Example sentences of "in [adj] [coord] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The inquisition also excludes holdings in Middlesex which he had passed to his younger son in 1271 and the lands he is known to have acquired in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire and which are later found in the possession of his family . |
2 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
3 | Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 . |
4 | Richard Hollins Murray patented the glass lens in 1923 and the profits he made helped him to buy Dinmore Manor four years later . |
5 | However , the company ran at a net loss of $28.7m as opposed to the $2.7m in profit it got in 1990 or the $4.2m it tallied in 1989 . |