Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [num] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |
| 2 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 3 | Only three well-executed monuments have been identified as by Stanley , all of them of the 1740s and obviously reminiscent of those by Scheemakers . |
| 4 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 5 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 6 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |
| 7 | In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today . |
| 8 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 9 | Both organisations have encouraged younger women to join them in the eighties and nineties and there is some indication that their membership is on the increase . |
| 10 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 11 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 12 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 13 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |
| 14 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |