Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Chairman Roland Williams announced a competition for the best 40 's style stand to help broaden the interest of the event for a family day out and to attract people from outside the farming community . |
2 | This was during the mid 1980 's and the group was of moderate size and the productions were of a moderate standard also . |
3 | It is easier to set the time of ‘ The Outsiders ’ as the early 60 's or late 50's , even though the date is n't made obvious . |
4 | The event will consist of lectures , exhibitions , displays and a host of other events honouring William Dargan , one of Ireland 's greatest railway engineers of the last century who did much to improve Bray as a town between the late 1850 's and early 1960's . |
5 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
6 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |
7 | It is possible to predict therefore , given the funding pressures of the late 1980 's and early 1990's , that the numbers of successful graduates in the field will start to level off under the influence of market forces , until the next major theoretical advance , or the next rise in the value of those resources which geologists can be of assistance in exploiting . |
8 | ‘ You talk of the eight twelves ' energy bolts as if they were alive , ’ remarked Jinkwa . |
9 | It is doubtful whether even one of the eight twelves ' living bullets could have cut through the atmosphere created by the Doctor 's words . |
10 | The Socialist parties suffered from the consequences of the Second International 's theory of revolution in stages ( which led the Argentine Socialist Party to support US interventions in the Caribbean ) and its under-estimation of the power of nationalism . |
11 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
12 | Boyd 's ability to take a controversial subject and set it down into explicable proportions is tested to the full in this work and the way in which the line fell into the Great Central 's hands together with the relationship of Benjamin Piercy 's trustees provides the kind of issues that keeps historians in correspondence for years to come . |
13 | The small , dimly lit plastic tent was crammed with survivors from the eight twelves ' second attack : soldiers who had been pulled from the wreckage of their half blasted tanks with feet missing or shells split . |
14 | Henley began registering research students in the early 1970 's and at any one time has over sixty people working towards an MPhil or PhD with the College . |
15 | When I took my first weekend break in Paris in the early 70 's I booked with Cresta Holidays who were then the leading Manchester/Paris weekend break specialists . |
16 | Class 123/4 DMU 's were operating the majority of Hope Valley services in the early 1980 's and prior to closure of Woodhead , diversions were commonplace on Sundays . |
17 | An orange strain was introduced in the early 1980 's and is quite readily available . |
18 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
19 | The card operated hotel locking system was introduced in the late 1970s ' with the focus on replacing the traditional metal key for guest room doors with a more easily recodable system . |
20 | Landscaped in the late 70 's and early 80's , it was previously an area of railway sidings and industrial buildings — remnants of Bo'ness ' days as an important port . |
21 | Investment accounts have offered competitive rates in the late 1980 's and now account for over 22 per cent of the total assets portfolio . |
22 | Such tablets first became available in the late 1950 's and precipitated considerable activity in on-line handwriting recognition . |
23 | Talk of a bypass through Hailing because of the volume of traffic recalls memories of when I was a boy in the late 20 's and early 30's . |
24 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
25 | In the late 1960 's and early 1970's , policy makers became increasingly concerned that the South East may be becoming more and more socially ‘ polarized ’ , as the more highly skilled and highly paid moved out of inner London to better jobs and better housing around London . |
26 | Simultaneously , the discovery of the North Sea 's oil and gas fields in the late 1960 's and early 1970's increased the UK demand for trained geologists and geophysicists . |
27 | Simultaneously , the discovery of the North Sea 's oil and gas fields in the late 1960 's and early 1970's increased the demand for trained geologists and geophysicists . |
28 | Issues Challenging Catholic Education in the 1 990 's |
29 | The first of these was the Welfare approach which was in vogue from 1950 to the early 70 's and still exists in areas . |
30 | Catharsis there 's nothing like reflecting in tranquillity to help heal those wounds , and most of them were pretty bruised by the nineteen eighties ' experiences of the recent crop . |