Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , apparently , its availability in Eastern Europe during the late-Eighties helped hasten the collapse of Communism — which is certainly more of a revolutionary achievement than either of the other two music forms managed . |
| 2 | Paper , and parchment before it , have a long shelf life although acid paper used in abundance after the 1830s did contain the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 3 | Four out of the six do maintain at least one library in a business division . |
| 4 | And fashions of the eighteen-forty did rely quite a lot on very close fitting garments , so I do n't , I think that 's the reason why they were n't more popular and did n't develop faster than they did . |
| 5 | On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power . |
| 6 | In the event , empirical work in general ( as noted above ) does not appear to confirm the presence of large disincentive effects , although for negative income tax ( NIT ) , experiments in the USA undertaken in the 1970s did produce significant negative-work-hours responses of the order of 7 per cent reduction for males , 25 per cent for wives and 15 per cent for female heads of households ( see Robins and West 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 8 | The problem of the Hegelian model , particularly of a historicism which presupposes a governing structure of self-realization in all historical process , is by no means confined to post-war French Marxism , but the dominance of Hegelian Marxism from the thirties to the fifties does explain the particular context for the French poststructuralist assault . |