Example sentences of "[adv] [art] civil [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 2 | So the civil rights movement began to splinter , and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders . |
| 3 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |
| 4 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 5 | In November 1964 Johnson won the Presidential election by a landslide , and promised that the ‘ Great Society ’ would wage war on domestic poverty , on the racism that had triggered both the civil rights movement and the riots in Harlem that summer , and , if necessary , on the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese government as well . |
| 6 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 7 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 8 | There is clearly a civil liberties aspect to what happens to that information . |
| 9 | I knew that the military and particularly the Civil Affairs Service ( CASB ) would be urgently at work , and that Colonel Glass in charge of publicity , who had taken part in our Simla planning , would be preparing the way . |
| 10 | Another document , Ireland Today , published by the Republican Education Department in 1969 when the civil rights movement was already an established fact , gives further evidence on republican strategy : |
| 11 | Only one in 500 engineers in the UK is a woman and progress is much slower than in the US where the percentage has grown from 0–2 in the 1960s , when the Civil Rights movement stirred , to 10 per cent and is growing apace . |