Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 with the southern third of the country disposed of , attention was turned towards the Highlands . |
| 2 | Built in 1934 for the infamous 1936 Hitler Olympics , when the black hero of America , Jesse Owens , smashed the formidable sprint opposition of Germany , the stadium had withstood the Allied bombings during the war and became a symbol of a new Germany when Berlin was split in half by the Wall . |
| 3 | One of Turner 's earliest known wrought-iron conservatories was the range erected in 1836–7 at the vice-regal lodge in Phoenix Park , Dublin . |
| 4 | In addition , the temporal basis of North American forest use has varied in relation to the extension of early colonial settlers across the continent , but as Table 8.1 illustrates , the turning-point in US forest history came in 1891 with the General Revision Act . |
| 5 | Lind confessed in 1891 to the Royal Commission that " unfortunately the new unionism has swallowed up our members . |
| 6 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 7 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 8 | One in five young people receives higher education , compared with only one in eight under the last Labour Government . |
| 9 | In eight of the nine Newham cases , but in only two of the nine Ipswich cases , the development officer continually assessed the situation as unproblematic ; in these cases there was good informal care and/or good home help provision . |
| 10 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 11 | In eight of the 11 patients , full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were available for histological examination . |
| 12 | In some countries , at certain times , the consensus has been anti-inflationary : this has generally been the case in Germany , although the ‘ independent ’ Bundesbank has not prevented inflation being above 5% in eight of the last 20 years , quite apart from the monetary difficulties of German Monetary Union . |
| 13 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 14 | Her monograph , The Metabolism of Fat , published in 1943 as the first of Methuen 's monographs in biochemistry , summarized her views on the field , in which she was by then a recognized authority . |
| 15 | The ‘ Hope Dionysus ’ is famous as a central work in the collection of Henry Philip Hope , who acquired it in 1796 from the influential sculptor and restorer Vincenzo Pacetti , who attached Dionysus 's head to the torso and supplied the larger figure with arms , lower legs and other details . |
| 16 | His impassioned Contrasts ( 1836 ) is a manifesto , both visual and verbal , for the Gothic , for it contrasts a town in 1440 with the same town in 1840 ( Fig. 30 ) , a comparison in which 1840 fails in every respect . |
| 17 | After the lifting of the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviets in 1948 despite the Four Power agreement , the two Germanys were formally established as separate republics . |
| 18 | Barber may best be remembered as a founder member in 1948 of the Fine Chemicals Group of the Society of Chemical Industry , and later as its chairman . |
| 19 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 20 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 21 | The defence is still stout , but the manner less confident than that of Lord James ten years before , or of Goronwy Rees writing in 1971 about the 1920s . |
| 22 | This month , the museum reopens its renovated quarters , a two-towered structure finished in 1971 by the Italian architect Gio Ponti ( the only building Ponti constructed in the United States ) . |
| 23 | These snapshots , never previously exhibited , cover the period from Big Shot in 1971 until the final months of his life . |
| 24 | Mr Farrelly , a Democrat , entered office in 1986 amid the general expectation that he would be able to solve many of the islands ' problems . |
| 25 | On July 29 the Northern Ireland appeal court in Belfast released three out of four of the former Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) members imprisoned for life in 1986 for the 1983 murder of a Catholic man [ see p. 34318 ] . |
| 26 | In 1986 of the 322.7 million population of the EC , 140.8 m. were economically active , either employed or unemployed . |
| 27 | No company seized the opportunity to record Sir Charles Mackerras 's fine performance in 1986 of The Golden Legend , the last and best of the major choral works . |
| 28 | It is also apparent that the cities have suffered as a result of the abolition in 1986 of the metropolitan counties and the Greater London Council . |
| 29 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 30 | All three had been convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murder of the Belau President , Haruo Remeliik but had been freed on appeal [ see pp. 33995-96 ; 35003 ; 35648 ] . |