Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 2 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 3 | Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton . |
| 4 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 5 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 6 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 7 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 8 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 9 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |