Example sentences of "autumn of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer and autumn of 1348 the Black Death swept through France and southern England , and moved steadily northwards and westwards to reach Scotland and Ireland by the following year . |
| 2 | In the autumn of 1938 the District appointed Edmund Poole as its Organising Secretary for Norfolk and Norwich . |
| 3 | By the early autumn of 1922 the Soviet government put the number at 22 million , or about one-third of the population of the RSFSR . |
| 4 | In the autumn of 1991 the Bush administration showed no interest in health care reform . |
| 5 | By the autumn of 1987 a seminal document , A Plan To Win , had been produced and endorsed by London 's Labour Executive . |
| 6 | In the autumn of 1950 the French put forward the Pleven Plan , their aim being to ensure that any German forces were split into small units and integrated within a European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " . |
| 8 | In the autumn of 1924 the general election reduced the Liberal Party to a pitiable number of MPs . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 10 | From the autumn of 1916 the politics of the war underwent a series of rapid transformations . |
| 11 | In the Autumn of 1992 a 5 day course in leadership and team-building was held at Outward Bound , Ullswater . |
| 12 | By the autumn of 1935 the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( and Hector Charlesworth ) were replaced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a Director-General brought over from London in the person of W.E . |
| 13 | In the autumn of 1983 every health authority received from the DHSS a package of 147 indicators in book form to enable them to compare their performance against others on a regional and national basis on a range of quantitative measures . |
| 14 | In the autumn of 1811 a young woman named Mary Flint was admitted to the infirmary after she had been savagely beaten by a man named John Field , in whose house she was a servant . |
| 15 | By the autumn of 1946 the Chiefs of Staff on both sides of the Atlantic were assuming that the two nations would work together in the event of a global war . |
| 16 | A founder in 1913 of the Anglo-Hellenic League , he wrote numerous articles supporting Greek territorial claims and upholding Venizelos in his feud with King Constantine I. With R. W. Seton-Watson [ q.v. ] , a colleague at King 's , Burrows formulated in the autumn of 1915 the unsuccessful scheme , which was taken up by the Foreign Office , to lure Greece into the war of 1914–18 on the side of the entente through the offer of Cyprus . |
| 17 | In the autumn of 1915 the Government had assumed powers to requisition at fixed prices all cereal products ; in 1916 these powers were extended to sugar , milk and eggs , but only limited use was made of them . |
| 18 | As early as the autumn of 1953 the US National Security Council was coming to accept that the situation in Eastern Europe was unlikely to change in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | In the autumn of 1990 a problem developed between M and other board members . |
| 20 | By the autumn of 1967 the British government itself could no longer avoid the issue of devaluation . |
| 21 | In the autumn of 1969 the book on the Americans was published in London and New York under the title Very Lovely People ( from a remark of President Johnson to some White House visitors — ‘ Mrs Johnson and I are very happy to have you here , and we think you are all very lovely people ’ ) . |
| 22 | But by the autumn of 1969 the migrants dominated events . |
| 23 | In the autumn of 1355 the Black Prince led an expedition from Bordeaux towards France 's Mediterranean coast . |
| 24 | During the autumn of 1984 THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE demonstrated the new topographical photography of the 1980s . |
| 25 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 26 | In the autumn of 1978 the manager of the canteen at the Occidental Petroleum plant at Zuwaitina — — a canteen run by a subsidiary of Grand Metropolitan Hotels Ltd — received a consignment of fifty-five gross of tins of processed milk . |
| 27 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 28 | By the autumn of 1788 a number of local committees were established but the process seems not to have seriously breached Wilberforce 's guidelines . |
| 29 | In the autumn of 1428 the English , under one of their most notable commanders , Thomas , earl of Salisbury , besieged the town . |
| 30 | Back in the autumn of 1968 a version of the traditional folk tune gave Mary Hopkin a British number one and had a lengthy run of more than five months in the charts . |