Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | , John William ( 1875–1949 ) , inventor and philosopher , was born in 1875 in South Africa , the elder son among the three children of General Sir John Hart Dunne , KCB , of Cartron , Roscommon , and his wife Julia Elizabeth , daughter of William R. Chapman of Whitby , Yorkshire . |
2 | His early education is unknown , but he attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute before enrolling in 1875 in Columbia University School of Mines . |
3 | Born in 1771 at Newtown ( q.v . ) , |
4 | The obelisk , erected in 1771 in honour of Brass Crosby , Lord Mayor of London , used to stand in St George 's Circus , DC 12 ; PP 43 . |
5 | The mill was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) , at a time when growing discontent among textile workers was emerging as a threat to machinery , and the austere — not to say grim — building looks like a fortress , though the original mill has been much altered and extended . |
6 | Return to Husova Street and to the Church of St Giles ( St Jiljí ) , first built in 1339–71 by John of Dražice and Arnošt of Pardubice , who had it built as a hall church . |
7 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
8 | The first came in 1977–8 against Australia and he began with fifties in his first three innings , only to join the Packer brigade and miss out for a couple of years . |
9 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
10 | Stolen in 1933 , it was taken to Prague in 1934 for restoration after its recovery . |
11 | She was the losing finalist in the English Championship both in 1933 and 1934 having , in 1934 at Seacroft , survived a match against the mysterious Gloria Minoprio , the first woman to wear trousers and a player who carried but a single club . |
12 | For example , a substance which lowered the blood pressure was first discovered in 1934 in extracts of the prostate gland and in semen . |
13 | This experimental wide beam motor boat was built in 1934 by Bushell Bros at Tring for the Grand Union Central Company . |
14 | The mural in dispute is a huge six-panel 110 x 8 ft oil on canvas depiction of heroic workers and serene family life painted in 1934 by James Daugherty for Stamford High School , in a Connecticut city about forty miles from New York . |
15 | The three pieces were originally bought in 1934 by Mr O'Sullivan 's grandfather , Michael , at a public auction at Dromore Castle for £49 . |
16 | On grounds of style and also of known associations , several works can be attributed to Orchard : the Harcourt aisle ( c .1470 ) of Stanton Harcourt church and ‘ Pope 's Tower ’ there ; the church of South Leigh , a chapelry of Stanton ; and an aisle of the church in Waterstock built in 1500–1 for Thomas Danvers , lord of the manor and one of Waynflete 's agents . |
17 | In uncontrolled studies , the use of heater probe in active bleeding ulcers or in ulcers with stigmata of recent haemorrhage , achieves haemostasis in 75 to 100% of cases , and in 69 to 86% of patients the control of bleeding is definitive . |
18 | It is climbing the 1 in 75 of Ashley Hill Bank Bristol . |
19 | A literal interpretation of these terms would mean that on the second rent review date what was to be assumed was a lease expiring in 2025 with rent reviews in 2005 and 2010 only , leaving fifteen years without review at the end of the hypothetical lease . |
20 | It is disappointing that the report of the unique legatine mission to England in 786 of Theophylact , bishop of Todi , and George , bishop of Ostia , as emissaries of Pope Hadrian I , accompanied by Abbot Wigbod representing Charlemagne , contains no reference to this matter . |
21 | At the other end of Europe Roger II of Sicily promulgated his codes in 1129 at Melfi and in 1140 at Ariano ; they contained much that was traditional , much that was Roman ; much that was new ; and the idea of making some unity in the chaotic laws of his kingdom was especially novel . |
22 | Now , as a remarkable result of the ‘ Velvet Revolution ’ , the monks are returning to this great Premonstratensian monastery , founded in 1140 by Vladislav II . |
23 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
24 | At the time of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti-perhaps in 844/1440–1 on Molla Yegan 's resigning his posts , but in any case not later than 848/1444 the Darulhadis would probably have been the one important medrese in Edirne founded by the reigning sultan , Murad II , since his other complex including a medrese , the Uc Serefeli , though begun in 841/1438 , was not completed until 851/1447 . |
25 | Richard landed here in 1191 in pursuit of his bride Berengaria . |
26 | Rotz was acclaimed in 1568 by Nicolas de Nicolay , ‘ premier Cosmographe du Roy ’ , as one of the greatest French navigators , and although his role as a hydrographer is not recorded in the early chronicles of Dieppe , his ‘ Boke ’ ranks as one of the greatest maritime atlases of the Renaissance . |
27 | Across the road at 13/597 , again with Romanesque foundations , is a Baroque palace built in 1756 by Count Jan Caretto Millesimovský and designed by Anselmo Lurago . |
28 | Ray and her sister were baptized Catholics , but after their mother 's elopement in 1891 with Bernhard Berenson , the art critic , they were brought up by their Quaker grandmother , Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith . |
29 | The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 . |
30 | Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 . |