Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following autumn , rival mayors were again set up , and on the Sunday following the mayor-making , both sought to validate their claim to office by securing occupancy of the mayor 's pew in the two local churches . |
| 2 | However , neither of these achievements were to prove to Mosley 's advantage in the 1930s . |
| 3 | The accounts were eventually brought before the Review Panel , which took exception to Trafalgar 's decision in the 1991 accounts to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , under current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 4 | Christabel LaMotte wrote this long and very convoluted poem about Melusina 's story in the 1860s and it was published at the beginning of the 1870s . |
| 5 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 6 | As A. G. Street so clearly demonstrated in his classic Farmer 's Glory in the 1930s , these indulgences have invariably been followed , quite suddenly , by much longer periods of agricultural depression when the land has had to be grassed down to rebuild fertility . |
| 7 | From the research which they commissioned into consumer attitudes Mintel concluded there were millions of people in Britain living in a fool 's paradise in the 1990s , continuing to borrow money to the very limit on credit cards , store cards , bank loans and mortgages , yet refusing to accept they were ‘ in debt ’ — mainly because of their ignorance of how money was borrowed and paid back . |
| 8 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 9 | Upon Karamanlis 's election as President in 1980 [ see pp. 30359-61 ] , Averoff narrowly failed to win the ND leadership , but was elected party leader in 1981 after the party 's defeat in the 1981 election [ see p. 31265 ] . |
| 10 | For both historians and activists at the time , Labour 's defeat in the 1931 and MacDonald 's " betrayal " are inseparable … |
| 11 | There had been speculation over the candidacy since the SPD 's defeat in the 1990 general election and Engholm 's election as party chair the following May [ see pp. 37904-05 ; 38199 ] . |
| 12 | Jöllenbeck 's programme in the Seventies was varied in nature and nationality , showing Armand , American Photo-realists , the English artist John Newling and the Dutch artist Paul Thek , among others . |
| 13 | France 's President in the 1980S was Minister of Information in 1948 . |
| 14 | Q. You 're confident , then , about Packaging 's future in the 1990s ? |
| 15 | The research traces the idea 's formation in the 1920s ; the slow growth in individual educational psychology in the 1920s ( associated with , but different from , group psychometrics ) ; the establishment of the current system of clinics and professional regulation of the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 16 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
| 17 | Ashenden 's stake in the 2.50 race , £3 win on Golden Surprise , had contributed further , it appeared , to the luxurious life-style of the bookmaking fraternity . |
| 18 | The demonstrators want Britain to apologize for the executions of nine men who fought for the island 's independence in the fifties . |
| 19 | In a separate development earlier in the month Prime Minster Kang Young Hoon apologized to the National Assembly on July 3 for the government 's misuse of 55,200 million won ( equivalent at the time to nearly US$64,000,000 ) from the 1987 budget to assist the ruling party 's campaign in the 1987 presidential elections . |
| 20 | He served on the society 's council in the 1670s ; and in 1677 , after consulting various fellows of the society , Banks appointed John Locke [ q.v. ] to act as tutor to his surviving son , Caleb ( 1659–96 ) during the latter 's stay in France in 1677–8 . |
| 21 | Four seperate police forces are monitoring every traveller 's vehicle in the four day countdown to midsummer . |
| 22 | The idea goes back to Anderson 's work in the 1930s , and Chandley 's explanation is that very occasionally the whole set of donkey chromosomes might cling together and pass to one of the egg cells while the entire horse set goes to the other . |
| 23 | Charles Booth found that 31 per cent of London 's population in the 1880s lived in primary or secondary poverty and a decade later Seebohm Rowntree claimed that 28 per cent of the people of York lived in equal hardship . |
| 24 | GE 's record in the ten years since this restless Irish-American became the company 's chief executive at the early age of 45 is impressive , especially considering GE 's size and diversity . |
| 25 | Mr Melly , 66 , returned to the world of jazz in 1974 as a singer with John Chilton 's Feetwarmers band , having fronted Mick Mulligan 's band in the 1950s . |
| 26 | Many international cricketers played for Julien Cahn 's team in the 1920s and '30s and R.W.V. Robins ( who also played football for Nottingham Forest ) , C.S. Dempster , R.C. Blunt , R.J. Crisp , D.P.B. Morkel and the Australians Vic Jackson and Jack Walsh were all involved from time to time . |
| 27 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 28 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 29 | Both Gurkha-style battalions played significant roles in South Africa 's war in the 70s and 80s against Cuban forces in Angola . |
| 30 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |