Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 2 | But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called . |
| 3 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 4 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 5 | In the eighteenth century this was wrongly equated with Lucas de Heere [ q.v. ] and it was only in 1913 that ( Sir ) Lionel Cust [ q.v. ] made the connection with Eworth , thanks to his listing as a painter in the inventory made out in 1590 of the pictures belonging to John , first Baron Lumley [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | While there was no record of the outcome in eight of the cases , seventeen men received prison sentences of two years or more and one other was sent to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 7 | The age of the victim was not always clear , but about one in eight of the cases involved children under the age of 10 . |
| 8 | Full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were obtained in eight of the children . |
| 9 | The new service was introduced in 1635 on the roads between London and Edinburgh , Plymouth , and Chester and Holyhead ( for Ireland ) , and on by-roads off these major routes . |
| 10 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 11 | Rolls-Royce collapsed in 1971 under the strains of developing the RB211 aero engine , and was nationalised by Edward Heath 's Conservative government , unwilling to see such an important part of British industry going bankrupt . |
| 12 | This court was set up in 1971 by the Courts Act . |
| 13 | This was opened in 1986 under the auspices of the Drugs Council and a local housing trust . |
| 14 | In a final statement issued at the close of the talks the group agreed to conduct an " urgent review " of the member countries ' negotiating positions towards finding greater flexibility and facilitating a breakthrough at the deadlocked " Uruguay Round " of global trade talks launched in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 37227-28 for most recent developments in Uruguay Round negotiations ] . |
| 15 | Stoddard 's previous success was in 1986 with the Variations Tufted package . |
| 16 | The political storm generated in 1986 by the proposals to sell various parts of Rover to foreign competition had not been forgotten and the government was keen to avoid a repetition of this , particularly if unpopular rationalisation and plant closures were involved . |
| 17 | Nicholson writes in 1861 in the Annals of Kendal of ‘ hosiers attending Markets to collect stockings and give out worsted . ’ |
| 18 | In two-thirds of the cases however , the person receiving such a summons never returned it . |
| 19 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 20 | The neo-Gothic Wool Exchange ( still used for trading in wool by dealers from home and abroad ) in Market Street is a Victorian extravaganza built in 1864–7 by the architects Lockwood and Mawson , who also designed Bradford 's Town Hall . |
| 21 | Cairo and Karachi have particularly high lead levels , Los Angeles , Sao Paulo and Tokyo have serious ozone problems and airborne dirt is a problem in 12 of the cities . |
| 22 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 23 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 24 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 25 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
| 26 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 27 | Yet , in spite of the aggressive spirit found among many of the nobility on both sides of the Channel , and of Richard II 's personal participation in an expedition in 1385 against the Scots , at that moment in receipt of French assistance , the idea of peace was now increasingly in the air . |
| 28 | Further attacks near al-Amarah came in mid-1985 with the offensives named al-Qods ( Jerusalem ) Nos 2 and 4 . |
| 29 | For example , if you had started a savings plan in 1900 for £1 per month at 8% interest you would receive £249,033.53 in 1993 with an earnings ratio of 22214.83% ! |
| 30 | The Japanese work on SEMP drives began in 1985 under the auspices of the Ship and Ocean Foundation . |