Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest periods of peacetime growth in the American bureaucracy were the New Deal in the 1930s and the Great Society programme of the 1960s . |
| 2 | We need to motivate young people , whatever their aptitude or ability , to acquire further qualifications if we are to have a competitive and well-motivated work force in the 1990s and the next century . |
| 3 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 4 | The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence . |
| 5 | However , it has been subjected to a most rigorous French testing and evaluation scheme since its formation in the 1960s and the emphasis is on fast growth rates , lean meat , a high proportion of meat to bone and ease of calving . |
| 6 | It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England . |
| 7 | However the narrative of Henshall 's work appeals to sentiment , the flushed face of the child here denotes ill-health as does her inert pose over the knee of her grandfather , whose exhausted face and poverty-stricken surroundings indicate that there is no help in the short or the long term . |
| 8 | In a speech to " non-party personages " in Beijing on Dec. 2 the CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin said that a document on agriculture approved by the plenum covered the following points : ( i ) the achievements of agriculture and rural work in the 1980s and the main tasks for the 1990s ; ( ii ) stabilizing and improving the party 's basic policies for rural work and continuing to deepen rural reforms ; ( iii ) raising the overall agricultural production capability ; ( iv ) carrying on socialist ideological education and strengthening building of spiritual civilization and the legal system in the rural areas ; and ( v ) reinforcing the party 's leadership on rural work . |
| 9 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |
| 10 | Detente and the new cold war in the 1970s and the 1980s can be viewed as different ways of reacting to the end of the golden age , the faltering of the Fordist formula for capitalist expansion , and the emergence of new policies of capitalist accumulation in West Germany and Japan , based on new post-Fordist technologies . |
| 11 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 12 | And yet , as a partial recovery took place in the 1930s and the Jenkins clan bit the bone that was thrown at them , the small boy 's world became a wonderland of gifts , large and small , of treats , tips , goodies . |
| 13 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 14 | The steady degradation of the Romanian standard of living to meet the burden of rapid debt repayment in the 1980s and the decision to remodel rural life according to a model abandoned by then even in the Soviet Union and China may have been primarily Nicolae Ceauşescu 's work . |
| 15 | Instead , the vendor will normally seek undertakings from the purchaser only to operate the business in the same or a similar manner to the way it was operated before the sale . |
| 16 | If learning is localized in just one site in the cerebellar or the brain stem pathway , then a constant head velocity generates an eye velocity that ramps inexorably toward positive or negative infinity . |
| 17 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 18 | Unlike housing and education , health policies were remarkable for their continuity in the 1980s and the NHS finished the decade battered round the edges but largely intact : still the overwhelming supplier of health care in spite of the growth in the independent sector ; still tax-funded and for the most part free at the point of use ; still growing in real terms even though that did not keep pace with demand in the view of critics . |
| 19 | It was a smashing exhibition , that looked more like the charge in a one-dayer than the eighth of 15 available sessions in a Test . |
| 20 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ There is standing water in the straight and the weather forecast is bad as well . ’ |
| 21 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |
| 22 | The seaside photographer who promises ‘ Memories to treasure ’ with every happy snap might have been present at every major golfing occasion in the Eighties as the players of the age showed their capacity for repeating and exceeding the highwater marks of the very recent past . |
| 23 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 24 | I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ? |
| 25 | It forced a change of direction in the 1950s and the adoption , under Davis , of good housekeeping policies . |
| 26 | How did she know that she could find sanctuary in the familiar and the ordinary ? |
| 27 | The concept of the TCC , on the contrary , is embedded in a theory of the capitalist global system , operating through the transnational practices of the TNCs , as they attempt to achieve a reformation of capitalist hegemony in the Third and the Second Worlds . |
| 28 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 29 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 30 | Ironic as it may seem today , modern redundancy law developed from the belief in the 1960s that a state scheme was needed as an incentive to job mobility at a time of chronic labour shortage . |