Example sentences of "[art] [num] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrasts in the life of colonial New England are shown in the Puritan Keeping Room of the 1680s and the cosy tavern kitchen of the 1770s with its beehive oven and well protected bar , in the blue-green panelled living room from Lee , New Hampshire , and the mid-eighteenth-century parlor of Captain Perley , who led his Minute Men at the battle of Bunker Hill . |
| 2 | During the Thirties when the streamlined fleet was introduced , the driver was for the first time provided with his own driving cab , complete with folding seat . |
| 3 | Labour began in the 1890s because the Liberal Party failed to respond to social change . |
| 4 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 5 | In 1988 the old effective exchange rate had absolute values in the 70s but the new index is in the 90s . |
| 6 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |
| 7 | There was a widespread feeling as early as the 1840s that the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality . |
| 8 | William Titford had paid five guineas during the 1870s for the exclusive right of burial in his chosen plot . |
| 9 | I was reading this article in a Playboy Magazine round at my boyfriend 's place , or was it Penthouse , anyway , I seem to be spending quite a lot o' time round at my boyfriend 's reading magazines and here it says how these several top U.S. psychiatrists had done this survey on how your emotions can sabotage your sexlife even if you are a man and here it blamed the sexually aggressive female of the seventies for the sexual recession of the eighties . |
| 10 | Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds . |
| 11 | So far , we have looked at some of the features of four periods of structural change in the UK economy and some of the main developments in the international connections of the UK economy from the 1940s until the recent period of structural change . |
| 12 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . |
| 14 | The US Supreme Court ruled in the 1970s that a black journalist had to reveal his source of information about the Black Panthers to a criminal grand jury . |
| 15 | The difficulty of resolving this issue contributed to the failure of proposals in the 1970s for a Scottish assembly when Labour was last in power . |
| 16 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |
| 17 | After the inflation and eventual recession of the 1970s and the greedy pursuit of money in the 1980s , people ( especially the young ) rediscovered some of the faith in the future and the enthusiasm for change which had characterized the 1960s . |
| 18 | The country 's economic troubles are rooted in a string of global crises : specifically the oil crisis of the 1970s and the steep drop in copper prices , a commodity upon which Zambia depends for over 80 per cent of its foreign earnings . |
| 19 | The end product of psychedelia was not a new way of looking at the world and a liberation of the mind , but rather a lot of shit concept albums in the 1970s and an inaccurate belief on the part of pop stars that they were somehow important . |
| 20 | Hyundai claims 0–60mph in 10secs for the Cdi and a top speed of nearly 118mph — improvements of 1.1secs and 6mph over the 1.6-litre Lantra . |
| 21 | There 's a conscious rejection of the sonic values of the '80s but a bright-eyed optimism about the 1990s . |
| 22 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 23 | It goes back to the fifties when the local authority , in this case the Worthing Rural District Council would not approve the plan for a small development A Twenty Seven in near the roundabout at Manor . |
| 24 | Almost all the great noble families served Edward III abroad , and the freedom of action they enjoyed allowed them to win glory and renown for themselves , as Lancaster succeeded in doing in Aquitaine between 1343 and 1345 , Northampton in Brittany in the 1340s and the Black Prince in Languedoc in 1355 . |
| 25 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 26 | Calder has called this an ‘ irreversible break ’ with the past , and the preparations from the mid-'30s for a future war showed the extent to which the lessons learned in the Great War were applied even before hostilities broke out . |
| 27 | Cincinnati Union perfectly represented the exaggerated hope of the 1920s and the devastating failure of the 1930s . |
| 28 | There were commercial laundries in the 1920s and the large linen hampers that took two people to carry them to the laundry van show that this was a luxury enjoyed by the inhabitants of the Dolls ' House . |
| 29 | Some historians have seen signs in the 1530s that the legislative authority of Parliament might have been undermined by the King 's power to issue proclamations . |
| 30 | He liked to divide his spare time between the Sargents ' house and the boat , equally indifferent to the ordered comfort of the one and the shabby squalor of the other . |