Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first and only veterinary surgeon appointed to the army in 1796 joined the 11th Light Dragoons on 25 June that year as a warrant officer , but was commissioned the following year . |
| 2 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 3 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 4 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 5 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 6 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 7 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 8 | HM The Queen visited the site in 1979 to inaugurate the first evaporator . |
| 9 | This will culminate in a celebration in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the war in the Pacific . |
| 10 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 11 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
| 12 | Following a resolution taken at a conference of the Council of Museums , celebrations will take place in 1995 marking the 2,500th anniversary of one of the oldest Eastern cities in the world , Bukhara in Uzbekistan . |
| 13 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 14 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 15 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 16 | Three unsuccessful bills against occasional conformity were introduced during the early years of Anne 's reign , culminating in the famous attempt in 1704 to tack the third bill on to a Land Tax Bill . |
| 17 | Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ . |
| 18 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 19 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 20 | Orton Chirwa qualified in London in 1958 to become the first African barrister in the country . |
| 21 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 22 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 23 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 24 | Dairying in particular occupied the second Earl 's attention and his own dairy herds were a lifelong passion . |
| 25 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 26 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 27 | Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton . |
| 28 | There were two daughters of the marriage , the elder , Irene , in 1906 becoming the first woman in London to be arrested in the cause of militant feminism . |
| 29 | In 1653 came the first of three books of Ayres and Dialogues by Henry Lawes ; the others followed in 1655 and 1658 , and beside them Playford 's Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick for Song and Viol ( 1654 ) and instrumental music . |
| 30 | However , efforts were well under way in 1990 to address the first problem , with the construction of an airport and a new industrial park . |