Example sentences of "in [num] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 2 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 4 | But what was the nature of the opposition , in particular from the Municipal Alliance , which had in 1900 brought down the first labour council in West Ham ? |
| 5 | They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped . |