Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The station in Kowloon was demolished in the 1970s and replaced by a soulless concrete and glass structure on reclaimed land at Hung Hom , opened in 1973 . |
| 2 | My Arabic was rusty but I had studied the language in the 1970s and knew the Gulf reasonably well . |
| 3 | Lewis started the Menumaster operation in Britain in the 1970s and managed the business for over 10 years . |
| 4 | As was mentioned in Chapter 3 , the American decision to sell grain once more to the Soviet Union in 1977 wiped out the Soil Bank established in the 1970s and caused ploughing up of marginal land and a marked increase in erosion rates ( Cook 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 6 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 7 | On July 3 Ibrahim Böhme , who briefly led the East German Social Democrats ( SPD ) in early 1990 [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] , was excluded from the party in the face of " overwhelming evidence " that he had joined the Stasi in the 1970s and informed on the re-formed SPD from 1989 . |
| 8 | The Wars of Independence which began in the 1290s and lasted into the late fourteenth century changed that situation radically . |
| 9 | The packing density referred to here is measured in terms of the total number of records , both in the prime and overflow areas , divided by the prime data storage capacity only . |
| 10 | For example while Denmark had saved 30% and France 25% of energy in the industrial and housing sectors the UK had managed only 17% . |
| 11 | Properly speaking , therefore , the new narrative pre-dates the so-called ‘ boom ’ , a term which is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym but which in fact refers to a process which took place in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s , when Spanish-American fiction won increasing recognition outside Latin America itself and achieved unprecedented commercial success . |
| 12 | The original stained glass window was destroyed by vandals in the 1960s and replaced by a plain glass one . |
| 13 | He came to University in the 1960s and chose Bristol because ‘ it was the first of the Drama Departments . |
| 14 | He served as county captain in the 1960s and led Mickleover , for whom the was this year 's president , in 1954 and 1956 . |
| 15 | It was ultimately the inability of the access streets to cope with a hugely increased traffic problem which choked the markets to death in the 1960s and led to their demolition . |
| 16 | All the novelists who are to be discussed in this chapter began their writing careers in the 1960s and recoiled from the hegemony of naturalistic modes of fiction . |
| 17 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 18 | According to the New Delhi paper 's authors , the peak yields in both wheat and rice were obtained during experimental trials in the 1960s and have not been repeated since . |
| 19 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 20 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Dartford — who , as ever , was frank — did not speak any honeyed words about the inspectorate but said that it had been captured by the left in the 1960s and remained captured , and that it was a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 22 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 23 | Ruth flopped back in the lounger and studied the vapour trail through half-closed eyes . |
| 24 | A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development . |
| 25 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 26 | There are numerous picturesque villages , ruined abbeys , and historic houses within easy driving distance , including Sledmere House which was built in the 1750s and rebuilt after a devastating fire , using the original plans , in 1911 . |
| 27 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |
| 28 | The slow pace of liberalization measures , however , particularly in the agricultural and finance sectors , continued to be a source of irritation to the USA . |
| 29 | ‘ This is cost-effective for authorities in the long-term and stops children in care drifting into lock-up establishments ’ . |
| 30 | Novices come in the early and elate season when winds are lighter . |