Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he supported Meopham in 1332 when the other prelates appealed to the Roman curia . |
| 2 | The Sud Express to Lisbon leaves Paris Austerlitz at nine o'clock every morning . |
| 3 | Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived . |
| 4 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 5 | Alexander assumed the throne of Montenegro in 1918 when the French government , in league with the Serbian , refused to allow the old man to go back to Montenegro after his wartime exile in France . |
| 6 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 7 | ‘ Here , ’ said Stephen Brandt to life , walking down the Strand at eleven o'clock the next dampish morning and moving his lips without a sound . |
| 8 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 9 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 10 | One strange chapter in this story came to be written at Geneva in 1986 when a difficult problem of ceiling division in conference was overcome by Iran 's proposal that Iraq be freed from the discipline of a quota , enabling it to produce as much as it chose . |
| 11 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 12 | The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands . |
| 13 | Divorce figures have been growing steadily in the UK since 1971 when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into force . |
| 14 | Morse and Lewis arrived at the Chesterton Hotel in Bath at 10.35 a.m. the following morning . |
| 15 | Exiled abroad for opposing the 1964 military coup , Prestes returned to Brazil from Moscow in 1979 when the ban on opposition parties was lifted . |
| 16 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 17 | Hastings will be the fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War in succession to the late Arthur Smith in South Africa in 1962 ; Mike Campbell-Lamerton in New Zealand in 1966 and Finlay Calder in Australia in 1989 when the combination of a Scotland captain and coach ended triumphant . |
| 18 | First , BR curtailed the production line of the obsolete overcomplicated Class 56 Co-Cos in 1984 when the 135th example emerged from BREL Crewe . |
| 19 | I forgot all about Svetlana until 1989 when a remarkable coincidence brought us together again . |
| 20 | Lumsden replaced Eden in 1970 when the latter was transferred to Continental Shelf work and E. G. Poole succeeded Lawrie in 1973 . |
| 21 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 22 | In households in Great Britain in 1988 where the head of the household was aged 65 or over , 47.5% were owner occupiers without a mortgage and 4.5% with a mortgage , 40% were renting from a council or housing association and 8.5% were renting from private landlords . |
| 23 | Let us now go in our imaginations to Dunbartonshire and visit the town of Rhu in 1829 where the young minister of just twenty-nine was preaching . |
| 24 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 25 | A further step was taken at Birmingham in 1930 when the Conference instructed the National Administrative Council : to reconstruct the ILP Parliamentary Group on the basis of acceptance of the policy of the ILP as laid down by decisions of Annual Conference and as interpreted by the NAC. and to limit endorsements of future ILP Parliamentary candidates to nominees who accept this basis . |
| 26 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 27 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 28 | Dave 's first major success with Fernandez came at Fulford in 1975 when the Argentinian clinched the Benson and Hedges International . |
| 29 | A pioneer attempt to overcome the problems of political remoteness was made in Lewis in 1943 when the Lewis Association was set up ‘ to survey and study the social and economic needs of the Island and to draw up progressive plans of development ’ . |
| 30 | The miracle has been performed by the Archbishop of Naples since 1389 when the phial mysteriously first appeared . |