Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syngman Rhee was born in 1875 into a branch of the royal family but one lacking in wealth . |
| 2 | In Skircoat Moor Road is a slender octagonal tower 253 feet high which was built in 1875 as a chimney for the dye-works of J.E . |
| 3 | This somewhat uncourageous solution was confirmed in 1869 by a convention between Turkey and Persia in which each side undertook to respect the status quo until a settlement was arrived at . |
| 4 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 5 | A New Zealander , born in Dunedin and a graduate of Otago University , he went to Merton College , Oxford , in 1934 as a Rhodes Scholar , where he took a First in English . |
| 6 | The ULF had been founded in 1920 but remained a small organization affiliated to the Labour Party in 1934 on a membership of only three hundred . |
| 7 | School-based assessment panels were established in St Augustine 's in 1979–80 for a number of reasons . |
| 8 | Warner entered the household of Henry Percy , ninth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , in 1590 as a gentleman servitor , becoming a pensioner in 1617 . |
| 9 | The Abbey Lane Pumping Station at the junction of the Leicester Canal with the River Soar , a mile north of the city centre in Corporation Road , was built in 1891 as a sewage pumping works . |
| 10 | Shakespeare partly-owned the Globe , which was built in 1599 and rebuilt in 1614 after a fire in 1613 started by a cannon used as a prop . |
| 11 | The workhouse , erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000 , was built to accommodate 170 inmates . |
| 12 | The Elizabethan World Picture appeared in 1943 during a period when many feared for the collapse of western civilisation . |
| 13 | The National Health Service ( NHS ) was created in 1948 as a service designed to provide every citizen in post-war Britain with ‘ whatever medical treatment he requires , in whatever form he requires it ’ ( Sir William Beveridge ) . |
| 14 | In 1949 , the Soviet Union organized the Council for Mutual Economic Aid ( Comecon ) , paralleling the Organization for European Economic Cooperation , which had been formed in 1948 as a framework within which the United States could distribute aid to rebuild the warshattered West European economies . |
| 15 | Mr Billy Baker is the longest serving Engine Driver , having started in the Depot in 1948 as a fireman on the old steam engines , becoming a Driver when the diesel locomotives were introduced into Donnington . |
| 16 | The state of Israel itself was set up in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people . |
| 17 | This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his , Ralph Alpher . |
| 18 | Formed in 1948 at a meeting at the Jolly Blacksmith in Twickenham , ESCA runs school competitions at all ages from under-11 to under-19 . |
| 19 | Truman owed a personal debt of loyalty to Louis Johnson , who had served as treasurer of Truman 's re-election committee in 1948 at a time when most commentators had consigned the President to ignominious defeat at the hands of Governor Dewey . |
| 20 | And in 1938 , the editor of Woman 's Own judged from her postbag that ignorance of sex was as widespread as ever , a view born out in 1948 by a woman who explained that : |
| 21 | The present house was built in 1755 to a design by J. J. Wirch . |
| 22 | Shaikh Rashid , born in 1914 , became ruler of Dubai in 1958 and Vice-President of the UAE on its formation in 1971 as a federation of six of the seven Trucial States [ see p. 25010 ] . |
| 23 | Some of the works were presented in 1971 as a sign of solidarity with Allende 's government , the rest were donated after the coup d'état . |
| 24 | He moved to the UK in 1968 following the Russian invasion of Czechoslavkia and joined Bovis in 1971 as a project manager . |
| 25 | Larry Burrows , who was killed in 1971 in a crash over Laos , offered an attractive contrast to McCullin and Page . |
| 26 | The Responsible Society was formed in 1971 by a group of people ‘ concerned about the damage being done to human dignity , welfare and happiness by the misuse of new social freedoms ’ . |
| 27 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 28 | Bernard , who is now 65 , returned to Singapore in 1986 for a holiday with his wife , Betty , and found that much had changed — with skyscrapers now dominating the landscape . |
| 29 | Comparing the present offering to Antenor 's French furniture collection ( sold at Sotheby 's New York in 1986 for a total of over $8 million , a record for a single-owner sale of French furniture in the U.S. at the time ) , Millerand points out , ‘ Antenor Patiño made a number of gifts of French furniture to the Louvre and to Versailles , as well as to the museum in Lisbon . |
| 30 | Further on at Aberllong bay you can see the remains of three tugs wrecked in 1986 on a journey from Liverpool . |