Example sentences of "in [num] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , as capitalist work relations and practices were successfully implemented , rural labour organised a national union ; but it was built upon unsure foundations and , significantly , Essex witnessed its crushing defeat in 1874 at the hands of local farmers . |
| 2 | The Odones were left stunned when they were told in 1984 at the Children 's Hospital in Washington DC that their fun-loving , brilliant six-year-old son — he already spoke three languages — had ALD , and was under sentence of death . |
| 3 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 4 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 5 | Violent events both in Ulster and in Britain itself continued to escalate , with the murder of Lord Mountbatten on his yacht in 1982 at the hands of the IRA . |
| 6 | Epic poems were sung to commemorate such events as the battles against the Turks during the Balkan wars of 1912–13 and ( shades of Kosovo ) the defeat of the Serbs in 1915 at the hands of the Habsburgs and their allies . |
| 7 | Instead , a seminar was held in 1990 at the premises of the Soviet cultural foundation , with leading Sotheby 's experts taking part . |