Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

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1 Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 .
2 Therefore , formal protests were made when Hitler announced compulsory military service in 1935 and an increase in military forces , in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles , and when Italy invaded Abyssinia .
3 The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 .
4 He obtained a BA in mathematics ( thirteenth wrangler ) in 1881 and an MA in 1885 .
5 Sarre ( 1981 ) points to the quite marked fluctuations in numbers throughout the 1970s ( although he recognizes the data limitations ) which reached a peak in 1972 and a low in 1975 , climbing back to about 155,000 in 1979 ( table 5.4 ) .
6 The report by the National Association of Estate Agents follows the annual review by the Halifax Building Society , which predicts a 15 per cent increase in sales in 1993 and a rise in prices during the second half of the year .
7 With a list of accolades under her no doubt stylish belt — including the prestigious British Designer of the Year Award in 1985 and an MBE in 1987 — she has certainly had an illustrious career .
8 Two important exhibitions re-established the reputation of the association at this time : The Women of Today in 1929 and The Child in 1930 .
9 Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 .
10 He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 .
11 William Dunlop disposed of most of his horses in 1917 and the remainder in 1920 .
12 He was educated at Winchester College ( 1915–20 ) and Trinity College , Cambridge ( 1920–3 ) , where he read mathematics , winning an entrance scholarship , becoming a senior scholar in 1921 and a wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1923 .
13 Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 .
14 From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 .
15 The Peugeot 405 , both non-turbo and turbo , is now in group 8 ; previously the non-turbo was in 4 and the turbo in 5 .
16 It was not until the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1981 that the law in Northern Ireland was in breach of its convention that the process of reform started there , bringing change that was fifteen years behind England and Wales , and twenty-five years after the publication of the Wolfenden Report .
17 To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the total number of people in the Greater London area receiving social security benefits in 1978-79 and the total in 1990-91 .
18 Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution .
19 Two studies have been made of police records relating to suspicions , one in the Lothian and Borders region in 1982 and the other in the Thames Valley in 1984 .
20 The transhepatic route was used in 15 and the transperitoneal in 10 patients .
21 Events moved so rapidly in 1939 that the Left in Britain could do little but point to the complete breakdown of the National government 's foreign policy .
22 Born Sergei Izvekov at Bogorodsk near Moscow , he pursued his religious vocation in a hostile climate of militant state atheism , becoming a monk in 1927 and a priest in 1932 .
23 Copyrights Europe opened in Hamburg in 1988 , followed by Copyrights Australia in Melbourne in 1990 and an office in Tokyo in 1992 .
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