Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 2 | Brian Lara hit 59 , the same score as opposition skipper Javed Miandad , who steered Pakistan to 199-5 in the final over . |
| 3 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 4 | Ultimately , in May of 1568 in the 10th year of her reign , the Queen incorporated " The Governors , Assistants , and Commonalty for the Mines Royal " , reciting the Letters Patent granted to Thurland and Höchstetter on 10 October 1564 . |
| 5 | As Edward VII , he took a major step in healing any rift between the two countries when he met the Czar during a trip to Russia in 1908 in an attempt to win his support against the German Kaiser . |
| 6 | The Soviet Union had broken diplomatic relations with Albania in 1961 in the wake of the Sino-Soviet dispute ; China and Albania remained friendly until 1978 . |
| 7 | Joining B. A. Morel and W. Griesinger in 1867 in a consultation of eminent European alienists to assess the mental state of the ( Habsburg ) Archduchess Charlotte , empress of Mexico , he became an honorary member of the Imperial Society of Physicians of Vienna and the Medico-Psychological Society of Paris . |
| 8 | Brearley notes a rate of one physician per 338 people for western European countries , but it ranges from 1:296 in Spain to 1:575 in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Imagine calling Maggie at six in the morning ! |
| 10 | The next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council is on Thursday 21 January at 7.30 in the C E School . |
| 11 | Glamorgan Colt all rounder Ben Thomas claimed 4–48 as Builth Wells dismissed Burghill for 186 in the only game to get underway in the Multisigns Marches League . |
| 12 | The embalming involved three stages , a précis of which was published by Jessie Dobson in 1953 in the Journal of the History of Medicine . |
| 13 | He began his career at Chapelcross in 1959 in the Project Planning and Inspection Department . |
| 14 | The road , which is an important link in Rome 's traffic system , was constructed on orders of Mussolini in 1931–32 in the hope that this highway through the remains of classical Rome would enhance his fascist regime with echoes of Imperial grandeur . |
| 15 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 16 | ‘ Budyko thinks climate change is the best thing since sliced bread , ’ said a US scientist at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva in 1989 in a conversation with the author . |
| 17 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |
| 18 | A fortnight before Anna and Peter were married , Anna 's father was knocked down in the Fulham Road at two in the morning by a van driving without headlights . |
| 19 | As he entered Beresforde Road at three in the morning his eyes were everywhere , remembering the juggernaut which had put him in hospital . |
| 20 | Slow left-armer Tufnell had just removed opener Navjot Sidhu for 79 in the 13th over of the day , to leave India 174 for two , when Kambli charged Emburey but failed to connect properly . |
| 21 | So wrote Victor Hugo in 1867 in a guide book to Paris , thereby paying tribute to his enemy Napoleon III , for it was he who was in the process of transforming the city . |
| 22 | The classic example was discovered by the French biologists François Jacob and Jacques Monod in 1959 in the bacterium Escherichia coli ( see Figure 9 ) . |
| 23 | Tennant took over at Guinness in 1987 in the wake of the scandal following its hostile take-over of Distillers ; the company is now the seventh-biggest in Britain with a stock-market value of £10.7 billion . |
| 24 | Griffiths , who took Hendry to 9-7 in the UK semi-final , made an academic 46 break at the conclusion of the first frame . |
| 25 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |
| 26 | Darren Bicknell ( 33 ) and Alistair Brown smashed 56 off just over five overs — Bicknell hooking Mark Ilott for six in the paceman 's opening over while Brown 's 36 came off 21 balls and included two sixes and two fours . |
| 27 | Figure 6.6(a) shows the population structure of Peru in 1983 in the form of a population pyramid in which each of the rows represents a 10-year age-group with the lowest row representing the youngest age-group . |
| 28 | Lanham 's view that rape can be a perfectly understandable and forgivable way of dealing with the problems of a marriage echoes that expressed by Lord Dunedin in 1924 in a matrimonial case involving a wife who refused to consummate her marriage . |
| 29 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 30 | A possible role for triglyceride in the pathogenesis of macrovascular disease of diabetes mellitus was postulated by Albrink in 1963 in a retrospective study of 139 patients ( Albrink et al , 1963 ) . |