Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 2 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 3 | The social investigations of the inter-war years and the literature of concern about unemployment and other social problems prepared the ground for wartime legislation . |
| 4 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 5 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 6 | In the largest union , that of the St Petersburg metal workers , the Menshevik leadership of the early years was swept from office in 1913 . |
| 7 | They are still arguing about the scientific theories of the early years of this century , like relativity and quantum mechanics . |
| 8 | From the toing and froing of the social exchanges of the early years , exchanges which are imbued with misperception and misattribution , children construct blueprints of their world and their place in it . |
| 9 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 10 | They 'd answer the outside world by giving their own authorised version of the intervening years . |
| 11 | Amongst a large number of writings , Unemployed Struggles , 1919–1936 ( 1936 ) , The Problem of the Distressed Areas ( 1937 ) , Ten Lean Years ( 1940 ) , and his unfinished autobiography , Never on Our Knees ( 1967 ) , are important polemical documents of the inter-war years . |
| 12 | Where the palace , the temple , and the cathedral had inspired their Victorian predecessors , British station-builders of the inter-war years chose more ‘ democratic ’ models — the cinema ( Surbiton ) , the bank ( Exmouth ) , and , with unintended irony , the garage ( West Monkseaton ) . |
| 13 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 14 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 15 | It is the typical paper of the 25 years up to 1914 and was spectacularly revived by Irving Penn in the 1980s in order to reprint his major contributions to the photography of haute couture from 30 years before . |
| 16 | Because he was literate and articulate , he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years . |
| 17 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 18 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |
| 19 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 20 | The in-depth standard history of the early years is Webster , C. ( 1988 ) , The Health Services since the War , Vol. 1 , London : HMSO . |
| 21 | Some sections of the Trades Union Congress still felt that the central problem of the inter-war years was unemployment and that , in a way , a slow down in population would not be a bad thing . |
| 22 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 23 | The New Right attack was aimed at the social democratic consensus of the postwar years , a consensus which , as discussed earlier , was founded on the intellectual ascendancy of Fabian socialism underpinned by values of equality , equity , efficiency and social integration . |
| 24 | From the start of his personal rule Edward showed the qualities of leadership , affability and sympathy with the aspirations of the nobility which were to characterize his reign until its last decade , and which underlay the domestic political harmony of the ensuing years . |
| 25 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 26 | Then , you 'll meet native Ontarians of a thousand years standing . |
| 27 | Let us recap : intellectually and in terms of technical content town planning had not advanced all that much since the remarkable flowering of the early years of the century . |
| 28 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 29 | She wrote verse of a disillusioned and morbid character , echoing her own sense of neglect , for the passionate love of the early years had turned to disenchantment . |
| 30 | With the progressive wing of opinion in the ascendancy , the operations of the criminal justice system — which have appreciably toughened since the 1930s , in spite of postwar wailings about the weakness of the law — also give a jolt to the customary understanding of the pre-war years . |