Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade union education in the 1970s developed in a world of its own , cut off from many of the new developments in community-based adult education and from its own origins in the committed and politically alert work of the WEA and Labour College movement . |
| 2 | Before doing so it is important to underline the fact that the Council 's preoccupations in the 1970s extended beyond the essentially curricular ones considered so far . |
| 3 | The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs took a special interest in these issues and a series of intensively-researched reports in the 1970s led to the creation of a Commission on Transnational Corporations and a research centre . |
| 4 | My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them . |
| 5 | With the exception of the three islands ' authorities in Scotland , the system of local government in Britain following reorganisation in the 1970s consisted of a two-tier system . |
| 6 | The botanist J. D. Hooker postulated a massive extension of land in the Antarctic to account for the similarity of plants between New Zealand , South America and the islands of the remote south . |
| 7 | For this reason EC Directives in the 1960s provided for the repeal of such legislation ( in so far as it affected nationals of member states ) as the requirement of West German law that foreign companies wishing to pursue business activities in West Germany must obtain special authorisation from the West German authorities . |
| 8 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 9 | The ratio T/To in the above compensates for the change in terminal modulus in the rubbery material ( where rubber elasticity theory predicts GT ) while the density ratio arises from thermal expansion . |
| 10 | To begin with Quakerism , Friends taking the initiative against the slave trade in the 1780s drew on the colonial American Quakers Benezet and Woolman . |
| 11 | McLeish knew roughly what it would be like from Francesca 's description of her own Department , but he was still interested in the controlled bustle in the big untidy room . |
| 12 | Kenneth Baker , the party chairman , said yesterday that Cabinet ministers would play a stronger role in government than they had done over the last decade , and there would have to be public spending increases in the 1990s to pay for an improved quality of life . |
| 13 | The lottery of life is an enticing work — not least in showing how one of the most exciting sectors of applied biomedical science in the 1990s rests on the curiosity-oriented work ( much of it conducted in Cambridge , England ) of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 14 | Memphis signed on for the subsequent tour and expanded the exhibition , featuring the Rameses Colossus in the 1987 showing in the Memphis Cook Convention Center . |
| 15 | We shall be deeply involved in the 1992 process in the months and years ahead , and our monthly bulletin European Information Service will give high priority to keeping UK local authorities in touch with developments . |
| 16 | There seemed something all too appropriate about my exchange with this survivor of British radicalism in the thirties turning into a demeaning wrangle over a small amount of money . |
| 17 | This had some claim to be the hotbed of British fascism in the 1920s owing to the fact that Leese and a colleague had successfully stood for the local council on a British fascist policy in 1924 . |
| 18 | Like Muddy , he went acoustic again in the mid-'60s to profit from the white-promoted folk revival , but mainly John Lee has stayed true to his Iron Man vocation . |
| 19 | Calcutta 's industrial development in the 1950s occurred without a corresponding expansion in regular employment . |
| 20 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 21 | The legend owes much to the testimony of his friend Bubb Doddington , who blamed the Prince 's death on ‘ suffocation ’ caused by the breaking of an abscess which had originated in the bruising made by the ball . |
| 22 | According to " diplomatic sources " ( as cited in The Independent of April 4 ) , apart from handing over the Lockerbie subjects , Libya was being asked by Petrovsky to ( i ) provide the UK government with details of its contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ; ( ii ) make a written renunciation of " terrorism " ; ( iii ) close five training camps used by the Palestinian Abu Nidal and other groups ; and ( iv ) extradite an individual who had allegedly been involved in the 1988 attack on the Greek cruise ship City of Poros . |
| 23 | It 's a powerful image of Swindon in the 50s seen through the eyes of a girl called Anne . |
| 24 | One man died in the 1977 protest at the Creys-Malville FBR site in France : the Kalkar fast reactor in West Germany is mothballed ( at a reputed cost of £30 million a year ) largely as a result of green agitation . |
| 25 | One region , with the dog-latin anatomical name Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale ( henceforward , IMHV ) , and another , the Lobus Parolfactorius ( henceforth LPO ) , ‘ lit up ’ in the trained compared with the control animals ( Fig 10.2 ) . |
| 26 | For some years direct taxation ceased to be contentious , and much the bitterest arguments in the 1340s arose over the taxation of wool and the king 's manipulation of the wool trade to raise money for the war . |
| 27 | The median ( range ) serum pepsinogen I concentration was also high in the uraemic compared with the non-uraemic patients and was significantly higher in uraemic patients with H pylori ( 352 ng/ml , range 280–653 ) than in those without H pyulori infection ( 165 ng/ml , range 86–337 ) ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 28 | The new figures , based on measurements from satellites and checked from ground stations , show that the rate of depletion doubled in the 1980s compared to the 1970s . |
| 29 | Attempts by some Labour-led councils in the 1980s to respond to the demands of the lesbian and gay movement and to reduce the impact of that oppression , led to one of those great hypocritical moral panics which are so characteristic of British public life . |
| 30 | TV deregulation in the 1980s led to the growth of satellite and cable , gradually eroding the viewing figures of the major channels . |