Example sentences of "[coord] in [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The Hatfield Polytechnic was moving towards computer instruction for all students because , said Norman Lindop in 1971 , ‘ the computer is a part of modern culture ’ , and in 1970 Computer Weekly was drawing attention to the CNAA 's contribution to computer availability in Scotland .
2 In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives …
3 And in two cases official that were supposed to give the data went missing .
4 Oct-11 mRNA was detected in the adult thymus and testes and in 14.5 day p.c. embryos .
5 At present for instance , we have a cichlid growing-on and breeding ( we hope ) project in our cleanest largest and best tank ; we have a misbehaving Picasso Trigger on its own in a marine tank ( he was a bully in his owner 's community ) ; we have a ‘ planted ’ tank ( planted in the sense that it 's used as a holding tank for plants ) housing four swordtails , temporarily ; and three tanks devoid of occupants and in one case water .
6 And in one case study Cecchetti ( 1986 ) has shown that the news-stand price of magazines has been very rigid ( Reader 's Digest changed its price six times between 1950 and 1980 ) .
7 Especially in polygynous species , the costs of combat are frequently high ( Geist , 1971 ; Clutton-Brock , Albon , Gibson & Guinness , 1979 ) and so , too are the costs of many sexually dimorphic characters associated with combat , such as increased male body size and weapon development ( Clutton-Brock , Guinness & Albon , 1982 ) : in species where males are substantially larger than females , both growing and adult males are often more likely to die than females ( Robinette , Gashwiler , Low & Jones , 1957 ; Grubb , 1974 ; Howe , 1977 ) and in one reindeer population which crashed from 6000 to 42 , only one of the remaining adults was a male ( Klein , 1968 ) .
8 [ And on the next day ] Dr Hunter and Mr Cruikshanks came at 9 this morning and put my wife into the Box on and in 130 lb weight of Paris plaister at 18d a bag .
9 She intentially overstayed her visit and in six months time was doing ‘ day 's work ’ in people 's homes .
10 The fighting escalated with Aoun launching attacks in East Beirut and in 20 villages north-east of Beirut .
11 And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment .
12 In 1861 he was appointed manager of the Cowlairs works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow ( later North British ) Railway and in 1865 locomotive superintendent of the newly formed Highland Railway at Inverness , where he rebuilt existing locomotives to make them more suitable for use over its heavily graded lines .
13 And in three years time Ford will unveil its challenge to the Renault Espace multi-purpose vehicle .
14 In 1943 he became a fellow of the British Academy , and in 1947 Brereton reader in classics in the university .
15 At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ?
16 Algeria is responsible for 70% of Africa 's gas production but in 1983 oil production at just over 40 million tonnes was double gas production .
17 But in 10 years time this will only feel like receiving £5,107 , even though you have paid in £6000 ! .
18 How much intimidation took place after the previous raid is hard to gauge , but in 1955 Charley Head , who had been signals officer with 3 Commando in March 1941 , revisited the islands and learnt that no one was shot after the March raid , although some houses had been burnt down .
19 During the 1920s these pressures became , if anything , even stronger , but in 1924 US legislation effectively placed a ban on Japanese immigration .
20 It looks like a vat of unappetising porridge … but in two weeks time this mixture will have been transformed into two of the rarest beers in the country .
21 I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’
22 But in 1969 tax relief for private loans was abolished , except for buying or improving homes .
23 Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months .
24 The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage .
  Next page