Example sentences of "[subord] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 2 | Later I ask if the years of drug abuse — he made the lost classic ‘ On The Beach ’ using honey slides ( lumps of hashish melted in honey ) , he almost did n't appear in The Band 's Last Waltz movie because there was a massive , subsequently disguised , lump of cocaine hanging from his left nostril — are still wearing heavy on him . |
| 3 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |
| 4 | Town planning stood to gain accordingly , even if the years between the wars showed no great practical advance in the design , layout and building of towns over what had been achieved before . |
| 5 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 6 | as if the years were gathered in an hour |
| 7 | Yet there was a crucial need for such action because the years of recovery between 1945 and 1951 had not solved major , underlying problems in the British economy . |
| 8 | True , each sub-period was historically specific : while the years 1978–81 showed equally bad rates of manufacturing job loss in all the major areas of the North of Britain ( Table 5.4 ) , the aftermath in 1981–84 revealed the worst continuing rates in northern England ( the Northern Region , Yorkshire & Humberside and the North West ) . |
| 9 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 10 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 11 | As the years went by , and some of his friends became prolific writers , Dyson came to be jealous of their reputations and to scorn what they wrote . |
| 12 | That is pretty high praise ; and though there are some obvious exceptions , they were fewer as the years went by . |
| 13 | As the years passed , he sacrificed a little speed for greater control , especially of away-swing , but that run-up never for a moment lost its beauty . |
| 14 | As the years had gone by , however , his style had changed . |
| 15 | And as the years passed , Old John he grew poor , |
| 16 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
| 17 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 18 | Public relations is the most vital business of the royal household , the expression of an instinct for self-preservation which has grown steadily more sophisticated as the years have rolled by and the appetite of the media has grown more voracious . |
| 19 | To those who heard and believed that , unvarying in their belief as the years passed , the contra cause was morally obvious . |
| 20 | This was , of course , a faction among Catholics , and one that dangerously found itself outnumbered and outmoded as the years went on . |
| 21 | As the years stumbled by she found that she had nothing much to say to anybody . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems the weather gets fiercer and fiercer as the years pass . |
| 23 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 24 | As the years passed , telephone , telex , facsimile and computer data traffic all came under this original warrant , so that not a single communication enters or leaves Britain without being subject to interception by GCCS 's successor , GCHQ . |
| 25 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |
| 26 | As the years passed The Beatles came under many influences and one of the most famous was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who founded Transcendental Meditation . |
| 27 | It may seem pessimistic , even morbid , to think about a child , parents , a partner or ourselves becoming more and more dependent as the years go by . |
| 28 | As the years have gone by , much doubt has been cast on the approaches even by people closely involved in them . |
| 29 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 30 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |