Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 2 | The financial consequences for Caltech have been very significant : by the early 1960s it was receiving $1¼ million a year for administering JPL . |
| 3 | By the early 1960s it was established that molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) is the dominant constituent . |
| 4 | From the early 1970s it was validating courses structured in macro-modules and micro-modules at colleges and polytechnics . |
| 5 | Office employment was one of the major growth sectors of the economy in the 1950s and 1960s , and by the early 1970s it was estimated that one-quarter of total employment was in offices ( Goddard 1978 ) . |
| 6 | By the early 1970s it was estimated that there were already over five million campers and caravanners and three million anglers . |
| 7 | By the early 1990s it is envisaged that nurses and health visitors wishing to relicense will have to provide evidence of either current employment requiring a nursing qualification or the successful completion of a re-entry programme approved by the National Board of their country of practice . |
| 8 | Since then , however , there has been some decrease in military spending , in the early 1980s it was estimated at 4.5 per cent of global GNP , lower than public expenditure on education though still higher than that on health services ( Sivard , 1982 ) , and in the 1990s , with the ending of the cold war , it may be expected to decline more rapidly . |
| 9 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 10 | Sometimes self-discovered methods were used : for example , after an epidemic of lead poisoning in Sheffield in the early 1890s it was noted that those who were poisoned had aborted . |
| 11 | By the late 1970s it was operating out of two headquarters buildings in the City , warehouses in north London and Milton Keynes and a packaging factory in Hertford . |
| 12 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |
| 13 | In the late 1960s it was found that the drug amphetamine could induce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia in otherwise normal subjects . |
| 14 | In the late 1980s it was felt that low profitability , partly arising from discounting of bonds by syndicate members in the grey market , necessitated a reform of primary market procedures . |
| 15 | On August the 12th 1991 it was feared that Brian Waites might not live , let alone play golf ever again . |
| 16 | By the mid 70's it was decided to build a new loading plant in Leith and for Methil to be run down . |