Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bratina emigrated to the United States in 1927 and earned a graduate degree in economics at New York University . |
| 2 | Brazil achieved independence from Portugal in 1822 and became a federal republic in 1889 . |
| 3 | He was born in Coleraine in 1863 and entered the Ministry in 1885 . |
| 4 | He condemned the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 and visited the grave of Imre Nagy , the leader of the revolutionary government during the uprising who was subsequently executed . |
| 5 | The project follows a preliminary visit to Syria in 1988 and involves a total of seven months of anthropological fieldwork in the country . |
| 6 | ‘ According to Rose , he was at a factory in Anduze by nine and spent the rest of the morning there . |
| 7 | After a two-year tour of the Continent , he returned to England in 1799 and started a veterinary practice at 17 Giltspur Street , mainly among brewery horses and those of a similar type . |
| 8 | He returned to England in 1852 and planned the North London Railway 's Bow locomotive and carriage works , becoming locomotive and carriage superintendent in 1854 . |
| 9 | He had already left the Free Church of Scotland in 1873 and joined the more liberal United Presbyterians . |
| 10 | ‘ Being a soldier appealed to me , ’ said Mr MacConachie , who came to England at 16 and joined the Army . |
| 11 | Avtar , who arrived in England aged 12 and speaking no English , spent two years working with community radio in Los Angeles . |
| 12 | David Hill 's Turner and the Thames traces Turner 's journeys along the Thames during 1805 and charts the artist 's relationship with the river through topographical and social history relating to the paintings . |
| 13 | He was brought out of retirement after US troops invaded Grenada in 1983 and overthrew the island 's Marxist government . |
| 14 | Australian expat Peter Windsor , Williams team manager and former Autocar sports editor , is following the example of Prost in 1992 and taking a season off . |
| 15 | This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year . |
| 16 | The second is ‘ Le chien Barbet ’ by Chardin , sold by Tajan in 1988 and depicting a hunting dog sniffing at a hare and duck hanging from an urn . |
| 17 | He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916–17 and became an alderman in 1921 . |
| 18 | Liliane Lijn 's first Poem Machines were made in Paris in 1962 and exhibited the next year at the beatnik headquarters of La Librairie Anglaise . |
| 19 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 20 | His brother William , who had started a ‘ cabinet of curiosities ’ in Birmingham in 1800 , moved to Liverpool in 1801 and opened a museum . |
| 21 | Steers was granted the freedom of the borough of Liverpool in 1713 and established a flourishing anchor smithy near the dock . |
| 22 | He attended a meeting at Lund in Sweden in 1952 and thought the atmosphere happy but the meeting useless and wondered whether the day of such occasions was not past . |
| 23 | He was appointed to Londonderry in 1893 and founded the Londonderry City Mission in 1894 . |
| 24 | A member of the Commonwealth , Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 and became a republic in 1970 . |
| 25 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 26 | J. J. H. Teall succeeded Geikie in 1901 and instituted a programme of beneficial changes in organisation and policy . |
| 27 | He returned to his native Sheffield in 1845 and took the Crown and Anchor Hotel at the top of Bright Street before becoming landlord of the Adelphi . |
| 28 | While the new president , Algirdas Brazauskas , was leader of the Baltic state 's Communist party , it was also he who led the split with the central authorities in Moscow in 1989 and supported the country 's moves to independence . |
| 29 | Cicognara 's notable library was acquired by the Vatican in 1824 and forms the topic of one of the talks at the conference 's first session , which is on ‘ The History of Art Libraries : L. Cicognara and his models ’ . |
| 30 | A Dakota III , it flew with 5 Wing from February 1944 ( as 6819 ) , joined SAA in 1949 and rejoined the SAAF ( now as 6886 ) in February 1971 , serving with 44 Squadron . |