Example sentences of "in [num] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Provisions , adopted in 1948 just before the Kuomintang government fled from the mainland to Taiwan , had rendered the Constitution largely irrelevant . |
| 2 | On 2 October 1762 she married Robert Clark of Tetbury , Gloucestershire , whose first wife had died in 1755 shortly after the birth of a daughter , Mary . |
| 3 | It culminated in 3000 BC in the unification by Menes of upper and lower Egypt and the flowering of one of the world 's greatest and longest-lived civilisations . |
| 4 | Built in 1385 just before the development of gunpowder made such structures obsolete Bodiam now stands as a magnificent example of a medieval fortress and is much in demand by film companies as a location . |
| 5 | The Greeks were followed in 30 BC by the arrival of Roman and later Byzantine rulers who were to survive until AD 638 . |
| 6 | Further rectilinear structures associated with Flavian material were also located in 1985 closer to the town . |
| 7 | Overseas securities grew markedly after the removal of exchange controls in 1979 largely at the expense of UK company securities , but as with overseas investments by investment trust ( see next section ) have fallen away slightly in recent years . |
| 8 | The republic of Rome was severely shaken in 44 B.C. by the murder of Julius Caesar . |
| 9 | Though he claimed to have restored the Republic after thirteen years of civil war that lasted from the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 , he was in fact sole ruler and emperor of Rome and its conquered territories . |
| 10 | It was he who had dramatically proposed an Anglo-French Union in 1940 just before the fall of France . |
| 11 | In 1873 much of the mill was destroyed by a huge boiler explosion . |
| 12 | The company went into liquidation in 1909 largely as a result of the uneconomic cost of shipping the chalk . |
| 13 | Although tramway traffic was still increasing in 1930 much of the equipment was due for renewal . |
| 14 | For example prison officers at Wandsworth threatened industrial action in 1997 partly over the issue of the prison 's infestation by rats and cockroaches and the methods used to combat it ( Guardian , 24 January 1997 ) . |
| 15 | The Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1846 largely under the inspiration of a Polish Jew , Ridley Herschell , who had been converted in London and became a notable Nonconformist preacher in the capital . |
| 16 | In 1989 much of the world was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution . |
| 17 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 18 | The Banking Supervision Division was established in 1974 mainly as a result of the secondary banking crisis in 1973–1974 . |
| 19 | His son , the present Lord Rathcreedan , born 1905 , recalls that his parents came to Henley in 1910 specifically for the golf and because it was not far from London . |