Example sentences of "in [num] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 2 | In 1934 a Miss Kinzie was teaching lipreading in London and among her students was a Miss Cecilia Pollock , and her aunt , a Mrs Bagehot . |
| 3 | At Cambrai in 1076 a Cathar who had been judged heretical but not sentenced was being held in the local jail . |
| 4 | In 1838 a troop of Nottinghamshire dragoons and the metropolitan police were attacked with stones and bricks and in 1839 the government brought in the 5th Dragoon guards to suppress the bull-running once and for all . |
| 5 | In 1837 he received a silver Isis medal from the Society of Arts for his drawing of a marine steam engine , and in 1838 a silver Telford medal for his drawings and description of Huddert 's rope machinery . |
| 6 | On 4 December 1940 it is recorded that ‘ the child of Mrs McKinley was received as a Junior Member ’ and in 1943 a Cottage Meeting was started i the home of Mr and Mrs Walsh of Breagh and a good attendance was reported . |
| 7 | In 1943 a bomb entered the apex of the south wall , passed through the building and demolished the north wall , completely destroying the organ . |
| 8 | In 1795 he published Forty-eight views of the Lake District and Four Views of Wales , and in 1796 a Series of picturesque views of the North of England . |
| 9 | In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall . |
| 10 | But then in 1968 a Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty was signed , in 1971 a treaty was signed prohibiting the testing or use of nuclear weapons on the sea bed , and in 1972 three related treaties were signed in Moscow by Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon . |
| 11 | In 1967 the once impressive Manchester neighbourhood was declared an Urban Renewal Area by the federal government , in 1968 a Redevelopment Area by the City Commission and in 1971 a Title I Federal Urban Renewal Project . |
| 12 | However , in 1971 a sub-committee of a committee of the council recommended that there be increases , but later the chairman of the committee gave a public undertaking that the numbers would not be increased above 300 until a private Bill then being promoted had been enacted . |
| 13 | In 1850 a dragoman from the Russian consulate claimed , marvellously , to have seen the body of Alexander through a hole in a wooden door in the cellars of the mosque . |
| 14 | In the course of travels to find sources of bone-ash Albright met Anton Schrötter , who had published in 1850 a method of making the red , or amorphous , form of phosphorus , which was much less reactive than the white form . |
| 15 | In 1986 a law was passed that required donations to be valued at cost rather than an invented ‘ appreciated ’ value for tax purposes — though only in cases where the deductions would reduce the donor 's tax bill to zero . |
| 16 | Through SHACE , meetings of subject specialists , related to the Higher National Diploma , now take place and this organisation , under the chairmanship of a member of Sector O Board , was able to assist SCOTVEC when in 1986 a revision of the Higher National Diploma was required to retain exemption status from the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management ( HCIMA ) Professional examination . |
| 17 | In 1986 a New Zealand Royal Commission on the Electoral System recommended the adoption subject to approval in a referendum ( not yet held ) of what was basically the WGMS . |
| 18 | 1.3 In 1986 a Module Development Group was formed and considered the case for change . |
| 19 | The following year she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , and in 1986 a Lady Liveryman . |
| 20 | Mr. Burgess is a solicitor who was in 1986 a partner in the firm of Marsland and Barber of Margate . |
| 21 | In 1986 a report commissioned by the Home Office estimated that prison officers worked an average of 16 hours per week overtime , but that prisons could be run safely and efficiently if officers worked on average eight hours less but with revised shift systems and working practices . |
| 22 | In 1866 a fire was set deliberately , for insurance purposes , by a Mr Compere , who later received a ten year prison sentence for arson . |
| 23 | At Middlesbrough in 1829 a syndicate of six Quakers bought a site of five hundred acres beside the Tees , and created their planned town upon the empty farmland , drawing their straight lines and making their rectangles without hindrance from any legal or physical obstacle . |
| 24 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 25 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 26 | In 1935 a page by David Garnett in the New Statesman first introduced me to her work , and I saw that A House and Its Head was a book likely to give me quite peculiar pleasure . |
| 27 | In 1893 a clerk named Alexander Howland Smith , more familiarly known as ‘ Antique ’ Smith because of his activities , received a sentence of twelve months ' imprisonment for his forgeries of a wide range of letters , including some from Carlyle , Thackeray and Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 28 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
| 29 | In 1980 a US judge had suggested a figure of $3,000,000 , while the US government had demanded in 1988 that Chile pay $12,000,000 in compensation [ see p. 36346 ] . |
| 30 | In 1980 a computer built at Bell Labs began to win regularly , though not invariably , against masters . |