Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] [num] [Wh adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December the Economic Planning Board announced further measures to attract foreign investors in preparation for 1992 when the South Korean stock market was to be opened to foreigners . |
| 2 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 3 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 4 | The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands . |
| 5 | It was in use until 1968 when a new school was built . |
| 6 | A school for 150 children was built on the green , and remained in use until 1914 when a new school was built in Beverley Road . |
| 7 | It gained gradual acceptance in England , as witness certain entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , and had general application in the twelfth century , remaining in use until 1752 when the Historical year gained official approval . |
| 8 | Hastings will be the fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War in succession to the late Arthur Smith in South Africa in 1962 ; Mike Campbell-Lamerton in New Zealand in 1966 and Finlay Calder in Australia in 1989 when the combination of a Scotland captain and coach ended triumphant . |
| 9 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 10 | A pioneer attempt to overcome the problems of political remoteness was made in Lewis in 1943 when the Lewis Association was set up ‘ to survey and study the social and economic needs of the Island and to draw up progressive plans of development ’ . |
| 11 | One of the most infamous of all football riots took place in Glasgow in 1909 when a crowd of around 6,000 invaded the pitch at full time . |
| 12 | The right to be relieved in one 's parish , perhaps as much as aversion to the workhouse as an institution , lay behind riots in Suffolk in 1765 where a practice of building large workhouses to serve several parishes had been developing since a private enabling statute had been obtained in 1756 . |
| 13 | They include Willem de Ridder 's ‘ European Mail-Order Warehouse/Fluxshop ’ ( 1964–65 ) ; Ben Vautier 's ‘ Living Sculpture ’ , originally constructed for a Fluxus festival in London in 1962 when the artist inhabited a gallery window for fifteen days ; and a Flux-Labyrinth , a tactile obstacle course originally created in Berlin in 1976 . |