Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] 1970s " in BNC.

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1 The main features that any such model has to explain are a slight warming of the world ( at least , of the northern hemisphere , for which good records are available ) from the late 19th century up to the 1940s. and a subsequent cooling up to the 1970s .
2 Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead .
3 Work carried out during the 1970s and 1980s aimed to use chiral crown ethers as sensors .
4 Much research on children 's explanations of scientific events has been carried out since the 1970s .
5 Four independent photon-correlation experiments carried out in the 1970s showed that Bell 's inequality is indeed violated , and that the results agree with quantum mechanics .
6 Initially it was thought that there was an impairment in memory for visual stimuli but work carried out in the 1970s largely dispelled this notion .
7 The WHO collaborative studies carried out in the 1970s , indeed , support the suggestions made above .
8 Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest .
9 A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later .
10 The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s .
11 It is also women who are the targets of the state 's sex stormtroopers , the Special Claims Control squads set up in the 1970s .
12 Olivetti 's commercial relationship with the Maynard minimaker stretches back to the 1970s , when the Ivrea company used to buy in DEC PDP-11 minis OEM for use as branch controllers for sale with its banking terminals .
13 Unlike most of its competitors , the firm has tended to inspire loyalty on the part of its consultants — who , since Stuart sold out in the 1970s , may enjoy a share in the equity — and has achieved a remarkable stability of gradually improved performance , still at a rate of 35% per year .
14 That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed .
15 LGCM had been set up in the 1970s ; it rented a room in St Botolph 's , Aldgate , a church well-known for work with single homeless people in London .
16 The first , Organic Growers West Wales , was set up in the 1970s to facilitate the supply of produce to meet the growing demand from the supermarkets while supporting its members by guaranteeing markets and providing information on what crops are needed and what prices they will receive for them .
17 Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London .
18 In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base .
19 This follows on from the 1970s and the health conscious 80s when increasing numbers of people were becoming more responsible towards themselves and their lifestyle .
20 A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles .
21 I should have dressed up like a 1970s saloon bar Tory and asked Sigourney about her baby , her husband and her miscarriage .
22 The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system .
23 Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) .
24 In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s .
25 Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration .
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