Example sentences of "in [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St. John 's Roman Catholic Church founded in 1138 was formerly the Chapel of the medieval Hospital of St. John . |
| 2 | The reopening of the Halls in 1985 was just the beginning . |
| 3 | The revolution that toppled this edifice in 1979 was not the work of any single organized movement . |
| 4 | The NUM 's strike action in 1984 was thus a conflict between the perceived ‘ irresistible force ’ of the union and the ‘ immovable object ’ of the government . |
| 5 | — Viscount Whitelaw , introducing the Prime Minister ‘ What happened in Russia in 1917 was n't a revolution . |
| 6 | ‘ What happened in Russia in 1917 was n't a revolution . |
| 7 | This reorganization in 1962 was largely a result of the pressing need of the railways for financial readjustment . |
| 8 | Labour 's rather narrow parliamentary majority in 1964 was chiefly an effect of a slump in Tory support and continuing electoral revival of the Liberals ( who received over 10 per cent of the vote for the first time since the war ) . |
| 9 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 10 | The building of the present Thomas Street Church in 1860 was not the result of the 1859 Revival but a providential event parallel to it . |
| 11 | The mistress of the church school in a Somersetshire parish in 1805 was not a widow but still sufficiently poor for her ten-year-old son to be killed working in a coal mine . |
| 12 | At constant prices , the real value of government drug imports in 1989 was only the value in 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , op. cit . ) . |
| 13 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |
| 14 | The implication is that peasant militancy in 1905 was not a function of overall impoverishment and that minor concessions , such as the reduction in taxes and ending of redemption dues , were unlikely to transform peasant attitudes . |