Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 2 | At Wapping Wharf is a steam crane with a curved jib , built in 1875 and now preserved as an industrial exhibit — the only one of its kind left . |
| 3 | The outside of the building is decorated in fine style , but the eye is drawn to the centre of the facade , to the ancient tower of the city commune , built in 1272 but later remodelled in Baroque style . |
| 4 | The shop , established in 1934 and now run by the founder 's grandsons , is undoubtedly one of the most important delicatessens in the country , vast in its range of goods and uncompromising in its quality . |
| 5 | The cottage was transported ( creeper and all ! ) to Australia in 1934 and now stands in Fitzroy Gardens , Melbourne . |
| 6 | forest policies , securely ensconced in an effective and enforceable legislative infrastructure , which were inaugurated in 1891 and subsequently reinforced by later statutes ( Table 8.1 ) , were essential controls on the transposition of natural forests into managed forests . |
| 7 | Still on the Loire is the impressive Abbey of Fontevrault , founded in 1098 and originally covering a tremendous area with four convents and supporting buildings of which a number remain . |
| 8 | The foresters used this customary toll as a pretext for extortion : the Charter of the Forest therefore conceded in 1217 that henceforth cheminage might be exacted only by foresters of fee paying the king a farm for their bailiwicks . |
| 9 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 10 | Our only non-biological scientist was Elizabeth Stewart ( Mrs Fyfe ) who returned to Aberdeen to marry in 1943 and later emigrated to Halifax , Nova Scotia where her husband became Professor of Anatomy . |
| 11 | The cup went absent without leave in 1971 but later re-appeared . |
| 12 | The strong showing of the two environmental parties — the Greens and Ecology Generation — who clearly benefited from a haemorrhage of votes from the socialists , must have convinced the President that the old party pulled together by him in 1971 and still led by its familiar herd of ‘ pink elephants ’ was doomed . |
| 13 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 14 | The Northern Ireland Office resolved the dilemma by a decision to crush the Provisionals on the cheap by re-introducing the interrogation ‘ in depth ’ techniques ( the hooding and noise were excluded ) used on IRA suspects in 1971 and subsequently condemned by both the European Commission and Court of Human Rights . |
| 15 | This is the site of the beginning of the Louth to Tetney Navigation Canal , which was completed in 1770 and still retains something of its former atmosphere because of the presence of some mellow old warehouses . |
| 16 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |
| 17 | Now , their main hopes rest on the striker Dariusz Dziekanowski , a deep disappointment to his countrymen when Poland lost to Gary Lineker 's hat-trick in Monterey in 1986 but lately revived by a transfer to Celtic , for whom he vainly scored four goals in that extraordinary roller-coaster of a European tie against Partizan Belgrade at Parkhead 13 days ago . |
| 18 | They started training in 1986 and initially spent 36 weeks on block-release at college learning basic engineering skills , fabrication , machining , fitting and basic electrical work . |
| 19 | The maize had been brought from Yugoslavia to Greece in two shiploads in 1986 and then resold as Greek maize by ITCO , a state-owned trading company , after the customs documents had been forged . |
| 20 | Typical of these is A Glossary of the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes , first published in 1886 and later reprinted , in Guernsey , in 1980 . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was then , rather than in 1290 as often supposed , that the priory presented him to the rectory of North Marston ( Buckinghamshire ) , where his cult was to develop , and which he held until his death . |
| 22 | Hertha Ayrton carried on with the experiments during her husband 's absence in America in 1893 and subsequently became the leading authority on the subject . |
| 23 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 24 | A big move was also made by Fred Couples , America 's leading money-winner this season , when he went out in 32 and then made further birdies at the 10th and 13th . |
| 25 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 26 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 27 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 28 | Having been burned in 1933 and nearly destroyed in 1945 , it became a symbol of Democracy in a divided city , standing empty beside the Wall and prevented , by the threat of Soviet veto , from serving any purpose . |
| 29 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 30 | The Old English Pearmain , recorded in 1204 and so named because of its pear-like shape , was the main dessert apple until well into the eighteenth century . |