Example sentences of "but in [num] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1428 they had established a city state , nurtured by food production on the lake margins , but in 1521 the state fell to Cortés and Mexico was annexed by Spain . |
| 2 | But in 1878 the building goods station was merged with the coal station and La Chapelle-Annexe was built to receive all bulk goods , including building materials . |
| 3 | But in 1957 the law , in its wisdom , declared his bequest invalid . |
| 4 | Phourni 's Tholos ‘ A ’ had its main chamber robbed in antiquity , but in 1965 the side chamber yielded the first untouched high-status burial of Minoan Crete . |
| 5 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 6 | But in 1976 the recruitment market was dire and she was advised to take any job offered . |
| 7 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
| 8 | But in 1963 the Salvation Army decided to pull out of Chipping Norton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But in 1980 the play acting suddenly became real . |
| 11 | After 1937 the centre of power in the Party appeared to be moving towards the individual membership , but in 1939 the union leaders showed their strength in ensuring the expulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps and his supporters . |
| 12 | As regards the loans , prior to 1979 Jesner had lent money interest free to Jarrad , but in 1979 the position was reversed , with Jarrad lending interest-free to Jesner . |
| 13 | But in 1979 the creation of peace was clearly a settling of an account : should a quarrel between a Zuwaya and men from Zliten occur in the future , that particular issue could not become a component element of it , for all the shaikhs concerned had agreed that the peace made was a good one . |
| 14 | ’ But in 1937 the Law Revision Committee , 6th Interim Report , para. 22 , p. 16 , referred to ‘ the problem , still unsolved , of discovering the consideration for a debtor 's composition with his creditors . ’ |
| 15 | In the pioneering days of the festival this was undoubtedly true but in 1992 the quantity and quality of available music has increased enormously and amateurs and professionals vie with one another for audiences . |
| 16 | But in 1992 the company lost its edge . |
| 17 | But in 1966 the Lord Chancellor , Lord Gardiner , with the concurrence of the Law Lords , announced that in future the House would regard itself as free to ‘ depart from a previous decision when it appears right to do so ’ . |
| 18 | But in 1986 the governor led a successful campaign by the state 's voters to remove the chief justice , Miss Rose Bird , and her two liberal colleagues . |
| 19 | This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes . |
| 20 | Between 1971 and 1980 local authority and new town completions averaged 143,000 dwellings a year , but in 1981 the figure plummeted to 68,000 and in 1987 it reached an all-time low of 22,000 . |
| 21 | In 992 the navy was seemingly formed from vessels already in existence , but in 1008 the Chronicle says that they were built . |
| 22 | But in 1899 the principle of transporting all parcels by passenger train was abandoned and a new parcels station ( Paris-Messageries ) was established at the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis . |
| 23 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 24 | Some separate engravings of London markets were issued in 1822 , but in 1824 the shop was closed , and he concentrated on his new career . |
| 25 | After initial difficulties , they succeeded in producing aluminium of high purity but in 1889 the process was rendered obsolete by the advent of a much cheaper electrochemical process invented independently in France and the USA . |
| 26 | But in 1987 the party , at all levels , was forced to accept that many of Labour 's traditional policies — not merely its recently acquired ones — were electorally unsaleable . |
| 27 | But in 1920 the economy began to decline , unemployment rose and the government committed itself to following the advice of the Cunliffe Committee to return to the gold standard by 1925 . |
| 28 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 29 | He lived with a farmer at Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , but in 1785 the farmer died and soon afterwards Peter died too . |
| 30 | That first walk was open to those living or having businesses within six miles of Bradford , but in 1906 the walk was opened to all amateurs in the country and was considered to be the unofficial championship of England . |