Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum . |
| 2 | He subsequently took out a number of patents in these two fields , the most valuable being in 1875 for the making of copper rollers for calico printing . |
| 3 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 4 | Syngman Rhee was born in 1875 into a branch of the royal family but one lacking in wealth . |
| 5 | In Skircoat Moor Road is a slender octagonal tower 253 feet high which was built in 1875 as a chimney for the dye-works of J.E . |
| 6 | However , the first working-class terraced houses were already being built on Everton Road , a street that was to be described in 1875 as ‘ a dense thoroughfare of a somewhat shabby and second rate character ’ . |
| 7 | In 1875 with the southern third of the country disposed of , attention was turned towards the Highlands . |
| 8 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 9 | Wheat and rye were first crossed in 1875 by a Scottish botanist , Stephen Wilson , but the results were disappointing . |
| 10 | The church of St Peter was built in 1875 by public subscription , and contains several fine stained glass windows . |
| 11 | As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour . |
| 12 | They were in their time incomparably more famous and influential than Marx , whose Capital was described in 1875 by an anonymous German expert as the work of a self-educated man ignorant of the progress of the past twenty-five years . |
| 13 | , John William ( 1875–1949 ) , inventor and philosopher , was born in 1875 in South Africa , the elder son among the three children of General Sir John Hart Dunne , KCB , of Cartron , Roscommon , and his wife Julia Elizabeth , daughter of William R. Chapman of Whitby , Yorkshire . |
| 14 | His early education is unknown , but he attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute before enrolling in 1875 in Columbia University School of Mines . |
| 15 | Only one prisoner is known to have escaped unaided in 1875 after scaling the 20 ft boundary wall . |
| 16 | Hooper continued to run the business until his death in 1869 following which his son , Charles Henry , took over . |
| 17 | This body was founded in 1869 for the purpose of publishing not only the manuscripts of the heraldic visitations but other ‘ inedited ’ documents of a related nature . |
| 18 | But the distinction between Public and grammar remained unclear , although the lines were sharpened by the creation in 1869 of the Headmasters ' Conference and the consequent definition of an inner circle of boys ' Public Schools , properly so called . |
| 19 | The final chapter in the story of imprisonment for debt came eight years later with the simultaneous passing in 1869 of the Debtors Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 62 ) and the Bankruptcy Act ( 32 & 33 Victoria cap 71 ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps Wright 's success is best symbolized by the construction in 1869 of the roof of St Pancras station , a 240-foot tied arch of cast iron , weighing 9,000 tons , with no intermediate structure , probably then the largest single span of its kind in the world . |
| 21 | This somewhat uncourageous solution was confirmed in 1869 by a convention between Turkey and Persia in which each side undertook to respect the status quo until a settlement was arrived at . |
| 22 | Born in 1771 at Newtown ( q.v . ) , |
| 23 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 24 | Stephen , indeed , had written in 1771 to another botanist saying ‘ our country produces but few uncommon plants : we have no mountains , few woods or marshes . ’ |
| 25 | Arthur Young in 1771 on his eastern tour found the dairymaids earned an average of £3 12s ( £3.60 per annum ) . |
| 26 | The obelisk , erected in 1771 in honour of Brass Crosby , Lord Mayor of London , used to stand in St George 's Circus , DC 12 ; PP 43 . |
| 27 | The mill was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) , at a time when growing discontent among textile workers was emerging as a threat to machinery , and the austere — not to say grim — building looks like a fortress , though the original mill has been much altered and extended . |
| 28 | It is their evidence , for example , which shows Æthelred alienating and restoring church estates , while Cnut 's request in 1035 for daily prayers and masses for his soul in his donation ( S 975 ) to the monastic community at Sherborne implies awareness of his approaching death . |
| 29 | Probably to be grouped with the royal priests as a king 's man is Ælfweard , allegedly a relative of Cnut , who became bishop of London in 1035 without relinquishing the abbacy of Evesham , contrary to church law . |
| 30 | Return to Husova Street and to the Church of St Giles ( St Jiljí ) , first built in 1339–71 by John of Dražice and Arnošt of Pardubice , who had it built as a hall church . |