Example sentences of "in [num] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ .
2 The province 's Indian population received a setback in its quest for greater autonomy , however , when the Canadian Supreme Court on Aug. 15 upheld a treaty signed in 1850 whereby the Indian inhabitants of the Lake Temagami region had surrendered their rights to white settlers .
3 To fight for the crown against the Church and in order to neutralize the influence of canon lawyers , the regalists introduced the teaching of Natural Law , an innovation which was promptly suppressed in 1794 when the revolutionary dangers of secular political thought were made evident in France .
4 But he supported Meopham in 1332 when the other prelates appealed to the Roman curia .
5 Another document , Ireland Today , published by the Republican Education Department in 1969 when the civil rights movement was already an established fact , gives further evidence on republican strategy :
6 By the time he retired in 1914 nearly a million men , women , and children had held membership , often briefly .
7 A typical enclosure road at Duxford , Cambridgeshire , laid out in 1830 when the open fields of the parish were swept away .
8 According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union .
9 To some extent , of course , local party politics is simply national party politics writ small-the electorate frequently votes on the basis of non-local factors , something well illustrated in 1982 when the local elections were , as Crewe remarked ( The Times , 8 May 1982 , p. 2 ) , ‘ a referendum ’ on the central government 's ‘ handling of the Falklands crisis ’ — a far cry from the local population choosing its local decision-makers on the basis of local political issues .
10 This company formed in 1889 began boring for water in 1890 when the first buildings were erected , and by 1892 most of the village had been connected to its mains .
11 LOSSES at Lloyd 's the London insurance market may be even greater than the £2 billion lost in 1989 when the final figures for 1990 are released this summer , according to analysts in the City .
12 Andy also had Nick 's bag in the English Dunhill Cup win of 1987 and , of course , carried it in 1987 when Europe beat the US in the Muirfield Village Ryder Cup , and in 1989 when the two countries tied at The Belfry .
13 In 1990 nearly a million homes were burgled , almost 20% up on the previous year .
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