Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [adj] [pers pn] be " in BNC.

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1 It is no wonder that in March 1943 he was suffering from fatigue which again brought on influenza .
2 However , in March 1989 it was announced that a constitution would be promulgated within a year by the newly elected Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA ) [ see p. 36523 ] .
3 In March 1916 he was sent to the front line in France .
4 In March 1679 he was appointed one of the five commissioners who replaced Danby at the Treasury , an appointment he held until his death .
5 Audley 's lands were confiscated in April 1321 and in March 1322 he was captured at Boroughbridge , in Yorkshire , where Lancaster 's forces were conclusively defeated .
6 In March 1981 it was reported from Nigeria that troops from the neighbouring Republic of Benin had occupied villages in Sokoto State .
7 In March 1404 he was nominated to serve on the king 's council , again as proof to sceptics of the king 's intentions to provide competent government .
8 Early in March 1979 they were summoned to Rabat .
9 In March 1250 he was appointed Chief justice of ‘ all the forests of England on both sides of the Trent ’ , so that the forest administration was once again united under a single head .
10 In March 1617 he was granted the profit on the extra import duty levied on the goods of foreign merchants entering the country ( a kind of revenue farm ) , in place of Lionel Cranfield ( later Earl of Middlesex , q.v. ) , who was moving on to higher things .
11 In March 1337 he was created Earl of Gloucester : a title which he owed to his wife 's inheritance , to his own services to the Crown , and to his popularity with the baronage .
12 In March 1485 he was sent to Portugal to pursue negotiations for a bride for the recently widowed king , and he was thus out of England when Richard III was killed at Bosworth .
13 In March 1604 he was returned MP for Andover ; in 1614 he succeeded to Rushbrooke Hall , and , with this new dignity , was elected MP for Suffolk .
14 In March 1990 it was reported that the target of a 6 per cent growth rate for 1989 had been reached and that inflation was falling .
15 He remained a frequent lecturer in the parish church of Allhallows , and in March 1652 he was appointed to the sequestered rectory of St Botolph 's Bishopsgate .
16 In March 1940 he was expelled from the Labour Party , and the University Labour Federation , which represented students of Labour sympathies , was disaffiliated for the same reason .
17 He joined the group planning a Puritan colony and in March 1630 he was named secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Company .
18 In February 1981 we were badly holed in a dispute with the National Union of Mineworkers .
19 World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty .
20 In February 1934 he was transported to Flores , the remote island in the Lesser Sundas , far from Java .
21 In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment .
22 In February 1992 he was sentenced to four years in prison , which he is currently serving in Sindos Military Prison near Thessaloniki .
23 In February 1991 he was still far from well .
24 Two years later Gloag became assistant in Scots law at Edinburgh University and in February 1905 he was appointed regius professor of law at Glasgow University .
25 England international Alf 's claim to fame is that he was the first £1,000 player when in February 1905 he was bought by Middlesbrough from Sunderland .
26 When the new C-in-C , Sir Arthur " Bert " Harris , assumed command in February 1942 he was compelled to accept the concept , against his adamant belief that a corps d'elite was damaging to the Command .
27 He was paid as such down to 1287 and in 1290 was still in possession of a key to the Jewish treasury , but it is doubtful whether he actually acted as a justice for most of this period , since in February 1283 he was appointed to the full-time position of escheator of England south of Trent .
28 In February 1940 she was writing to the Chief Rabbi to report on two of Solomon Schonfeld 's children who had turned up unannounced at Bloomsbury House .
29 Shortly after the opening of the Legislative Assembly in February 1990 it was calculated that there was a backlog of some 300 parliamentary bills awaiting debate .
30 In February 1990 I was one of the first two secondees from the accountancy profession to join the Investigations Division at the DTI .
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