Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then abolition was not completed until the early 1890s when the number of landless and dispossessed peasants and rural labourers increased dramatically . |
| 2 | Soviet leaders considered Iran 's renunciation of the CENTO Pact in early 1979 when the Shah was overthrown as a seminal event . |
| 3 | The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed . |
| 4 | The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders . |
| 5 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 . |
| 7 | We could wear the liberal ‘ scientific ’ pair , as did many young trendy academics during the 1960s and early 1970s when the stars of interactionism and phenomenology were in the ascendant . |
| 8 | Advertising was practically never used , even in the early 1970s when the use of search by companies was much less widespread . |
| 9 | This pattern became further exaggerated in the early 1970s when the cores lost population even more rapidly . |
| 10 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 11 | The third stage would begin in early 1992 when the newly elected Assembly would meet to " enact supplements to the Constitution " . |
| 12 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 13 | The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished . |
| 14 | Gates had been under pressure to retire since early 1990 when a group of his officers were filmed beating a black motorist Rodney King . |
| 15 | A more recent reappraisal took place in the early 1980s when the decision was taken to shed the foods side of the business and concentrate on the confectionery and soft drinks divisions . |
| 16 | Following in the footsteps of advertising agencies who gained great riches and new respectability when many became publicly quoted companies , public relations as a business " came of age " in the early 1980s when the first consultancy went public on the Unlisted Securities Market . |
| 17 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 18 | In the early 1980s when the policy of overfunding led to persistent money market shortages , the Bank 's bill mountain was criticised from the standpoint that it entailed the Bank acting essentially as a clearing bank , lending to the corporate sector ( albeit indirectly ) via its bill purchases . |
| 19 | The phenomenon of the management buy-out first emerged in Britain in the early 1980s when the economy was in deep recession . |
| 20 | As Table 3.22 shows , entitlement to unemployment benefit among male workers decreased substantially during the late 1970s when the rate of unemployment was high . |
| 21 | His prestige received a further boost in the late 1920s when the Sunday Express invited ‘ the famous manager of the Arsenal Football Club ’ to contribute a weekly column , a degree of journalistic attention unprecedented for a football manager . |
| 22 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 23 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | One important qualification here is , however , that answers to survey questions are variable over time and the fullest surveys available are now somewhat out of date : one must be alert to the changes since the late 1960s when the surveys of Butler and Stokes ( 1974 ) and Townsend ( 1979 ) were conducted ( these form the basis of the following discussion ) . |
| 25 | Belau 's economy , already adversely affected by debts arising from the Aimeluk power station constructed in the early 1980s and from a delay in US aid consequent upon the compact impasse , suffered a further setback in late 1990 when the territory was severely damaged by Typhoon " Mike " . |
| 26 | Later still , by the mid 1960s when the various organisations within the broad front of the civil rights movements had developed sufficiently to conduct their own educational programs , Highlander changed direction again in the thrust of its educational programs . |