Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1925 Arsenal were defeated 7–0 at Newcastle . |
| 2 | In the autumn of 1929 Humphrys was appointed high commissioner ( from 1932 first British ambassador ) to the British mandated state of Iraq , where he stayed for six years . |
| 3 | In 1894 Marks was appointed consulting engineer to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and he built another cliff railway in Budapest , for which he was rewarded with a knighthood of the Ducal Order of Ernest . |
| 4 | In the previous survey in January 1991 Rentokil was placed 11th overall . |
| 5 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 6 | In 1877 Schnadhorst was appointed part-time secretary of the newly formed National Liberal Federation , while retaining his post with the Birmingham Liberal Association . |
| 7 | The candidature of two Whigs in tandem lost both the election , and in 1813 Creevey was found guilty of a libel on a Liverpool inspector of taxes and fined £100 . |
| 8 | A sharp downturn in 1920–1 was aggravated and by the middle of 1921 Britain was experiencing one of the worst recessions in its history , with unemployment rising to 2.4 million in May in that year ( 22 per cent of the insured labour force ) . |
| 9 | Note that , for historical reasons , the four bands of the Landsat 1–3 MSS are numbered 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 rather than 1–4 . |
| 10 | By 1969 Laura was spending much of her time poring over old books — the endpapers of novels were a rich source of small prints as were old plates , teapots , and patchwork quilts , in fact anything that caught her eye in a variety of odd shops . |
| 11 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 12 | By May of 1184 Barbarossa was taking further steps against southern Italy , consolidating his hold by negotiation with the new pope , Lucius III . |
| 13 | There were also special political factors at work : in 1992 Spain was to host both the Olympic Games and celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the ‘ discovery ’ of the Americas , and an improved rail transport system was seen as essential . |
| 14 | On Dec. 17 Gaidar was made presidential economic adviser and also took up the directorship of the Institute for the Problems of the Transition Period . |
| 15 | At the end of 1981 BNFL was holding 14.5 tonnes of separated plutonium at Sellafield ( the government has promised to update the tally as far as March 1983 and will report to parliament in June ) . |
| 16 | A special session of the National Council gave the Popular Front a number of ministerial positions in a new coalition government , and on May 18 Kambarov was appointed acting President pending new elections . |
| 17 | Further phone calls during the day produced the same result , and by four-thirty Claudia was getting worried . |
| 18 | In 1914 Powell was declared unfit for active service , but joined the Admiralty in 1916 . |
| 19 | Late request for the use of the hall for a Cub Disco on Friday 25 June was approved subject to availability . |
| 20 | Late request for the use of the hall for a Cub Disco on Friday 25 June was approved subject to availability . |
| 21 | In June 1948 France was promised various limits by America and Britain on German independence : industrial restrictions would remain , an ‘ International Authority ’ was established to control the coal and steel resources of the Ruhr valley — Germany 's industrial heartland — and a Military Security Board was set up to guarantee disarmament . |
| 22 | By a quarter to five Kathleen was having serious doubts about her sanity . |
| 23 | By 1800 Spain was producing more wheat at steadier prices than at any time since the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | In 1875 Stuart was elected first professor of mechanism and applied mechanics at Cambridge , and pioneered the new courses . |
| 25 | In 1942 McLachlan was appointed public analyst for Berkshire and the City of Oxford , and in partnership with F.A . |
| 26 | During the plague of 1665 Wilson was kept busy supplying the potions — many containing arsenic , antimony , and sulphur — with which physicians sought to control the disease . |
| 27 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |
| 28 | In 1901 Bolton was appointed first headmaster of the new day school at the Architectural Association . |
| 29 | If America 's ‘ trade ’ balance is measured on the basis of nationality of ownership rather than residency ( ie , adding the sales , net of local purchases , of overseas subsidiaries to the recorded trade balance and deducting all intra-firm flows to avoid double counting ) , then in 1986 America 's recorded visible-trade deficit of $144 billion is transformed into a $57 billion surplus . |
| 30 | When in Ephesians 4:3,4 Paul is sketching some of the things all Christians have in common , he has this to say : ‘ Endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace . |