Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 2 | Charles crossed the River Elbe in 789 with an army of Franks , Frisians and Saxons . |
| 3 | Charles Whiteside , of Tivoli Cottages , Moresby , joined Sekers in 1943 as an apprentice overlooker before becoming shift manager and later production manager . |
| 4 | The UDA was formed in 1971 as an umbrella group of Loyalists . |
| 5 | In the first case , the purchaser had bought a £17,500 house in 1980 with an Abbey National Building Society mortgage . |
| 6 | The first signs that neutrinos might oscillate came in 1980 from an experiment by Fred Reines and colleagues at the University of California , Irvine . |
| 7 | A review of current practice in the assessment of low attainers in mathematics was carried out in 1983–4 as an adjunct to the main project in its first year . |
| 8 | She was born in 1895 to an army major and his wife and was granddaughter to a field marshal . |
| 9 | Founded in 1972 as an expression of the enthusiasm of Christians in the '60s for ‘ world poverty action ’ and ‘ action for world development ’ , SCAWD has focussed over the years on such concerns as development and disarmament , the debt crisis , the Brandt and Brundtland Commissions ' reports , and South-North : Cultures and ‘ Development ’ . |
| 10 | The Centre was originally established in 1972 as an SSRC research unit and became a DRC in 1985 . |
| 11 | It was a group which came together in 1972 in an attempt to focus attention on the severity and inconsistencies of sentences being given in the courts to loyalists charged with politically motivated offences in contrast to those being given to republicans . |
| 12 | For example , if you had started a savings plan in 1900 for £1 per month at 8% interest you would receive £249,033.53 in 1993 with an earnings ratio of 22214.83% ! |
| 13 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 14 | Their son Rudolph , whose wedding was the first to be celebrated in Liverpool Cathedral , died in 1929 after an operation for appendicitis ; his twin sons died in infancy . |
| 15 | Arbroath was founded in 1178 by an order descended from Abbot Bernard who left Poitiers for Tiron ; monks from this Benedictine reform group of Tironensians established Kelso down on the Borders , and two friars came thence to Arbroath . |
| 16 | A 30-year BP man , he joined the company 's tanker organisation in 1963 as an engineering cadet . |
| 17 | Coleman had joined BNS in 1963 with an Oxford history degree and initially cconcentrated on work study . |
| 18 | Following nine years service in the RAF , Ken worked for a number of companies , before joining Haven Automation in 1979 as an instrument engineer . |
| 19 | The official birth of the Italian Transavanguardia movement with which Bonito Oliva 's name is now crucially linked took place in 1979 in an exhibition he organised entitled ‘ Opere fatte ad arte ’ at Acireale , followed the next year by ‘ Aperto 80 ’ at the Biennale which featured the work of Chia , Clemente , Cucchi , De Maria and Paladino , the first in a series of shows devoted to young artists at the Venice festival . |
| 20 | Sold for £110,000 at Phillips in 1991 with an attribution to the workshop of Ugolino di Nerio and an estimate of less than £20,000 , Gentile da Fabriano 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ is now on sale at Agnew 's . |
| 21 | The court heard Pike had bought the horse in 1991 with an injury . |
| 22 | There in 1751 in an army of 133,000 only 50,000 were natives of the various Prussian provinces ; and even in 1786 the proportion had risen only slightly , to 80,000 in a total of 190,000 . |
| 23 | Bell 's most important surviving building is the Customs House , King 's Lynn , built in 1683 as an exchange and sold to the customs authorities in 1718 . |
| 24 | Trail ( 1905 ) named a short list of plants collected on the Flannan Isles in 1904 by an ornithologist , W. Eagle Clarke , and similarly Bennett ( 1907 ) named additional species gathered in 1899 by W. J. Gibson . |
| 25 | He next surfaced in Amsterdam in 1969 as an insurrectionist amongst the more seditious members of the hippy community and was instrumental in provoking clashes between them and the police . |
| 26 | Ann Ridler joined the CNAA in 1969 as an assistant to Jean Rossiter , Senior Assistant Registrar for Arts and Social Studies , and became Assistant Registrar ( the first appointment with that title in the CNAA ) in that area in 1971 , and Senior Assistant Registrar in 1973 — a title commuted for all its holders to Registrar in 1976 . |
| 27 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |
| 28 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 29 | In 1984 in an interview with the Giornale dell'Arte Bonito Oliva observed that ‘ A critic has to have extremely rapid reactions ; his role is to grasp ideas and project them into the future ’ . |
| 30 | The BBC Director-General Hugh Greene was scathing in 1960 about an ITA claim to the public service label . |