Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 2 | Subsequently , the victor fell so in love with Russia that in the late 1980s he sought to buy a flat in Moscow . |
| 3 | Martin Scannell of De Pinna , Scorers & John Venn ( 071–409 3188 ) said that in the late 1980s it was fashionable for UK citizens to buy property in France . |
| 4 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 5 | First violin Michael Thomas explains in the liner notes that in the early seventies they would often let their hair down in private , arranging and playing pieces from Joplin to the Beatles and Brubeck purely for fun . |
| 6 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 7 | By the end of the 1960s , the firm had established a reputation in the electronics and motor industries , and in the early 1970s it expanded into oil , petroleum and chemicals , and established a foothold in the merchant banking sector . |
| 8 | University of Zambia , and in the early 1980s she received a scholarship under WACC 's Training Assistance Programme to advance her communication studies in Manila , Philippines . |
| 9 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 10 | And then in addition to that if you were a poor peasant who had to hire land from somebody else , you would of course pay rent and in the nineteen thirties it 's been estimated that the average rent paid by a poor peasant farming somebody else 's land was forty five percent of the harvest . |
| 11 | And in the thirty five i think . |
| 12 | Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing . |
| 13 | But in the early 1970s it was in danger of total destruction . |
| 14 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 15 | By 1990 this ratio had fallen to 39.7% , but in the early 1990s it has risen again , to some 43% in 1992/93 . |
| 16 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 17 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 18 | But in the early eighties it was very different , and , as the same observer comments , Argentina then ‘ was a very hermetic society . |
| 19 | The Land Drainage Act of 1918 had made an attempt to simplify the administration of land drainage , but in the late 1920s it was clear that confusion still prevailed . |
| 20 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 21 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 22 | But in the late 1980s it is the upscale shopping mall — relentlessly post-modern in design , surrounded by a sea of imported cars — which symbolizes our economy . |
| 23 | Saviour Stuart said : ‘ We deserved a draw in the end , but in the first half we struggled and were n't at the races . |
| 24 | Whereas in the first half they virtually tried to play through Thomson on everything . |
| 25 | They also aim to resettle promising farmers , whereas in the early 1980s it was the poorest , not the most successful , who were given newly purchased land . |
| 26 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 27 | Only in the first innings of the third Test in Bombay did England score more than 300 , while in the first two they were forced to follow on . |
| 28 | While in the late 1980s it was comparatively easy to secure a highly geared mortgage , these are far less easily available today . |