Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he instituted the National Art Survey to record all pre-eighteenth-century buildings . |
| 2 | In 1876 he took a similar position at the Blaenavon ironworks in Monmouthshire under the management of Edward Martin . |
| 3 | In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope . |
| 4 | It came from many quarters , both domestic and foreign , for his megalomaniac , as it was often characterized , insistence on Iran 's ‘ imperial vocation ’ of which in 1972 he celebrated the 2,500th birthday . |
| 5 | In 1933 he suffered a complete ‘ moral and mental collapse ’ and departed the Colonial Service . |
| 6 | He was also a self-educated man , with a particular interest in astronomy , and in 1933 he discovered a white spot on the surface of Saturn . |
| 7 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 8 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 9 | In 1776 he became an active member of the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers , the influential dining club of John Smeaton [ q.v. ] and other leading practical men of the day . |
| 10 | In 1776 he became an active partner in this firm , now styled Barclay , Bevan & Bening . |
| 11 | By the age of twenty-one he had a managerial post in charge of fifteen people . |
| 12 | In 1801 he published a valuable pedagogical work , Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte . |
| 13 | In 1962–63 he took a career-best 8 for 97 for NSW v Victoria at Sydney . |
| 14 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 15 | In 1867 he joined the Independent Order of Good Templars , a fraternal society for teetotal men and women which , unlike most fraternal societies , offered no mutual aid financial scheme . |
| 16 | In 1985 he wrote the famous No Turning Back pamphlet and was a member of the Adam Smith Omega Project which drafted the privatisation blueprint for the second Thatcher government . |
| 17 | In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon 's mate , becoming full surgeon in 1782 . |
| 18 | In 1609 he completed an English translation of a treatise De Potestate Papae , but the Jesuit general refused to allow its publication . |
| 19 | In 1903 he joined the royal commission on the coal supplies of Great Britain ( 1901–5 ) . |
| 20 | His first patent was taken out in 1875 ; he constructed dynamometers which won a medal at the 1878 Paris exhibition ; and in 1879 he invented the liquid microphone . |
| 21 | Such was his energy that in 1753 he steered no fewer than six separate turnpike trust bills through Parliament , all relating to Whitehaven . |
| 22 | In 167 he celebrated a three-day triumph . |
| 23 | In 1825 he used an artesian tube to sink what was then the largest well known in the country , eighty feet deep and thirty feet wide . |
| 24 | In 1825 he induced the then foreign minister , the comte de Damas , to experiment with an essay competition as a means of choosing the most able young attachés for promotion to secretary of embassy or legation ; and in 1830 the Prince de Polignac , who had succeeded Damas , was persuaded to set up another training course . |
| 25 | That is how the former SAS officer sums up his most recent adventure : the first crossing of Antarctica , the coldest place on earth , on foot , an expedition which has left him , not for the first time in his life , with severe frostbite.He is a man of extremes : in 1991 he led an international team which discovered the lost city of Ubar , in the hottest desert in the world , in Arabia.He will be talking about the ‘ hot and cold experience , ’ as he puts it , at Snape Maltings on Saturday April 24 . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1991 he proposed a new party programme which , in effect , would have brought it much closer into line with a social democratic party , competing with others on Western lines . |
| 27 | On May 26 he won the Darbakalan by-election , easily defeating his Congress ( I ) opponent by 53,000 votes . |
| 28 | In 1711 he became the official printer of the London Gazette and the South Sea Company . |
| 29 | In 1874 he entered the Royal ( ‘ Dick ’ ) Veterinary College , Edinburgh , and in 1876 became MRCVS . |
| 30 | In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share . |