Example sentences of "in the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives have reversed the trends established in the 1970s of a narrowing of both income and wealth distribution . |
| 2 | The success in the 1970s of a few Asian ‘ Newly Industrialising Countries ’ ( NICs ) at making rapid growth in manufactured exports the key to rapid output growth , drew attention to the potential contribution of a ‘ good ’ external strategy . |
| 3 | Further studies were delaying by two years measures to save Lake Ichkeul in Tunisia , which was in danger of being reduced to a salty lagoon after the damming in the 1970s of the six rivers feeding it . |
| 4 | In her catalogue essay , Rosemary Betterton draws attention to the development in the 1970s of a feminist politics of representation which justifiably set out to expose and dismantle the patriarchal jurisdiction over creative and institutional practices . |
| 5 | The increasing diversity of studies in this area was reflected by the creation in the 1970s of new CNAA boards to cover such fields as Combined Studies ( Science ) , Computing and Informatics , Environmental Studies , Health and Medical Services , and Transport . |
| 6 | The development in the 1970s of unit plans was one of the most dramatic and far-reaching revolutions in the life and pensions industry . |
| 7 | Artefacts were manufactured in the finest of the United Kingdom workshops and factories of the era , and the Twining Model Co. was chosen to assist the manufacturers where necessary . |
| 8 | I fared no better with the Gordons in Aberdeen : " but no Gordon would he found deed/dead in the Tartan of the Black Watch . " |
| 9 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |
| 10 | We had both been participants in the Prime of Miss Sylvia Benton , the distinguished archaeologist who was in Athens in the early sixties . |
| 11 | This large number would still provide just one per volost' in the largest of all countries . |
| 12 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 13 | It contained the smiling faces of the respective captains , Ireland 's Phil Danaher and New Zealand 's Sean Fitzpatrick , with the question ‘ Whose Irish eyes will be smiling after today 's test ? ’ posed in the largest of poster type . |
| 14 | This will undoubtedly stretch existing laboratory resources , despite an expansion in the largest of the biology teaching laboratories due for completion before the beginning of session 1992–93 . |
| 15 | A string quintet played in the largest of the reception rooms , and guests spilled out into the garden in between light showers . |
| 16 | And earlier , in the noblest of all defences of the freedom of the press , Milton had protested : |
| 17 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 18 | Pentium is five times as fast as the Intel 486 chip found in the swiftest of today 's desktop PCs . |
| 19 | The recognition in the 1820s of the new Latin-American republics as independent states is said to have increased the workload of the British foreign office by a half , while in the later decades of the nineteenth century commercial and economic diplomacy and the need to influence the new force of mass public opinion were making new and unprecedented demands . |
| 20 | Estimates for the period 1977 to 1980 were provided by Canadian and Norwegian scientists In this case the Norwegian scientist 's estimate was in the mid-range of the others . |
| 21 | But most of last month 's suggested fish will be happy in the mid-range of most people 's normal tap water . |
| 22 | The greatest exponent in the 1960s of a European policy independent of Washington was Charles de Gaulle who never accepted that France should be subsidiary to US ideological leadership . |
| 23 | Stanley Foster of Hodder & Stoughton Educational and of its precursor the University of London Press , and chairman in the 1960s of the Publishers Association 's educational publishers ' group , precursor of the Educational Publishers Council , died last Friday at his home near Bexhill-on-Sea . |
| 24 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 25 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 26 | The same increasing central control and rationalization can be seen also in the introduction in 1720 of a regular tariff for the purchase of commissions ; in the 1750s of the custom of numbering regiments rather than referring to them by their colonel 's name ; and in 1792 of a common system of drill , based on that of Prussia , for the whole army . |
| 27 | ‘ The Firm ’ reflects people 's awareness in the 90s of the possibility of waking up to realise you 're not who you wanted to be , ’ said director Pollack . |
| 28 | The biggest single leap in information technology , however , was the development in the 1960's of the first ‘ integrated circuits ’ ( IC 's ) in the United States . |
| 29 | He lived in beautiful houses , travelled the world in the greatest of comfort , and wanted for nothing . |
| 30 | In the greatest of the Enlightenment philosophers ( notably Immanuel Kant , 1724–1804 ) the individual is seen as possessing ultimate worth and dignity . |