Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 Kempe bought an Elizabethan house , Old Place , Lindfield , which he greatly enlarged and decorated lavishly with his growing collection of furniture and works of art . |
| 2 | In 1755 Kitchin engraved the great John Mitchell [ q.v. ] map of North America , used at the peace treaties of Paris and Versailles . |
| 3 | In 1755 Bach made a decisive break with the inward-looking Lutheran traditions of his forebears by travelling to Italy , possibly in the company of an Italian lady singer , where he took counterpoint lessons with Padre Martini in Bologna , composed several Roman Catholic church works , and secured a Milanese patron , Count Agostino Litta , through whose efforts he became ‘ second organist ’ at Milan cathedral in 1760 . |
| 4 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |
| 5 | But in 1986 Virani sold the little beer-maker for £25 million — only to buy it back again in 1988 for £8 million less . |
| 6 | In 1986 GM acquired a controlling interest in the British sports car maker Lotus , and also employs thousands in its UK car parts division , AC Delco . |
| 7 | In 1935 Humphrys left the public service and embarked on a career in the City . |
| 8 | In 1885 Balmer discovered a striking numerological relationship between the frequencies of the most prominent lines . |
| 9 | In 1933 Read published an even-handed book called Art Now , eclectic in its selection , with discussions of Expressionism , Abstraction and Surrealism . |
| 10 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 11 | In 1821 Smith made a fifth voyage to New South Shetland , but found British and American ships there , killing fur seals , which were almost exterminated in the next five years . |
| 12 | The armed forces continued to be split , chiefly over the issue of the treatment of soldiers involved in the " dirty war " of 1976-83 and in more recent military rebellions , with former officers such as Aldo Rico and Mohamed Alí Seineldin who had been involved in 1987-88 rebellions keeping a high public profile despite their pardoning and subsequent dismissal from the Army in October 1989 [ see p. 36972 ] . |
| 13 | In 1985 CND made the proposed new cruise missile base at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire the target for their Easter protests . |
| 14 | In 1720 Boerhaave produced an impressive catalogue of plants in the Leyden Garden , Index alter Plantarum ( 2 vols ) , and under Protea in the Dictionary Miller refers to this work ( he also included it in the bibliography ) . |
| 15 | Early in 1929 Humphrys supervised the safe aerial evacuation of several hundred Europeans from the city ( a pioneering feat of aviation in sub-zero temperatures over high mountain ranges ) ; both he and his wife were commended for their ‘ courage and fortitude ’ in the House of Commons on 4 February . |
| 16 | In 1929 Dall invented a modified form of the widely-used Cassegrain reflector , which is easier to make than the classical Cassegrain design . |
| 17 | In 1929 Marks left the Liberal Party and offered his support to Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 18 | In 1892 Trevor founded a monthly publication entitled Labour Prophet . |
| 19 | In 1874 Elliot became the first of the coal industry 's business leaders to receive a baronetcy . |
| 20 | In 1963 Hill defined the representative volume element ( RVE ) in a consideration of general properties of composite materials . |
| 21 | In his message to the Havana Non-Aligned Summit in 1979 Brezhnev stressed the Soviet opposition to ‘ the division of the world into military-political blocs opposed to each other ’ . |
| 22 | In 1991 Lopex made a pre-tax loss of £400,000. — PA |
| 23 | The man , arrested after the woman called police , admitted entering her Tokyo flat several times in six months using a stolen key . |
| 24 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |
| 25 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 26 | It had books , records and unsorted bric-a-brac , and a foam chair that folded out in three sections to make a single bed of sorts . |
| 27 | As table 1 shows , almost one in three businesses gave the highest possible rating , and almost three-quarters the two highest , while only one in 20 gave the two lowest combined . |
| 28 | Chris Lightfoot scored two in three minutes to overcome a seventh-minute deficit at Rochdale and put Chester City into the first round of the Leyland Daf Trophy . |
| 29 | The atmosphere was not improved when in 1984 Iran outlawed the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party and expelled a number of Soviet diplomats . |
| 30 | In 1975 France started a detailed evaluation of the minerals it could obtain from its own soil . |