Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 2 | Syngman Rhee was born in 1875 into a branch of the royal family but one lacking in wealth . |
| 3 | In Skircoat Moor Road is a slender octagonal tower 253 feet high which was built in 1875 as a chimney for the dye-works of J.E . |
| 4 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 5 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 6 | Perhaps Wright 's success is best symbolized by the construction in 1869 of the roof of St Pancras station , a 240-foot tied arch of cast iron , weighing 9,000 tons , with no intermediate structure , probably then the largest single span of its kind in the world . |
| 7 | This somewhat uncourageous solution was confirmed in 1869 by a convention between Turkey and Persia in which each side undertook to respect the status quo until a settlement was arrived at . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Even longer-serving was Mr. Edwin Bromley , who had arrived in 1934 as a member of both the teaching staff and the maintenance department . |
| 10 | He founded the Editions de Cluny in 1934 with the intention of introducing the wider public to great works of art . |
| 11 | The ULF had been founded in 1920 but remained a small organization affiliated to the Labour Party in 1934 on a membership of only three hundred . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | School-based assessment panels were established in St Augustine 's in 1979–80 for a number of reasons . |
| 14 | Warner entered the household of Henry Percy , ninth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , in 1590 as a gentleman servitor , becoming a pensioner in 1617 . |
| 15 | The Abbey Lane Pumping Station at the junction of the Leicester Canal with the River Soar , a mile north of the city centre in Corporation Road , was built in 1891 as a sewage pumping works . |
| 16 | One of the two cars which replaced the trailers in 1891 outside the depot . |
| 17 | Charles crossed the River Elbe in 789 with an army of Franks , Frisians and Saxons . |
| 18 | At the same time the collapse of the American silk market in 1929–30 following the onset of the Great Depression brought a fall in silk prices of cataclysmic proportions . |
| 19 | Shakespeare partly-owned the Globe , which was built in 1599 and rebuilt in 1614 after a fire in 1613 started by a cannon used as a prop . |
| 20 | On your immediate right is the tiny , oval Chapel of the Assumption built in 1590–7 as the Chapel of the Brotherhood of Italian Painters , Sculptors and Masons . |
| 21 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 22 | Euler proved it in 1736 by the method of exercise 1.4.17 and later generalised it . |
| 23 | By 1940 , unemployment was nearly 50% less than in 1932 ; but even in the best pre-war year ( 1937 ) one in eight of the labour force was out of work . |
| 24 | One in eight of the population over 65 is severely disabled , and twice that number moderately disabled ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 6 ) . |
| 25 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 26 | Instead of an obsession with Germany 's position , should we not be obsessed with what is happening in Croatia , where one in eight of the population has been displaced , we have provided only £77,000 in humanitarian aid and the people are being pounded into the ground ? |
| 27 | A young care-leaver 's chances of being made a housing priority vary from one in three in Scotland to one in four in a London borough or metropolitan authority , to only one in eight in the South of England . |
| 28 | Edward Bohun , a younger brother of the Earl of Hereford , received 400 marks , worth of land and was granted the office of Constable in view of the infirmity of the earl himself ; John Neville of Hornby and Robert de Ufford , a knight of Suffolk who had served in Gascony in 1324–5 with the Earl of Rent , were given 200 marks for ‘ helping in the same enterprise ’ . |
| 29 | The workhouse , erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of £2,000 , was built to accommodate 170 inmates . |
| 30 | The Elizabethan World Picture appeared in 1943 during a period when many feared for the collapse of western civilisation . |