Example sentences of "in [num] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victory in the Open in 1934 changed everything , as Cotton knew it would . |
| 2 | The illustration of Clifton Hill with its icy reserve and its windows cut directly into the ashlar without surrounds is easily the most stylistically advanced in The Complete Body of Architecture that Ware published in 1756 to celebrate his life 's work . |
| 3 | He was dismissed by the prince of Wales in 1747 , and the loss of Minorca in 1756 cost him his receivership . |
| 4 | One in eight said they would prefer to have the instalments collected individually . |
| 5 | After he had completed his apprenticeship he went out to India as manager of the Fort Gloster mills , but after three years returned to Glasgow and in 1838 joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine accessories . |
| 6 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 7 | Käthe Kollwitz , who was an honourary member from 1940 to 1943 and Oda Schottmüller the resistance fighter who was killed by the Nazis in 1943 retained their membership . |
| 8 | Daphne Rye , the top casting director , looked after him following his demob and in 1948 ushered him into the West End in a literary play — from a book by Elizabeth Bowen — Castle Anna , which Daphne herself directed . |
| 9 | Always involved in his father 's ventures , he decided after Sir Malcolm 's death in 1948 to defend his water title , set at 141.74 m.p.h. in 1939 , using his father 's boat . |
| 10 | The publication of Alfred Kinsey 's report on the sexual practices of the human male in 1948 attracted its fair share of opprobrium . |
| 11 | ‘ The Arabs went to war with us in 1948 to destroy our Jewish state . |
| 12 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 13 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 14 | The Bakufu 's inability to demonstrate military superiority over Choshú0 late in 1866 made it apparent to all that the Tokugawa no longer possessed the force majeure on which their power ultimately depended , and with their opponents allied with each other under the banner of imperial rule the Tokugawa 's fate was sealed . |
| 15 | In Britain the founding of the Board of Trade Journal in 1886 did something to improve the hitherto often dilatory and irregular publication of consular reports , while the Russian government published such material regularly from the 1890s . |
| 16 | A graduate of Manchester University , he trained as a teacher of the deaf , and in 1935 succeeded his father as missioner in the Carlisle diocese . |
| 17 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 18 | He came back twice , and in 1861 wrote his poem ‘ In the Valley of Cauterets ’ : |
| 19 | One guide in 1861 ranked it with St Paul 's and Buckingham Palace and began its report : ‘ We are not a race of giants , but we enter on gigantic works . |
| 20 | As the DES decided in 1980 to discontinue its approval arrangements for OND by 1982 and for other courses by 1981 , the Association of County Councils and the Standing Conference of Regional Advisory Councils agreed to set up a national committee , namely the NCCAE , to replace the role of the DES . |
| 21 | Both Martin Spencer and Vivian Bone , who joined EUP from Oxford University Press in 1980 to boost its editorial coverage , worked as commissioning editors , ensuring that the dramatic expansion did not mean any lowering of standards . |
| 22 | Catrain first wrote to the French embassy in Moscow in 1980 asking it to tell his brothers and sisters that he was alive . |
| 23 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |
| 24 | In 1976 Maria Morris Hambourg began to study the collection and Atget 's life and work and in 1980 completed her doctoral dissertation " Eugene Atget , 1857–1927 : The Structure of the Work " ( Columbia University ) . |
| 25 | When Lord Hawke in 1925 made his famous remark about the undesirability of a professional ever captaining England , Fender responded in the socialist Daily Herald by calling his lordship 's comments ‘ a gratuitous insult ’ to professional cricketers . |
| 26 | The martyrdom of his father in 203 left him with a cold antipathy to the pagan establishment , whether in government or in high culture . |
| 27 | On one wall hangs ‘ The Oath of Princess Isabel ’ , a painting by Victor Meirelles of Lima executed in 1872 to celebrate her first regency . |
| 28 | He bought the eighteenth-century Letheringsett Hall from the Breretons , and in 1808 engulfed it in Greece , adding this south front of giant Doric columns , which were an exact copy of the temple of Delos on Isis . |
| 29 | Only during the prolonged crisis caused by the opposition of the reforming Ordainers to the king 's favourite , Piers Gaveston [ q.v. ] , in 1310–12 did his loyalties waver . |
| 30 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |