Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [noun prp] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applegarth had joined the International Working Men 's Association ( the First International ) in January 1865 , a few months after its foundation , and at the third congress in Brussels in June 1868 he was elected chairman of the general council . |
| 2 | My first-class debut for Natal in December 1988 I scored a century in the first innings . |
| 3 | When de Lattre had visited Washington in September 1951 it was this theme , ‘ the ability of communist China to invade Indo-China and South-East Asia ’ that the State Department had chosen to stress in their briefing for President Truman and their up-beat assessment of the General who had transformed ‘ an army beset with defeatism into a force which has since won every major engagement against the communist forces ’ . |
| 4 | In fact , within months of the creation of the CDP in December 1969 it was agreeing that the obtaining of charters was a ‘ legitimate aim ’ . |
| 5 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 6 | When Richard went to England in April 1176 he clearly found his father ready and able to help . |
| 7 | On my return to Burma in November 1945 I was Archdeacon of Rangoon , but it soon became clear that my main attention would have to be devoted to working for understanding and peace . |
| 8 | In Milan in June 1950 you had Schwarzkopf ; also Kathleen Ferrier as one of your soloists . |
| 9 | When Kermode met Jackson in January 1948 he commented that he was able , responsible and steady . |
| 10 | Since the abolition of exchange controls in the UK in October 1979 it has been possible for residents of the UK to hold foreign currency on account if they so wish . |
| 11 | Indeed , at Sheffield in May 1930 he almost erected the contrary view into a principle : |
| 12 | When Kuwait 's Foreign Minister visited Moscow in April 1981 he found ‘ positive points ’ in Brezhnev 's proposal ‘ to remove foreign military forces from the Gulf region and to neutralise the region ’ . |
| 13 | When Prime Minister Bulganin declared Soviet readiness to abandon Porkkala in September 1955 he suggested that ‘ the removal of military bases situated on foreign territory by other states also would significantly assist the further relief of international tension and assist the creation of conditions to end the arms race ’ . |
| 14 | However , Vuk was too honest and too independent-minded to please Miloš , and when he again crossed over to Zemun in April 1832 he wrote a frank letter , telling Miloš what he believed to be wrong with his regime and advising him to introduce a constitution . |
| 15 | At the Bermuda meeting with Eisenhower in December 1953 he tried to woo the president with a promise that , if the communists broke the cease-fire in Korea , Britain would agree to the use of nuclear weapons against military targets . |
| 16 | On his return to Westminster in December 1645 he supported an Erastian church settlement . |
| 17 | In Islay in September 1938 they were flying a peregrine falcon at grouse with a bird called Cressida . |
| 18 | When it won the Pulitzer Prize in the US in April 1983 it started to gather a bit more grudging attention and the occasional baffled or withering review ( the London Sunday Times , for example , described it as ‘ drearily predictable ’ ) . |
| 19 | When war again broke out with France in June 1778 it proved difficult to scrape together 21 ships of the line ready for sea , in spite of a nominal strength of 199 first , second or third rates . |
| 20 | When our chairman , Richard Newcombe , and I visited the N.R.M. York in July 1992 we arranged to have several documents , articles etc. photo-copied for the Society . |
| 21 | Shortly before the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in July 1986 he was transferred to other duties , much to Diana 's dismay . |
| 22 | On entering Taiwan from the USA in December 1991 he had been immediately arrested . |
| 23 | In a speech at the launch of the ss Trevethoe in February 1913 he took the opportunity publicly to declare that he was in favour of a conciliation board , and that he was not alone in this conviction . |