Example sentences of "the [adj] when [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 2 | The madrigal substantially appeared in England only in the 1580s when the English mania for the Italian reached its height — for instance , in the poetry of Spenser and Philip Sidney . |
| 3 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 4 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 5 | On the Labour side , these members were the products of the 1930s when the main issue in politics was insufficiency . |
| 6 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 7 | It happened in Italy in the 1960s when the Communist Party had between 38 and 40 per cent for the entire decade . |
| 8 | Imports continued into the 1950s and the black-and-whites began to spread to other parts of the country , continuing to spread and increase during the 1960s when the national herd as a whole was decreasing . |
| 9 | The Central North Side had strongly organised if partial representation since the 1960s when the Mexican War Streets area began to experience small scale renovation . |
| 10 | Weapons have flooded into the country since the 1860s when the Royal Navy delivered arms to the Druze . |
| 11 | There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms . |
| 12 | They would ‘ uncap ’ business rates , threatening a return to the 1980s when the English rate poundage rose 37 per cent more than inflation . |