Example sentences of "had emerged [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 2 | Educational Services Incorporated had emerged in the 1950's as a leading agent for curricular reform in the United States , and its development owed much to the concern and dynamism of some of the country 's foremost scientists and mathematicians . |
| 3 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 4 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 5 | Lowe 's interests extended to a wide range of issues — sexual politics , the environment , nuclear disarmament , anti-racism — all of which had emerged from the 1960s hippy and student-based protest movements . |