Example sentences of "in [num] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1452 the first sugarmill ( water-powered ) was constructed . |
| 2 | In 776 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 773 ) records that the Mercians and the men of Kent fought at Otford but does not state the outcome . |
| 3 | A Franco-British Committee was set up in 1868 to consider a twin bored tunnel project developed by Thome de Gamond and the British engineers John Hawkshaw and William Lowe , and in 1875 an international commission was set up to consider the legal and regulatory implications . |
| 4 | During my researches in the library of the Royal Geographical Society I learnt that in 1875 an Egyptian army commanded by Munzinger , a Swiss mercenary who had served under Gordon in Equatoria , had set out to invade Abyssinia from Tajura , and been exterminated by the Danakil before they reached Aussa . |
| 5 | North himself then moved into water supply , buying in 1875 an old hulk to use as a tanker , and when in 1878 an English group founded the Water Company of Tarapacá in Iquique to bring water from Arica , he rented the carriage business and storage tanks on a service contract and ran it well . |
| 6 | In 1875 the British government awarded him a pension of £200 per annum in recognition of his discoveries at Ephesus . |
| 7 | In 1875 the notorious Duchess of Sutherland , responsible for some of the most brutal Clearances , was in London with the Duke lionising Mr Moody . |
| 8 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 9 | At the same time as JCI diversified into coal , the company also established itself as an antimony producer when in 1934 a new company , Consolidated Murchison was formed . |
| 10 | In 1934 a new unemployment Act was passed which went some way towards relieving a gradually diminishing problem . |
| 11 | When in 1934 a further loan of £500 from a Colonel Wilson was not repaid , he forced the movement into bankruptcy after Rotha Lintorn Orman once more vetoed a merger with the BUF . |
| 12 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 13 | In 1985–86 a further reduction in employment , to 621,000 , was more rapid than in UK-owned plants and showed a net reduction in jobs of a full third compared with 1978 , slightly more than UK industry . |
| 14 | In 786 the papal legate Theophylact , bishop of Todi , visited the territories of Offa , including ‘ parts of Britain' . |
| 15 | In 1575 a certain Peter Morris of Dutch extraction obtained a licence from the queen to employ engines , or mills , for draining ; and in 1589 Humphrey Bradley , who , despite his name , came from Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands , presented a treatise to Elizabeth 's chief minister , Lord Burghley . |
| 16 | In 1937/8 the average UK ( industrial working-class ) household had to spend 40.1 per cent of its income on food , compared with 30.4 per cent for all households in 1961 , and only 19.0 per cent in 1987 . |
| 17 | Thus , in 1979–80 a primary school of 210 children from 113 families raised £8970 over and above its capitation — an expenditure per child from non public funds of £42.71 per year ( £1 per child per school week ) . |
| 18 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 19 | In 1891 the average attendance in the morning was 68 pupils and 7 teachers and in the afternoon 127 pupils and 10 teachers . |
| 20 | Competition from the more cost-effective ammonia-soda process forced the many Leblanc soda manufacturers to combine , and in 1891 the United Alkali Company was formed , with Hurter in charge of its research centre at Widnes . |
| 21 | In 1543 an earth-centered cosmos was the physical orthodoxy of the day , supported by philosophical arguments that , at the time , were peculiarly compelling . |
| 22 | The relaxation of the censorship which was one of his first actions after the death of his mother meant that in 1780–81 an extraordinary flood of pamphlets ( many of them admittedly on very trivial subjects ) engulfed Vienna . |
| 23 | At Icklesham in 1838 a disgruntled individual , never caught , shot at the local magistrates and sporadic arson continued throughout the 1840s . |
| 24 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 25 | In 1943 the well-known painter , Hans Hofmann , asked the young Pollock how important nature was for his art . |
| 26 | But in 1943 the Italian scholar Maria F. Squarciapino painstakingly collected and analysed the material , recognised its quality , labelled it as the output of a " school " , and urged a re-evaluation of the artists ' contribution to the history of ancient sculpture . |
| 27 | In 1943 the American Treasury had conceived the ‘ Morgenthau Plan ’ to turn Germany into an agricultural economy , but in the summer of 1947 the Americans and British agreed to increase steel production in the Bizone . |
| 28 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 29 | When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation . |
| 30 | In 1948 the International Ozone Commission was formed , with Dobson as president and Normand as secretary ( until 1959 ) . |