Example sentences of "[noun] that in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Having barely attained his majority he was returned to the first Exclusion Parliament for Radnorshire , and , although knighted by Charles II in 1680 , threw himself with an almost desperate zeal into the cause of Exclusion , with the result that in 1683 he went into voluntary exile in Holland , suspected of complicity in the Rye House plot . |
2 | In 1701 – 2 , the Whig mayor of the small corporation of Wilton , Wiltshire , created nineteen new burgesses , all of whom were Dissenters who did not even qualify under the terms of the Corporation Act , with the result that in 1702 he was able to reverse the defeat suffered by the Whigs in the election of the previous year . |
3 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
4 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |
5 | It is an all too sobering thought that in 1993 we have not developed the mechanisms which will enable us to index , search , and analyze those data according to our very many and particular research interests . |
6 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
7 | So great by now was Edward 's paranoia that in 1324 he seized the lands of his queen , Isabella , and dispersed her servants to safe-custody in various religious houses , lest they be employed to aid her brother , the king of France . |
8 | Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast . |
9 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
10 | He became a pupil in London of John Nash [ q.v. ] , and it was presumably through Nash 's connection with south Wales that in 1801 he was employed to design a small public building in Carmarthen . |
11 | The Reich bought from members and supported the association to such an extent that in 1942 they celebrated their 75th anniversary with a big exhibition of German women artists ! |
12 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
13 | Such was his energy that in 1753 he steered no fewer than six separate turnpike trust bills through Parliament , all relating to Whitehaven . |
14 | Truman was not prepared to do so as yet , despite the fact that in general he fully supported Acheson . |
15 | That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more . |