Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1344 , Edward III swore to emulate King Arthur and founded a Round Table for the knights and in 1348 he established the Order of the Garter , a brotherhood of twenty-six knights . |
| 2 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 3 | A member is obliged to comply with the Rules and in particular he is obliged to comply with rule 2.12(1) under which : |
| 4 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
| 5 | In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year . |
| 6 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 7 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |
| 8 | In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 . |
| 9 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 10 | They had laid waste the entire north of the country and in 449 they arrived at the university town of Stamford . |
| 11 | The British were determined to consolidate their own control over the country and in 1919 they imposed an Anglo-Persian treaty that virtually made Iran a British protectorate . |
| 12 | At the same time that does create pressures upon the school and in particular it creates pressures upon you in terms of finding the money in order to ensure that those pupils are resourced adequately . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 14 | Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson . |
| 15 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |