Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum . |
| 2 | In 1875 with the southern third of the country disposed of , attention was turned towards the Highlands . |
| 3 | Wheat and rye were first crossed in 1875 by a Scottish botanist , Stephen Wilson , but the results were disappointing . |
| 4 | They were in their time incomparably more famous and influential than Marx , whose Capital was described in 1875 by an anonymous German expert as the work of a self-educated man ignorant of the progress of the past twenty-five years . |
| 5 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 6 | One of Turner 's earliest known wrought-iron conservatories was the range erected in 1836–7 at the vice-regal lodge in Phoenix Park , Dublin . |
| 7 | Cynewulf was slain in 786 by a rival aetheling , Cyneheard , the brother of the former king , Sigeberht , whom he had been seeking to expel from Wessex ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , and succeeded by Beorhtric . |
| 8 | In addition , the temporal basis of North American forest use has varied in relation to the extension of early colonial settlers across the continent , but as Table 8.1 illustrates , the turning-point in US forest history came in 1891 with the General Revision Act . |
| 9 | Lind confessed in 1891 to the Royal Commission that " unfortunately the new unionism has swallowed up our members . |
| 10 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. Harvey McGregor none the less submit that , so far as the common law of England is concerned , the position crystallised with the latest actual decision in the United Kingdom before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , that is the decision in 1891 of a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division in Ireland in Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland ( 1891 ) 28 L.R.Ir. 69 . |
| 11 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 12 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 13 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 14 | One in five young people receives higher education , compared with only one in eight under the last Labour Government . |
| 15 | In eight of the nine Newham cases , but in only two of the nine Ipswich cases , the development officer continually assessed the situation as unproblematic ; in these cases there was good informal care and/or good home help provision . |
| 16 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 17 | In eight of the 11 patients , full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were available for histological examination . |
| 18 | In some countries , at certain times , the consensus has been anti-inflationary : this has generally been the case in Germany , although the ‘ independent ’ Bundesbank has not prevented inflation being above 5% in eight of the last 20 years , quite apart from the monetary difficulties of German Monetary Union . |
| 19 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 20 | We plan to replace this machine when funds become available some time in 1993/94 with an upgraded machine . |
| 21 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 22 | The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ is famous as a central work in the collection of Henry Philip Hope , who acquired it in 1796 from the influential sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti , who attached Dionysus 's head to the torso and supplied the larger figure with arms , lower legs and other details . |
| 23 | His impassioned Contrasts ( 1836 ) is a manifesto , both visual and verbal , for the Gothic , for it contrasts a town in 1440 with the same town in 1840 ( Fig. 30 ) , a comparison in which 1840 fails in every respect . |
| 24 | To some extent the work of the Committee was affected by the arguments in 1948 over a common Scandinavian military alliance . |
| 25 | Of these the most dramatic had been taken by a Ramallah lawyer , Aziz Shehadeh , who had already demonstrated his independent thinking in 1948 as a leading spirit in the Ramallah Congress of Refugee Delegates ( see above pp. 83–5 ) . |
| 26 | She was born Katharine Appleton in Gravesend in 1948 into a diplomatic family , and remembers herself as ‘ the girl on the reception line ’ at dull diplomatic occasions in various European embassies while her father carried out his duties as an air attache . |
| 27 | After the lifting of the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviets in 1948 despite the Four Power agreement , the two Germanys were formally established as separate republics . |
| 28 | Barber may best be remembered as a founder member in 1948 of the Fine Chemicals Group of the Society of Chemical Industry , and later as its chairman . |
| 29 | Such ideas were abandoned only when advocates of a third force were squarely confronted in 1948 with a precise timetable — namely that Britain 's needs were so great that ( to be of value ) such a " force " would need to be created within five years . |
| 30 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |