Example sentences of "in [num] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 2 | He then moved to a succession of short-term jobs until in 1934 he joined some friends in establishing a garage near Basingstoke , specializing in veteran and vintage cars . |
| 3 | The Gold Coast was notable for the high mortality rate suffered by Europeans , and in 1891 he contracted black-water fever and was invalided home . |
| 4 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 5 | In 1736 he received two commissions from Graham : the construction of a nine-feet zenith sector ( the arc of which Graham divided himself ) for the French Académie des Sciences expedition to Lapland under Pierre de Maupertuis to measure the length of a degree of the meridian ; and preparing brass rods and scales for the Royal Society and the Académie for new standards to show the relation between the English yard and the French half-toise . |
| 6 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 7 | The burning question for the poverty lobby is from where and how , particularly given the Fowler reviews in 1986 which made wide-ranging cuts and changes to the social security system . |
| 8 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 9 | In 1986 it employed 670 people and shipped around US $500 million of systems . |
| 10 | When the firm became Bell Lawrie in 1986 he became managing director and the firm changed simultaneously from being a partnership to a limited company . |
| 11 | In 1986 he became general manager of the Care Fore Group 's residential and nursing homes . |
| 12 | In 1986 he became general manager for a private sector group 's residential and nursing homes and for the past year has been connected with the Bridge Hospital in Witham , involved with people with learning disabilities . |
| 13 | When Everton 's title aspirations exploded at Oxford in 1986 he blamed two misses on a new pair of boots , switching back to his worn favourites and slamming a hat-trick past Southampton ! |
| 14 | In 1829 he became resident engineer for the uncompleted Bolton and Leigh Railway and in 1830 resident engineer for the Liverpool section of the Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 15 | In 1799 he spent two days in what he called ‘ proud Gallio-like Portadown ’ . |
| 16 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 17 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |
| 18 | In 1925 he received national press publicity for discoveries concerning malignant growths . |
| 19 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 20 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 21 | In charge of works after the collapse of the central tower in 1237–9 he remained chief master at least until Christmas 1257 , described as ‘ cementarius magister operis ’ and ‘ magister fabrice ’ . |
| 22 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 23 | After a brief engagement to a man later convicted for bigamy and fraud , in 1929 she married American-born Robert Woodward Hathaway ( second of three sons of Charles Hathaway , a Wall Street banker ) . |
| 24 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 25 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 26 | British exporters achieved all-time record exports partly because in 1991 we had all-time record low numbers of strikes and days lost through industrial action . |
| 27 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 28 | In 1660 he defended free grace in two public disputations at Allhallows against John Goodwin [ q.v. ] , the champion of free will . |
| 29 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 30 | Writing to the Bodleian 's first Librarian , Thomas James , in 1612 he contrasted English drama unfavourably with the learned drama of other countries : |