Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 2 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 3 | In the 1670s it became clear that this was not the case and that the English really did intend to have a network of trade among all English possessions to give the colonies a safe if restricted market in England and to allow England — and London in particular — the whole re-export trade from the entire empire . |
| 4 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 5 | In the eighties it became clear that the social and ethical consequences of this state of affairs could be catastrophic . |
| 6 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 7 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 8 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |