Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 2 | On Hicks 's death in 1869 the business was taken over by G. R. Crickmay of Weymouth and , with the exception of a few weeks in 1870 spent in London with John Raphael Brandon , architect of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square , Hardy worked intermittently with Crickmay in Dorchester and Weymouth until 1872 . |
| 3 | Zhdanov , in particular , evidently did not share Bukharin 's view that in 1934 the time was past when literary criticism should be a " battering ram which smashed the enemy " For Zhdanov and company the socio-political climate was ripe for battering and smashing the ideological enemies of the Soviet Union with every available cultural and artistic weapon . |
| 4 | In 1756 the Museum was compiling records of its acquisitions in bound ledgers called ‘ The Book of Presents ’ and in 1836 the then single Department of Antiquities began to complete bound Acquisition Registers of a type still in use today ( fig. 10.1 ) . |
| 5 | In 1891 the landlord was Jeremiah Addison , who ran the Theatre Royal in Bishop Auckland with his brother . |
| 6 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 7 | In 1891 the point was severely reiterated by Dr Maclagan , the Archbishop of York , who was a strong objector to moustaches despite having been a major in the Madras cavalry and who walked ‘ as though he had his loins girded by a sword belt ’ . |
| 8 | The Works were established by James Kitson in 1835 , and in 1838 the company was known as Todd , Kitson & Laird . |
| 9 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 10 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 11 | In 1948 the exemption was set at $600 a person ; in 1990 it was $2,050 . |
| 12 | But then in 1968 a Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty was signed , in 1971 a treaty was signed prohibiting the testing or use of nuclear weapons on the sea bed , and in 1972 three related treaties were signed in Moscow by Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon . |
| 13 | In 1971 the Sun was added . |
| 14 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 15 | In 1971 an agreement was signed with the British Channel Tunnel Company Ltd and the Société Française du Tunnel Sous la Manche to carry out the project on the basis of a mixture of risk capital and government guaranteed loans . |
| 16 | In 1986 a law was passed that required donations to be valued at cost rather than an invented ‘ appreciated ’ value for tax purposes — though only in cases where the deductions would reduce the donor 's tax bill to zero . |
| 17 | In 1986 the plaintiff was awarded damages . |
| 18 | In 1866 a fire was set deliberately , for insurance purposes , by a Mr Compere , who later received a ten year prison sentence for arson . |
| 19 | In 1886 the President was Balfour Stewart , Tait 's collaborator ; the Vice-Presidents included the Bishops of Carlisle and of Ripon , A. J. Balfour , the future Prime Minister , Lord Rayleigh , the physicist — who had succeeded Maxwell as the Cavendish professor at Cambridge — as well as Sidgwick and other notables . |
| 20 | In 1935 the League was genuinely popular with the British public because it allowed them to believe , not for the first time , that there was no limit to Britain 's power to do good in the world . |
| 21 | In 1861 the town was largely destroyed by fire ( fanned by the F0lin wind ) and was thereafter rebuilt . |
| 22 | In 1980 a conference was held in Thailand for the organisation 's leaders . |
| 23 | This copied Soviet descriptions of Vietnam 's Zone proposal in 1978 , but in 1980 the proposal was specifically concerned with the crisis in Indo-China . |
| 24 | In 1925 the sketch was featured in the royal command performance . |
| 25 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 26 | Bentham was continually at loggerheads with the Navy Board and its officials , and in 1808 the Admiralty was advised to abolish the Board of Naval Works . |
| 27 | In 1753 a rule was introduced that no more could be removed than could be carried unbound under an arm . |
| 28 | In 1933 a scheme was launched for classes to be held for schoolboys during the autumn term under the management of the Corinthians , the amateur club , with Arsenal as sponsors and Chapman taking classes in basic skills , positional play and training . |
| 29 | In 1879 the parish was transferred to the Sacred Heart church in Ilkley . |
| 30 | In this the concern was to measure public opinion as a guide to political action . |