Example sentences of "in [num] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
2 | It is thought that from the late 16th century it was placed on top of the remaining tower of the ruined Kilwinning Abbey ( the Abbey was destroyed in 1561 at the time of the Scottish Reformation ) . |
3 | The workhouse , erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000 , was built to accommodate 170 inmates . |
4 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | One especial favourite was David Mitchell who had joined the Navy in 1948 at the age of fifteen . |
8 | In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . |
9 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
10 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
11 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
12 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
13 | The building was completed in 1829 at a cost £34,199 11s 6d . |
14 | Old Sandy at Crossapol , with a fierce mane of white hair like Bertrand Russell , still ‘ fumes ’ when he remembers the eight innocent Tiree men arrested in 1886 at a Land League meeting at Balephuil . |
15 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
16 | However , after training , she set out by boat for India in 1935 at the age of 30 as a pioneer missionary under the auspices of the Ceylon and India General Mission . |
17 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
18 | Skirlaugh church school was built in 1861 at a cost of £1,000 and was originally supported by the Langdale Charity . |
19 | After a pious and seemingly untroubled Christian upbringing , he was duly confirmed in 1861 at the age of sixteen , but within a year was already casting a cold eye on the case for a " literalistic attitude " towards Christian doctrine and asserting that " the existence of God , immortality , the authority of the Bible , inspiration and other things will always remain problems . |
20 | But perhaps the easiest way to follow the new pop story is in the pages of The Face , a magazine founded in 1980 at the conjuncture of music , fashion , art and design . |
21 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
22 | They had one daughter , who died of typhoid in 1872 at the age of eight . |
23 | Thus , in 1202 at the Lincolnshire Assize , the defendant was acquitted of rape , having successfully argued in his defence that ‘ tunc et prius et post fuit succuba eius ’ — she had lain with him both before and afterwards . |
24 | She made her exhibition début in 1867 at the Dudley Gallery , London , with three water-colours of female figures drawn from literary sources . |
25 | It was built in 1802 at the expense of Mrs Charlotte Bethell , the wife of the then lord of the manor . |
26 | Born in 1914 Blamey began his art studies in 1933 at the Regent Street Polytechnic where Harry Watson was the most influential teacher . |
27 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
28 | You remember , he was appointed President of the Reichsmusikkammer in 1933 at the time when he was working on Die schweigsame Frau with Stefan Zweig . |
29 | The only major late work was a programmatic second symphony , ‘ Chivalry ’ , first performed in 1881 at the Crystal Palace . |
30 | His brother Luke , whom Coleridge had come to know and revere in London , had died in 1790 at the age of twenty-five ; Nancy , loved ‘ most tenderly ’ , had succumbed to tuberculosis the following year at only twenty-one . |