Example sentences of "in [adj] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Arnold echoed the belief in 1869 that the social system was groaning under the weight of ‘ those vast , miserable , unmanageable masses of sunken people — one pauper at the present moment , for every nineteen of us ’ . |
| 2 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 3 | The Charter of the Forest had tried to stop this abuse by enacting in 1217 that the number of foresters necessary to keep the forests should be determined ‘ by the view and oath of the twelve regarders when they make the regard ’ — that is , every three years . |
| 4 | While courses in business ethics are now among the most popular on business-school curriculums , many academics admit in private that the influence of their teaching is minimal . |
| 5 | The choice of La Section d'Or as a title for the exhibition of the group of painters who appeared at the Galerie de la Boétie seems to indicate some dissatisfaction with the term Cubism as applied to their work , and was probably intended to imply translation by Peladan in 1910. that the paintings shown had a more profound and rational basis . |
| 6 | It was only in 1948 that the family returned . |
| 7 | The " Islay Parliament " agreed in 1755 that the local people should do two days work repairing the road from Kintra to Kenobus Mill . |
| 8 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 9 | Since 1985 the German Drinking Water Ordinance has specified ‘ protection zones ’ of 100–500 metres around bore-holes , and the UK Nitrate Coordination Group noted in 1986 that the Germans were giving ‘ consideration … to stricter catchment area regulations laying down maximum nitrate fertiliser application rates , banning its use at certain times of the year and requiring changes in the land use ’ . |
| 10 | The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) had estimated in 1986 that the 6,034 landfills then open would decline to about 2,000 by 1992 . |
| 11 | On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " . |
| 12 | Relative peace ensued in Champagne in the years which followed , although it was not until the coronation of Louis XI in 1461 that the French nobility were able to express their new solidarity . |
| 13 | Montague Burrows , Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford , wrote from an Anglocentric point of view in 1886 that the English imperial administration of India bore certain similarities to that of medieval Aquitaine : |
| 14 | There is a tradition , traceable only to some anecdotes published by the Rev. W. Coxe in 1799 that the Handel harpsichord was given , with some manuscripts and the Roubiliac bust , to that notable Handel enthusiast George III . |
| 15 | This is the first time since its formation in 1935 that the association has organised a trespass as part of its campaign . |
| 16 | It was however accepted by the Court of Appeal in 1980 that an injunction could properly be granted even if the defendant was based in England if in the circumstances there was a danger of the assets being removed , and this was put beyond doubt by section 37(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides : |
| 17 | They still hoped in 1980 that the Palestinian issue — the demands of Palestinians who lost their homes in what is now Israel — could be dealt with as part of a general Arab–Israeli peace settlement , that the whole two and a half million Palestinian diaspora could be given a lump-sum , once-and-for-all payment of compensation . |
| 18 | It remained for an establishment scientist , Thomas Young [ q.v. ] , to suggest in 1802 that the physical variable underlying colour is a continuous one , whereas Palmer 's idea of three discrete receptors is correct at the retinal level . |
| 19 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 20 | After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind . |
| 21 | Since the early military experiments , the new civilian operators of nuclear power ( the electricity generating boards ) have argued in public that the two branches have become clearly separated . |
| 22 | Reports on progress were not encouraging Sam had to admit in public that the swimming difficulties were also somewhat fearsome : professional coaching in that sphere would also be costly and unprofessional coaching ‘ posed certain difficulties ’ . |
| 23 | Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould , two invertebrate palaeontologists , suggested in 1972 that the abrupt transitions in the fossil record reflect the way evolution actually works , by fits and starts , or in their latinate phrase , ‘ punctuated equilibria ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was not until there was a recommendation in the report on the public inquiry into the Trident accident at Staines in 1972 that the CAA made the fitment of CVRs compulsory in UK registered aircraft . |
| 25 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 26 | Ministers told those people in 1987-88 that the Government had got it right , but now , four years later , they say , ’ Sorry , we got it wrong . |
| 27 | It is evident from a Health Advisory Service ( HAS ) visit in 1985 that a fundamental flaw had been discovered in the planning of the Powick strategy . |
| 28 | Collusion , which used to be a bar to divorce , is no longer prohibited , and indeed a Committee chaired by Mrs Justice Booth recommended in 1985 that the parties should in future be entitled to file joint petitions for divorce . |
| 29 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 30 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |