Example sentences of "[vb pp] since 1945 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of the United Nations has more than quadrupled since 1945 , greatly complicating international negotiations , while a fundamental conflict of interest between developed and less developed states introduced a North-South dimension to global politics . |
| 2 | In popular terms more responsibility for Britain 's lack of international competitiveness has been laid at the door of trade unions than at that of management ; an attitude strongly encouraged by the high political profile which unions have adopted since 1945 . |
| 3 | For Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord , Bonaparte 's grand chamberlain , is one of several new heroes who have appeared in the Cantos written since 1945 . |
| 4 | In West Germany the socialist students ' organization , the SDS , had grown into the most successful and radical challenge to the status quo that the state had seen since 1945 . |
| 5 | Manual workers ' expectations of family size had fallen , managerial workers ' expectations had risen since 1945 . |
| 6 | Despite this criticism , pluralists can point to the fact that the share of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP has not constantly risen since 1945 — there were definite downturns after Korea and Vietnam . |
| 7 | As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 . |
| 8 | About the third time we went to the beach ( I took them to the one known since 1945 as ‘ Staging Post B ’ ) , as soon as I rejoined the group I realised she 'd told them . |
| 9 | How such formidable influence would be used depended in part on how deeply liberal-democratic values had become entrenched since 1945 . |
| 10 | Our share of world trade has been falling for years under successive governments to the extent that the purchasing power of our currency has roughly halved since 1945 . |
| 11 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
| 12 | All are crucial to check bureaucratic regulation , state surveillance , and invisible government which have increased since 1945 . |
| 13 | Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division . |
| 14 | These trends have continued since 1945 . |
| 15 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 16 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 17 | This was attacked by Labour as dismantling the housing welfare programme as it had existed since 1945 , or perhaps since the Addison Act of 1919 . |
| 18 | After falling and hitting her head in Turner Village , where she had lived since 1945 , she was taken to the accident and emergency department at the general hospital . |
| 19 | For its part , the Labour Government of 1960 did a " U turn " on a number of pledges ( most notably by restoring charges for the health service ) , and although the party entered office in 1974 with a series of clear policy commitments more radical in tone and in aspiration than any that the party had endorsed since 1945 the promise of industrial regeneration and social justice was in the end reneged . |
| 20 | Of these , six are ‘ ancient ’ ( Oxford , Cambridge , St Andrew 's , Glasgow , Aberdeen and Edinburgh ) , and 31 are ‘ new ’ ( established since 1945 — often on the basis of an existing institution of higher education ) . |
| 21 | It is a good illustration of how much Greece has changed since 1945 , and the sort of changes Greece still has to make . |
| 22 | The present study is intended as a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the many ways in which the criminal justice system of England and Wales has changed since 1945 . |
| 23 | Old-style Falangists occupied the ministries associated with social and political control ( Interior , Army , Labour and the Party Secretariat ) , but portfolios connected with the external image of the regime and the assurance of its future ( such as Justice , Foreign Affairs , Education and Public Works ) were assigned to men guided less by rigid ideological concepts than by their awareness that the world had changed since 1945 and that Spain needed to adapt if it was to be counted among the leading nations in the post-war world . |
| 24 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |