Example sentences of "late [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in late 1986 a challenge emerged to the predominant pattern of unionization in the shape of a new grade-based union , the Sindicato Español de Maquinistas y Ayudantes Ferroviarios ( SEMAF — Spanish Union of Train Drivers and Drivers ' Assistants ) . |
| 2 | In the medium term the Kent Impact Study estimated that , on the basis of firms ' plans in late 1986 the Channel Tunnel would produce losses of 4,500 and 6,500 jobs in the ferry industry to be offset by gains of 3,200 jobs directly related to the operation of the Tunnel at Cheriton and Ashford , and 13,000 to 14,000 new jobs in other industries of which 3,700 were attributed to firms moving into Kent from other parts of the country . |
| 3 | Indeed , scores of battalions had already been formed from ethnic minorities on an ad hoc basis by German formations in the field , and by late 1943 the total would exceed 400,000 men . |
| 4 | By the late 1830s the existence of this unseen planet had become undeniable because of discrepancies approaching one arcminute between the observed and computed orbits of Uranus , attributable to gravitational perturbations . |
| 5 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 6 | During the Late Carboniferous the proliferation of plant growth on land not only provided coal seams but contributed abundant particulate and dissolved organic matter to the pro-delta and deeper marine areas . |
| 7 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 8 | In late 1892 the union was defeated in Bristol . |
| 9 | But by the late 1800s the trust emerged again , not just in the field of real property . |
| 10 | In late 1991 the investigation was reinvigorated by the discovery of notes made by former Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger , which led to his indictment [ see p. 38955 ] . |
| 11 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
| 12 | In the late 1870s the government was almost embarrassed by the enthusiasm for a crusade against Turkey expressed by Panslavist publicists . |
| 13 | In late Westphalian the climate became more arid and the coal development disappeared . |
| 14 | By the late seventies a succession of writers , of whom Correlli Barnett and Martin Wiener were the best-known , had given this idea intellectual respectability . |
| 15 | From late 1992 the procedure has changed . |
| 16 | In late 1981 the plan was revised again . |
| 17 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 18 | Contrary to declarations that there was no government policy for sterling and that it would be left to the markets to decide , by late 1981 the government intervened to reverse a fall in the exchange rate , and raised base rate to 16 per cent . |
| 19 | In the late 1970s a contract was signed with Canada for the creation of three nuclear power stations . |
| 20 | One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane . |
| 21 | For twenty years from 1961 Ahidjo had relative success in maintaining stability in Cameroun , and by the late 1970s the country was experiencing high rates of growth . |
| 22 | In the late 1970s the government introduced a scheme to improve the quality and profitability of the rug-making industry , which involved the reintroduction of natural dyes and traditional weaving methods . |
| 23 | As far as CNAA post-graduate studies are concerned , in the late 1970s the Council undertook a searching review , under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , of its then eighteen courses . |
| 24 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 25 | By the late 1970s the impetus towards central control was well established . |
| 26 | From the late 1970s the debate around the imaging of women 's bodies was furthered , particularly in the UK and New York , by the work of those artists and theoreticians who wished to remove the body of woman from view while instead concentrating upon notions of femininity , replacing the bodies of a women as sites which produced struggle , with womanliness as a named site of struggle . |
| 27 | In the late 1970s the policy of building by prisoners was abandoned and the work put out to contract , as in most other jurisdictions . |
| 28 | By the late 1970s the quality improvement process began to gain credence in the USA and is now being applied by some businesses in Europe . |
| 29 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 30 | By the late 1970s the Countryside Commission had designated 33 AONBs in England and Wales , occupying more than 9 per cent of the total land surface . |