Example sentences of "of [art] [num] " in BNC.
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31 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
32 | They believe the commission is unfriendly towards advertising and the parliament , made up of health-obsessed , anti-materialist children of the 1960s , is even worse . |
33 | For this reason , mistakes in the LBO boom have caused more fuss than mistakes in the merger boom of the 1960s , even though — so far at least — there have been fewer of them . |
34 | It was about unravelling the merger mistakes of the 1960s : splitting up conglomerates , or else buying a firm and selling off divisions that were remote from its main business . |
35 | Their ratio of debts to total assets had fallen below 30% , having ranged between 40% and 50% for most of the 1960s and 1970s . |
36 | The mergers of the 1960s were almost certainly the biggest collective error ever made by American business ( and copied by British firms ) . |
37 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
38 | By law , therefore , bookies ' offices have to be seedy reminders of the 1960s — an outrageous imposition when , for many , the Saturday punt is the week 's intellectual activity . |
39 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
40 | They had experienced the uncertainties of the 1960s and 1970s and they now wanted stability . |
41 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
42 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
43 | The planning policies of the 1960s and 1970s are usually blamed for the faceless shopping centres and office blocks , the loss of historic buildings and long-established activities . |
44 | WITH the release of his most commercial film , a remake of the 1960s thriller ‘ Cape Fear ’ , Martin Scorsese 's is a name that is being buzzed all around the media . |
45 | Let's face it , the hippies of the 1960s are now the politicians , the corporation heads and the journalists . ’ |
46 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
47 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
48 | Her next job was as editor of the teenage pop magazine Fabulous , and then , at the height of the 1960s , she edited the woman 's page of the Sun . |
49 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
50 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
51 | We have also developed a thriving network of polytechnics , whose student numbers have increased nearly sixfold since the end of the 1960s . |
52 | One of the main thrusts in the social ethology of the 1960s was the clarification of the adaptiveness of social organizations . |
53 | One of the most controversial religious works of the 1960s , John Robinson 's Honest to God , is a well-written and clear introduction ( from a Christian perspective ) to the problem of defining what God is , and the difficulty of bringing together theological description , popular imagery and the language of worship . |
54 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
55 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
56 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |
57 | Finally , towards the end of the 1960s , a second wave of successful new writers emerged in the shape of younger figures like Puig and Bryce Echenique . |
58 | A waterfall of begonias , of every colour known to the plant breeders of the 1960s , filled the conservatory . |
59 | This is caused by the ‘ baby boom ’ generation of the 1960s settling down and having families of their own . |
60 | An unusual building of the 1960s , radical alterations which would have destroyed its character |