| 8 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
| 9 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 10 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 11 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 12 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 13 | In 1609 he completed an English translation of a treatise De Potestate Papae , but the Jesuit general refused to allow its publication . |
| 14 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 15 | His first patent was taken out in 1875 ; he constructed dynamometers which won a medal at the 1878 Paris exhibition ; and in 1879 he invented the liquid microphone . |
| 16 | In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph . |
| 17 | In 1825 he used an artesian tube to sink what was then the largest well known in the country , eighty feet deep and thirty feet wide . |
| 18 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 20 | On May 26 he won the Darbakalan by-election , easily defeating his Congress ( I ) opponent by 53,000 votes . |
| 21 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 22 | In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share . |
| 23 | In 77/78 he relinquished the hot seat to former Grundle Ferry Dynamo boss , Roy Alderman , and then the following season to Rabbi Lionel Cohen , who never attended a Saturday match on religious grounds . |
| 24 | With the introduction of the Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician magazine in 1898 he became a regular contributor and was a founder-member of the Society of Model Engineers . |
| 25 | In 1898 he presented the fine site overlooking Aberystwyth on which the National Library of Wales was built . |
| 26 | In 1888 he joined a Wild West circus and toured the United States for about two years , then sailed to England and established a music-hall act as a sharpshooter . |
| 27 | In 1888 he published a definitive edition of his own texts in Hymns Original and Translated . |
| 28 | In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop , John Stratford , his pallium . |
| 29 | In 1984 he married a French woman , and the following year travelled to France to try his hand at the colour photography which seemed so popular in European magazines . |
| 30 | In his Collins lecture of 1984 he described the cultural authoritarianism of Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language , whose acuity and precision of definition should not blind us to the fact that ‘ it accomplished the reduction of the language to the written and the written to the literary . ’ |