Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the 1930s " in BNC.
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1 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |
2 | For the rest , the best advice for economic policy-makers is to recall two principles of sound central banking — one forgotten in the 1930s and the other in the 1970s . |
3 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |
4 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
5 | In the final analysis the economic policies pursued in the 1930s , and already outlined in Chapter 1 , were those dictated by a massive Conservative parliamentary majority . |
6 | In studying this period writers have tended to use ‘ government ’ to refer to elected party or civilian cabinets , whose position is eroded in the 1930s as the state became even more totalitarian . |
7 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
8 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
9 | Some were , of course , ephemeral , including books and articles written in the 1930s when he lived by his pen . |
10 | A book about voodoo in Haiti written in the 1930s might seem an unlikely candidate for an NI Classic — especially since it has just gone out of print . |
11 | Grouped by region , date and school , the casts were displayed in the palais du Trocadero built for the 1878 Exposition Universelle and expanded in the 1930s as part of a constantly evolving display . |
12 | The house was built in the 1930s by Eliška Junkova , a celebrated female racing driver with a love of Bugatti motorcars . |
13 | During the past ten to 15 years a few new bungalows have been built , and with the eight council houses built in the 1930s , there is a pleasing variety of architectural styles . |
14 | Built in the 1930s this is still well supported and is used practically every day . |
15 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
16 | The house was built in the 1930s and faces south with glorious views of Dartmoor , shared by all the principal bedrooms . |
17 | Quite ordinary buildings — a Kirin beer hall built in the 1930s , for example — or a small stand of camphor trees , survived at a distance of only 700 metres from the epicentre . |
18 | Some houses , particularly those built in the 1930s and before , still have a predominantly lead system . |
19 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
20 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
21 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
22 | But it should be remembered that such hesitation was an endemic feature of British politics during the inter-war years and was even exhibited in the 1930s when fascism , that other major problem of the age , threatened to consume Britain and Europe . |
23 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
24 | Another kind of insight to be added to this model can be gained from other people 's responses to the same , or similar places Dame Laura Knight RA , in her autobiography The Magic of a Line gives an insight into how the Malverns were seen in the 1930s . |
25 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
26 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
27 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
28 | A cine film made in the 1930s of the last known thylacine , restlessly pacing its lonely zoo cage , shows an uncannily dog-like animal , its marsupial nature betrayed only by its slightly undog-like way of holding its pelvis and back legs , presumably something to do with accommodating its pouch . |
29 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
30 | The Black Muslims , founded in the 1930s grew fast in the 1960s ; their most celebrated recruit was Muhammed Ali , the world heavyweight boxing champion . |