Example sentences of "in [art] 1970s [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 3 | The woman-centred perspective had some impact at the beginning of the second wave of western feminism , but it was in the 1970s that it became most powerful , and most in conflict with egalitarian approaches . |
| 4 | Thus although news executives continued to value ‘ scoops ’ , Tunstall found in the 1970s that among journalists themselves , it was more important not to come last with the news than to be first with it ( Tunstall , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | King Ludwig of Bavaria and Idi Amin are two examples ; President Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea became so obsessed with imaginary enemies in the 1970s that he butchered more than 10 per cent of his country 's population , including almost everyone identified as an intellectual . |
| 6 | It was Labour in the 1970s but went Tory in 1979 and Dr Brian Mawhinney , the Northern Ireland Minister , held it with a 9,784 majority in 1987 . |
| 7 | Its use perhaps reached maximum interest in the 1970s but has declined as the move for MCE has developed . |
| 8 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 9 | This was first found in the 1970s but can be entered only by expert cave-divers , able to negotiate underground waters . |
| 10 | The effects of this trend weakened in the 1970s but the numbers of economically active women were by that time swollen by the fall in the numbers of children and by the fall in the numbers of women entering motherhood in their twenties . |
| 11 | On average cars sold in the US consume around 28.1 mpg , according to Environmental Protection Agency statistics , twice as efficient as cars sold in the 1970s but with little change in the past seven years . |
| 12 | Some lost far more manufacturing jobs in the 1970s than others . |
| 13 | Asa Briggs , the historian of British broadcasting , has noted how changes in society — and trends such as professionalization and unionization in the BBC — have made ‘ governing the BBC ’ more difficult in the 1970s than at any other period . |
| 14 | A log rank test analysis showed survival was significantly better in the 1970s than the 1980s ( χ 2 2 1 =8 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 15 | In spite of innovative work with colour coding ( now entirely dismantled ) by Carey at Hatfield Polytechnic Library in the 1970s where he emphasized that an effective library guiding system was an important prerequisite to any library instruction programme , the subject received little serious attention by libraries until the end of the decade . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 18 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 19 | The Church had continued to lose members in the 1970s and 1980s , yet it remained a powerful source of social criticism . |
| 20 | Commentaries written in the 1970s and 1980s on the British experience since 1945 were full of cliché-ridden observations on the decline of an ailing titan , and a fall from imperial and industrial greatness . |
| 21 | Jeff Jukes managed Camel in the 1970s and the Fixx in the 1980s . |
| 22 | They also claim that these discontinuities were aggravated by the more frequent turnover of party control in the government in the 1970s and the influence exercised in both parties by its more partisan groups . |
| 23 | But the party has also lost out because of the salience of race ( which encouraged the white south to defect to the Republicans ) , embourgeoisement of the working class , and the Social Issue ( concern about the rise of the anti-Vietnam war protest movement in the 1970s and the assertiveness and challenges to traditional values by various minority groups ) . |
| 24 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 25 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 26 | When Peru was actively whaling in the 1970s and early 1980s , catching Bryde 's whales mainly for the Japanese market , unsuccessful attempts had been made to introduce whale meat to the Peruvian population . |
| 27 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 28 | The alleged inspiration of the song from Pete Hamill 's story was the subject of a lawsuit in the 1970s and some have suggested that Mr Hamill 's story is fiction , not fact . |
| 29 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 30 | Labour may decide — as it did when Mr Michael Foot stood down in 1983 — to skip a generation and opt for one of the new breed of classless , ‘ voter-friendly ’ politicians who do not carry the baggage of the party 's failures in the 1970s and 1980s . |