Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] in [num] [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 to my senior command and in 1986 I informed my chief officers of the acceptance of my Ph.D .
4 Dan Mason of the Chiswick Polish Company — ‘ Cherry Blossom Polish ’ — was a great benefactor and in 1922 he bought Boston House in Burlington Lake , Chiswick , and had it converted into a club for the female staff of his Company 's factory .
5 In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris .
6 Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots .
7 The colonial government entered the field of the press soon after the German defeat when in 1923 it introduced Mambo Leo ( ‘ Affairs of Today ’ ) .
8 A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies .
9 Clearly this is what Andrea 's nephew Giovanni ( C. 1555–1612 ) had in mind when in 1587 he published a collection of motets , Mass-movements , and madrigals by his uncle and himself as Concerti ( a very early use of the term ) per voci , & stromenti Musicali ; a 6.7.8.10.12. & 16 .
10 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 .
11 In 1988 it was selected from a session and in 1989 it won people over again when it was included on the LP .
12 A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits .
13 Returning to his parents in Scarborough , he continued to train in hotel management until in 1925 he at last defied the family and enrolled as a drama student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where two years later he won the gold medal and was immediately given his start in the professional theatre by one of his teachers , the Russian director Theodore Komisarjevsky [ q.v . ] .
14 His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris .
15 ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson .
16 In disgust Steel-Maitland resigned as Party Chairman and in 1919 he despaired of ever getting a senior post and resigned from the government too .
17 In the wake of Hillier 's retirement in 1882 , he was appointed assistant inspector-general and in 1884 he became one of the country 's four new divisional magistrates , with his headquarters in Athlone .
18 In 1938 he moved to the School of Oriental & African Studies in the same university and in 1944 he was appointed to the Chair of Linguistics , the first chair of that title in the UK .
19 William had been involved with Clydesdales since his boyhood and in 1897 he bought two good mature stallions and a fine brood mare with which he established Dunure Mains as a stud .
20 His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society .
21 Here he was impressed by America 's industrial progress and in 1862 he visited London for its World Exhibition and to see the museums of South Kensington .
22 Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted .
23 Mr Berry already had ambitions to expand Blue Arrow 's personnel services on a global basis and in 1987 he discussed with County the possibility of his company 's launching a takeover of Manpower , a US-listed agency .
24 The first office he is known to have held ( in 1256 ) was the purely local one of coroner and in 1258 he was one of the four Shropshire knights appointed to investigate grievances in the same county under the Provisions of Oxford .
25 In 1911 he founded the Glasgow Music Festival and in 1921 he was one of the founders of the British Federation of Music Festivals .
26 In 1984 , £6 million was spent converting it to diesel and in 1987 it was refurbished at a cost of £22 million .
27 Furthermore , expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP has fallen , In 1975/76 educational expenditure represented 6.3 per cent of GDP but in 1986/87 it represented only 4.9 per cent .
28 The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) .
29 He also took up fishing , fellwalking and sailing and in 1988 he climbed the Himalayas .
30 Roth supported himself by freelance writing until in 1939 he received a specially created readership in post-biblical Jewish studies at the University of Oxford , where he was also mentor and host to Jewish students .
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