Example sentences of "[art] [num] [coord] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The original north transept of Pershore Abbey collapsed in the 1680s and was never rebuilt .
2 Chris believes the Bay Horse was first a pub in the 1560s and was also a coaching inn .
3 The collection owes its origin to a major bequest of drawings and sculptures by the neo-classical artist John Flaxman in the 1840s and was further enriched by a bequest of German graphic works by George Grote in 1872 .
4 However , although ‘ multiculturalism , as an educational movement dates from the 1970s and is primarily a response to the post-Second World War migration of black communities to Britain , it is important to recognize that multiculturalism is a perennial social issue , for all but the simplest of societies are characterized by cultural diversity .
5 ‘ The guy was a bit of a throwback from the '60s and was more interested in teaching me Wishbone Ash tunes , ’ Friedman recalls , ‘ which was not exactly my thing . ’
6 Jennings and Robson obtained teaching appointments at the LSE in the 1920s and were greatly influenced by Laski .
7 The ‘ Dutch Cap ’ was not introduced by the German physician Mensinga until the 1880s and was only ever used by a minority of women , despite its promotion by clinics .
8 There was also a water mill in Lowthorpe as early as 1327 but the latest building on the site was said to have been built in the 1700s and was finally demolished in 1959 .
9 In the ‘ spatial division of labour ’ , the labour-intensive mass-production branch has a weaker role than in the 1960s and is partly replaced by TNC investment in the Third World .
10 Family counselling , or family therapy , began in the USA in the 1950s , underwent enormous expansion during the 1960s and is now a well developed technique with a sizeable literature devoted to it .
11 Growth in the interventionism of British judges has been noted since the 1960s and is now encapsulated in specific procedures for judicial review .
12 But despite national policies that promote rail , the railway system has lost market share heavily since the 1960s and is currently running a deficit of some DM 14bn after heavy subsidies .
13 The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats .
14 The little corn mill was last worked during the 1950s but is still essentially complete .
15 Holdings of around one third were common in the 1970s , but the proportion fell during the boom in equities in the 1980s and is now down to 9% .
16 Manila had no property boom in the 1980s and is now about the only significant capital in South-East Asia that is not overbuilt .
17 For example , the US firm , RCA , one of the pioneers of TV technology and the first to produce a commercial monochrome TV set in 1946 , could not keep up with later developments , was bought by GE during the 1980s and is now owned by the French firm , Thomson .
18 Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to look at the study in The Financial Times on 6 January which pointed to the fact that the northern region has very much benefited from the economic restructuring of the 1980s and is now coming out of recession faster than any other part of the country , due to the success of the regeneration programmes that the Government have put in place in the region ?
19 Labour supply patterns have , however , become more complicated in the 1980s and are inevitably emerging as a key issue of the 1990s .
20 The national Labour defeat , of course , denies Mr Mandelson the government post widely predicted for him as a consequence of his guru status within his party ; the Hartlepool runner-up , radio and PR man Mr Graham Robb , put up the Conservative vote by a thousand but was still 8,782 adrift .
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