Example sentences of "[art] [num] [ex0] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the mid-1980's there has been little or no growth . |
| 2 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 3 | Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography . |
| 4 | One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism . |
| 5 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 6 | It became a favourite book of the Evangelicals , whose influence was rising in the Church of England ; by the 1840s there seemed hardly a Christian nursery in England and Scotland , including that of the Queen , without a copy . |
| 7 | By the 1840s there seemed to be clear evidence for a sequence of development in the history of life on earth . |
| 8 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 9 | Since the 1940s there has been a global transition in health , with a rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases . |
| 10 | These organisations are responsible for a wide variety of building and maintenance work , and by the end of the 1970s there had developed widespread concern at the inefficiency and lack of accountability displayed in some areas . |
| 11 | Since the 1970s there has been a move towards financial devolution in many countries worldwide . |
| 12 | Since the 1970s there has been a movement to bring art into hospitals , to sugar the pill , to the advantage of both patients and artists . |
| 13 | During the 1920s there had been a " Left " opposition to MacDonald centred around Lansburys Weekly , an unofficial Labour paper , and later around the Independent Labour Party from which MacDonald eventually resigned . |
| 14 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 15 | In the USA in the 1990s there appears to be a wide recognition of the need to maintain the political system and these concerns are superseding previous motivations for partnerships . |
| 16 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 17 | But whereas in the early 1920s , cheapie production had constituted almost the entirety of British filmmaking , in the 1930s there existed a more ambitious production sector running in parallel . |
| 18 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 19 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 20 | Soon after the discovery of the ‘ battered baby syndrome ’ in the 1960s there seemed considerable optimism amongst health and welfare professionals that such efforts would be effective . |
| 21 | Since the 1960s there has been a marked convergence of regional economic structures in terms of their mix of manufacturing industries and , as was seen in section 2.3 , in the balance between manufacturing and services . |
| 22 | Since the 1960s there have been growing suspicions that Alzheimer 's disease ( a form of senile dementia ) is associated with high levels of aluminium . |
| 23 | Since the 1960s there have been big increases in the amounts of CFCs produced and consumed . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 25 | As early as the 1860s there had begun a phenomenon that has since become endemic in advanced industrial societies : in a word , recession . |
| 26 | Indeed , during the 1950s there had been fears that there might be a liquidity shortage unless the USA took steps to increase the supply of dollars . |
| 27 | Since the urban middle-class exodus to the countryside began in earnest in the 1950s there have typically been two issues over which such conflict has been generated : housing and the environment . |
| 28 | Since the 1950s there have been three major phases of electronic data creation . |
| 29 | Since the 1950s there has been a fifth column of British writers who demonstrate and often acknowledge their admiration for French writing , Alain Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman in particular . |
| 30 | Since the 1950s there has been a marked sharpening of interest in amenity , caused partly by the rapid rate of development , and an awareness of the inadequacy of the planning system automatically to preserve and enhance amenity . |