Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the 1950s " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 2 | British filmmaking ticked over during the 1950s , for the most part without any great ambition , or yen for artistic adventure . |
| 3 | Leninism 's cult of a quasi-military party also placed a premium on discipline and extended Moscow 's control over national parties into a rigid straitjacket on doctrine right through into the 1950s . |
| 4 | Whyte ( 1980 ) provides several instances of the influence of the Roman catholic moral code in both state decision-making and in public behaviour from 1922 through to the 1950s . |
| 5 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 6 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 7 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 8 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 10 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 11 | When Glass ( 1954 ) studied trends up to the 1950s , he found that although many men experienced mobility , most of this was short-range and across the middle levels of the hierarchy in a ‘ buffer zone ’ . |
| 12 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 13 | Consistent with conversationist bodies , however , we are appalled by much of the development of our pub heritage carried out during the 1950s and '60s . |
| 14 | That example was tossed out during the 1950s , when McCarthyites took issue with it . |
| 15 | In a review of studies on productivity and ageing carried out in the 1950s and 1960s , one researcher concluded that ‘ productivity is , by and large , affected only minimally , if at all , by age . ’ |
| 16 | It is difficult to obtain accurate figures from the wilder , more snake-ridden parts of the world , such as Africa , Asia and South America , but an attempt at a global survey carried out in the 1950s gave a total world figure of thirty thousand deaths annually from all forms of snakebite . |
| 17 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 18 | Thoughts on women and politics generally tended to emerge on an ad hoc basis as a by-product of empirical studies into voting behaviour and political participation carried out in the 1950s and 60s . |
| 19 | Yet back in the 1950s there was the ‘ Teddy Boy ’ to alarm the public and to set against the allegedly poor but honest inter-war years when people could leave their doors unlocked . |
| 20 | At the time of the building of Calder Hall , back in the 1950s , there were military implications — but that was many Moons ago . ) |
| 21 | Back in the 1950s when Alfred Kinsey carried out his pioneering work very few married couples ( in America at any rate ) practised oral sex of any sort . |
| 22 | Back in the 1950s Jim Corbett gave the tiger ten years before it became extinct . |
| 23 | Back in the 1950s , when the New York School was going into full session and paint was seriously flying in Village studios , it was always the work that was important , not the persona of the artist . |
| 24 | And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here . |
| 25 | There was a German doctor , back in the 1950s . |
| 26 | Thus was sexual liberation defined by an almost exclusively male heterosexual group , drawing on old subversions — Dada , Surrealism , Beat , Situationism — diffused through the mass-market expansion into commercial sex that Playboy had pioneered back in the 1950s . |
| 27 | Studies of pause patterns in speech have been carried out since the 1950s . |
| 28 | A : Classique Tours of Paisley ( 041 889 4050 ) runs fascinating tours taking in the Hebridean Islands , Royal Deeside or the Borders , using comfortable , small , classic buses , many dating back to the 1950s and 60s . |
| 29 | The new-look lessons will turn the clock back to the 1950s — the days before learning by rote ceased to be popular in schools . |
| 30 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |