Example sentences of "[noun prp] in his [adj] year " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Goumba , who questioned the government 's commitment to a national conference , also said that items had been deleted from the meeting 's agenda , dealing with the media and an electoral code , while President André Kolingba in his New Year address had spoken of the February conference as a " broad national debate " which " can not be a sovereign national conference " . |
| 2 | The NSF 's earlier decision to abolish the death penalty had been confirmed by Iliescu in his New Year 's broadcast to the Romanian people on Jan. 1 , " in order to stress the profoundly popular and humanist character of the new regime " and in compliance with students ' proposals that " the two dictators [ i.e. Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ] were the last persons who deserved this fate " . |
| 3 | Although he had passed Responsions and had few debts at Oxford except for books , his father was already apprehensive about the cost of an Oxford education , with Ernest in his final year of training to be an art-teacher and Reggie with a consuming passion for Shakespeare and the stage , and no other interest . |
| 4 | The cruel semi-obscurity visited upon Angus Wilson in his declining years is ghastly to contemplate . |
| 5 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 6 | A patchy collection , therefore , but largely acceptable , and a decent introduction to Rossini in his bicentenary year . |
| 7 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 8 | A strong supporter of the Stewarts in his early years , he was knighted by Charles II , but when the Stewart King , James II and VII was deposed in favour of Prince William of Orange , Dalrymple found no difficulty in throwing his full support behind the new King William . |
| 9 | Difficult , at this distance , to shut out of mind photographs of Waugh in his later years in his modest country house , forever trying to look like a country gentleman and forever ( as a friend once remarked ) looking like a bookie . |
| 10 | DEMOCRATIC leaders will make desperate attempts this week to prevent President Bush from claiming a Congressional majority for conservative economic policies , similar to the one enjoyed by President Reagan in his early years . |
| 11 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 12 | Finally , we turn to the hostility of the Armed Forces to Khrushchev in his final years , and the question of his downfall in October 1964 . |
| 13 | ‘ Both Ian Curley in his first year and John Nicholson , whose handicap has come on leaps and bounds , have done really well . |
| 14 | satirical allusion to the outburst of poetical celebrations of Shakespeare in his tercentenary year of 1864 . |
| 15 | He commissioned the most famous translation of the Bible ; was a patron of Shakespeare in his later years ; wrote a treatise on the harmful effects of smoking ; and , completely by accident , caused the revival of one of our most noble garden trees . |
| 16 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 17 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 18 | His achievements at the RA in his 10 years of office were immense , innovative and all modestly carried through . |
| 19 | The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . |
| 20 | In Essex in his first year , Douglas-Smith helped to establish three new WEA branches at Dunmow , Maldon and Witham ; Terminal courses at three other centres and encouraged the creation of the Essex County Federation of WEA Branches . |
| 21 | In 1803 this rugged founder of a business that was to become world-famous and bear his name , died at his house in Gardiner Street , Dublin in his 78th year . |
| 22 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |