Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] year [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax .
2 At Christmas she fell ill , and in the New Year she was worse .
3 In the first year we were frightened of him , in the second year we got used to him , and in the third year we really liked him . ’
4 He 's cost us , cost us a million pounds in the first year he was a councillor .
5 In the following year they were replaced by five more powerful turbines and a larger steam engine .
6 In the following year they were given a new jurisdiction concerning redundancy payments , and concerning statutory rights to information about particulars of contracts of employment .
7 Very little is recorded of his subsequent activities but on 22 March 778 he ordered three duces ( ealdormen ) to be slain by the nobles , Aethelbald and Heardberht — Ealdwulf , son of Bosa , at Coniscliffe and Cynewulf and Ecga at Helathirnum ( ASC D , s.a. 778 ) , and this action may have weakened his position for in the following year he was driven out by Aelfwald , son of Oswulf ( ASC D , s.a. 778 ) .
8 In the following year he was on his way to Constantinople when he died 17 October in a village in Greece .
9 In 1875 he was awarded an exhibition in physical science newly created by the Clothworkers ' Company ; in the following year he was awarded an entrance scholarship at Christ 's College , Cambridge .
10 In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career .
11 In 1805 he collected in the Faeroes and in the following year he was commissioned by the Danish government to collect in Greenland , where he passed eight summers and seven winters .
12 In the following year he was made responsible for the new shrine which Henry III was beginning for Edward the Confessor .
13 In the following year he was commissioned to raise mariners for service against the king 's enemies .
14 In 1926 , income from branches received by the District was a mere £49 ; in the following year it was £46 .
15 In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there .
16 In the same year it was considered likely that a commercial FBR would be ready in 1965 .
17 In the same year I was elected as president of the Junior Common Room , and presided at debates and business sessions of the student body .
18 Gironella seems to have been very confident about the change , as in the same year he was instrumental , together with Vlady and Héctor Xavier , in establishing a new art gallery in Mexico City , the Galeria Prisse .
19 Later in the same year he was able to compensate his brother in handsome style .
20 In 1885 he became a founder-member of council of the Manchester Photographic Society , where he met some of the most notable pioneers of early photographic techniques , and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society .
21 In the same year he was appointed to the lucrative post of attorney of the court of wards , through the influence of William Cecil , Baron Burghley [ q.v . ] .
22 He was knighted in 1938 for service to the hotel industry , and in the same year he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour .
23 Together with Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] ( often his partner in these years ) , he led an expedition to the north in 1315 ; in 1316 he took a major role in the suppression of the Welsh rising of Llywelyn ab Rhys ( Llewelyn Bren ) [ q.v. ] and of the revolt at Bristol ; and in the same year he was among the committee of bishops and magnates appointed to reform the royal household .
24 It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle .
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