Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course since that boom in the sixties we 've had the seventies ' economic depression , uncertainty about the future , the problem of the bomb , changed family attitudes , better contraception erm a great drop , and in fact a population a birth fall rather , of something like a third between nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty seven . |
| 2 | By the time Francis Place was serving his apprenticeship in the 1780s he and his fellows were avid consumers of leisure . |
| 3 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
| 4 | But in the political language of the right in the 1980s it is outside in the sense of being cast as alien , normally via the stigmata of race or socialism , the locus of criminal delinquency , the site of disorder . |
| 5 | At some point in the mid-660s he was forbidden by his father to go to Rome with Benedict Biscop , who was later to found the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow . |
| 6 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 7 | Cicely Courtneidge was put into a soldier 's costume and sent off to war in pursuit of her simple-minded husband in the clumsy Me and Marlborough ( 1935 ) . |
| 8 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 9 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 10 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 12 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 13 | One of his forebears was James Murray , compiler of the ‘ Oxford English Dictionary ’ , and when Les Murray went to Sydney University in the 1950s he spent his days ingesting the contents of the famous Fisher Library , which was ‘ full of the cultural wonders that bushies like me were despised for not having . ’ |
| 14 | In one case you are a pupil in the second you are a friend . |
| 15 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 16 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 17 | To comprehend some of the problems faced by British government in the 1980s it is necessary to know not only the structure and relationships of the political system but also the popular expectations and the burden of responsibilities borne by government . |
| 18 | Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle . |
| 19 | The only thing in the supplementary you did n't get was languages , but you got the the math , the science and all that , and English . |
| 20 | The way it gets most of its growth in the first I mean , |
| 21 | As a schoolboy in the 1940s I learnt a folk song with the verse : |
| 22 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 23 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 24 | Quite restrictive , but having gone through a phase of ambivalence about what population they could accommodate , one view was that there was no real problem , another view in the fifties it should be cut back . |
| 25 | The sea is as crystal clear as any spot in the Caribbean you might care to name . |