Example sentences of "reach its [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 2 | The strengthened assertion ( " wo n't " vs. " would n't want to " ) and the build-up to a climax are already there in B's turn even without the code switch from London English to Creole : " fresh air " is mentioned three times , each time with greater prominence than before , and the overall impression is of a crescendo which reaches its climax with the final " fresh air " . |
| 3 | The cult of precision reaches its apotheosis in the presidential code name : Zero One . |
| 4 | The main disadvantage to direct use lies in the fact that supply reaches its maximum at the same time as demand is at its minimum . |
| 5 | Melanin pigmentation reaches its maximum about the 20th day of sun exposure . |
| 6 | His career should have reached its climax in the great Franco-Scottish chateaux of Fonthill ( 1849 ) for the Duke of Westminster and Buchanan ( 1851–53 ) for the Duke of Montrose , but the first was built only in a much reduced and quite different form while Buchanan suffered from the late substitution of plate glass for the mullioned windows which were an indispensable element of his style . |
| 7 | They had a turbulent career , reaching its peak in the early 70's , but this for followed by almost 2 decades in the wilderness . |
| 8 | Between these two stable points the composition tilts and weaves through the various clustered groups and knots of interest , reaching its climax in the prostrate figure of Nelson . |
| 9 | Positivism , and the rehabilitative ideal associated with it , gradually came to dominate criminological thinking and rhetoric , reaching its zenith in the 1950s and 1960s , especially in the United States . |
| 10 | A 1989 MORI Poll conducted by the BBC and The Independent newspaper argued that the ideology of Thatcherism was reaching its target of the young . |
| 11 | The fame of Lionel Trilling in New York , of F. R. Leavis in Cambridge , peaked in the years after 1945 , in their middle age , and their consciousness of fame and influence reached its climax in the early 1950s with the appearance of two essay-collections , Trilling 's The Liberal Imagination ( 1950 ) and Leavis 's The Common Pursuit ( 1952 ) . |
| 12 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 13 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 14 | However , such campaigns provide a measure of participation and control of party and state bureaucrats , a movement which reached its peak during the Cultural Revolution . |
| 15 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 16 | The matter reached its peak at the round table over lunch . |
| 17 | The Seljuks ' cultural and political dominance was soon overtaken by that of the Ottomans , a more powerful invading force from Central Asia , whose empire reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries and whose influence is still in evidence today . |
| 18 | What the Henry Pratt books ( there is a second in print , Pratt Of The Argus , and a third imminent ) have in common with the rest of Nobbs ' work is his love of running gags and bizarre symmetry , an interest which made Perrin so relentlessly funny and reached its peak in the near-geometric farces of the two Bit Of A Do series . |
| 19 | Local authority building reached its peak in the 1970s . |
| 20 | Almost as this detailed organisation reached its peak in the fourteenth century it was , as we shall see , to break irreversibly . |
| 21 | The aristocracy had long chosen to immure its dead in church vaults or specially constructed mausoleums , and this practice reached its peak in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore , built by Victoria after the death of Albert . |
| 22 | The representative middle-class institution was the family , which reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The human capital concept is not new , even though it reached its apotheosis in the 1960s . |
| 24 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 25 | A. " Old gang support of mob rule against fascism reached its height over the huge Olympia meeting held by Mosley in 1934 . |
| 26 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |
| 27 | Slowly there emerged the rural three-class system which reached its apogee in the eighteenth century : aristocratic landowners could live in civilised leisure from the rents of tenant farmers who in turn employed landless wage-workers . |
| 28 | GDP actually reached its trough in the second quarter of 1992 , since when it has grown by 0.2% each quarter . |
| 29 | This tendency reached its nadir in The Shining , but Full Metal Jacket represents a partial recovery , particularly in the brilliantly stylized choreography of the opening section in the training camp . |