Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [art] mid-1980s " in BNC.

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1 DAN RATHER , the CBS News anchorman , once regarded as the most trusted person in America , has yet to answer charges that he aired faked battle footage and false news accounts of the war in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s .
2 The founding of the NLSC in the mid-1980s coincided with dramatic changes in the City .
3 While at the Guggenheim Dr Barnett curated three documentary exhibitions on Kandinsky in the mid-1980s and was subsequently invited by Jean K. Benjamin , the co-author of the Kandinsky paintings catalogue raisonné ( with the late Dr Hans Konrad Roethel ) to embark on the watercolour volumes .
4 There was also unease at the PLO 's propensity to act against local opinion , witnessed in its treatment of the home-grown NGC in the late 1970s , its abuse of Joint Committee funds for politically corrupt purposes , and in Arafat 's flirtation with Husayn in the mid-1980s .
5 The unpopularity of the rates , very evident in Scotland in the mid-1980s , led the government to adopt the poll tax or community charge .
6 The commission solicited proposals from North American museums and received three positive responses : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York reaffirmed interest in becoming a full collaborator ( it was the Guggenheim 's current director , Thomas Krens , who conceived of MASSMoCA in the mid-1980s while director of the nearby Williams College Art Museum ; he has since dissociated himself to avoid conflict of interest ) ; the ICA Boston proposed developing shared programs , mainly exhibitions ; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto offered to place a single large installation on long-term loan .
7 However , it is surely worth noting that in September 1980 the South African Journal of Science carried in article by Vines ( vol 76 , p 404 ) in which he considered the prospect of extended drought conditions in South Africa in the mid-1980s .
8 The idea of Europe 1992 , or was it 1993 , launched with such élan by Jacques Delors in the mid-1980s has now run its course .
9 It is a sign of the programme 's success that in the UK in the mid-1980s there were 283,000 Limousin inseminations ( from 40 bulls ) , representing more than 10 per cent of all artificial inseminations .
10 Most of the CDU were now prepared to accept Ostpolitik given its popularity , even if East Germany in the mid-1980s was as authoritarian as ever .
11 This happened in Bolivia in the mid-1980s .
12 Nevertheless , these data might suggest that a golden age of housing had arrived , but there is also clear evidence of substantial housing stress in Britain in the mid-1980s .
13 T.4 WJ866 , having been with 231 OCU until transfer to the Navy in 1969 , was borrowed from FRADU at Yeovilton in the mid-1980s to ease the shortage of T.4s .
14 Later , on Oct. 1 , he claimed that Gates 's role " was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence " , exemplified by his doctoring of assessments of the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981 in order to suggest KGB involvement , and his wilfully inflated estimate of Soviet influence in Iran in the mid-1980s in order to justify the sale of arms to so-called moderates in Tehran — the first step toward the Iran-contra scandal .
15 The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s .
16 Furthermore , a more comprehensive national picture of child care placements , carried out on a sample of over 2,000 such decisions by Rowe in the mid-1980s ( Rowe et al . ,
17 The transformation of Tesco in the mid-1980s owed much to the company 's new finance director , headhunted from International Stores , and the new productivity director , who was recruited from Safeways .
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