Example sentences of "the [num] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
2 | 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 ’ . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
5 | There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms . |