Example sentences of "[art] [num] was that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another advantage in the 1830s was that there was no room among the apes for man . |
| 2 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |
| 3 | To cut a long story short , the discovery of the sixties was that you can measure a range of attitudes to each of a group of competing brands , and get a clear , coherent pattern of differences between them : what is more , you can repeat the process at intervals , and monitor changes in these attitudes . |
| 4 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 5 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 6 | Apart from the hurt feelings of departing managers , the most common reason for worrying about America 's spate of takeovers in the 1980s was that it pushed firms heavily into debt . |
| 7 | One of the problems that the Conservative government faced in the 1980s was that it depended on over 400 local authorities in England alone to implement large parts of its policies , for example housing , education and social services . |
| 8 | One of the most commonplace simplicities in the 1980s was that there were two alternative forms of industrial relations available to employers in Britain : one was based on employee involvement , flexible forms of work organisation , single-union deals or no union representation and the other persisted with multi-union representation , traditional forms of work organisation , strict workplace discipline and offered employees little opportunity for direct participation in their work or in the affairs of the enterprise . |