Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the self-employed even the self-employed status |
| 2 | Imports continued into the 1950s and the black-and-whites began to spread to other parts of the country , continuing to spread and increase during the 1960s when the national herd as a whole was decreasing . |
| 3 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 4 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 5 | Moreover , overcapacity reduced margins during the 1980s when the real costs of construction rose , thus creating higher barriers to entry . |
| 6 | During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate . |
| 7 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 8 | If we work through the former alone the range of choice or the breadth of the spectrum will vary from area to area . |
| 9 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 10 | If however the adhesive strength of the interface is less than about one-fifth of the general cohesive strength of the solid then the interface will be broken before the main crack reaches it and a crack trap or crack stopper has been created . |
| 11 | The Ethiopian famine of 1984 — 5 was a more severe relation of the Ethiopian famine of the 1970s yet the latter was consigned to a memory which is rarely mined for information and for the lessons of history . |
| 12 | During the détente years of the 1970s when the USSR appeared as a revisionist power in the Third World its interest in neutralisation slackened . |
| 13 | Without the consent of the latter neither the succession to the throne nor the territorial limits of the Grand Duchy were to be changed ; nor was war to be declared or existing legislation altered . |
| 14 | In Teesside seats outside of the two where the Conservatives had famous victories , only Dr. Marjorie Mowlam won for Labour with a anti-Tory swing anything like that necessary to put the national outcome into hung parliament country . |
| 15 | If the answer is no to even one of the above then the product is not truly providing a replacement for the layout artist , that 's the human who normally does page makeup . |
| 16 | She sat up slowly in the bed … and immediately amended her count to three glasses ; she had spilt most the contents of the fourth down the front of her muslin pyjamas and onto the lace coverlet . |
| 17 | On the Labour side , these members were the products of the 1930s when the main issue in politics was insufficiency . |
| 18 | By Leonard Barden THE EASY Soviet victory in this week 's world team championship at Lucerne recalled the palmy days of the 1950s when the generation of Botvinnik and Smyslov , Bronstein and Keres , outclassed opponents . |
| 19 | This in in sharp contrast to the 1970s and most of the 1980s when the UGT and CCOO were bitterly at odds . |
| 20 | Bland believes that a catastrophic faux pas was made at the start of the 1980s when the Scandinavians introduced the red light against the South African golfers . |
| 21 | By the end of the 1980s all the major governments in the West were carrying out reviews and costing of environmental policies . |
| 22 | It was reorganised in 1721 ; and from the 1750s onwards the foreign policies of the monarchy were given greater continuity by a purely personal factor — the very long tenure of the post of Court and State Chancellor , for over forty years from his appointment in 1753 , by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg . |
| 23 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 24 | When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 . |
| 25 | On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . |
| 26 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 27 | By comparison with other intermediaries growth has been slow , at least until the 1980s when the value of investment trusts ' assets almost doubled ( 1981–86 ) . |
| 28 | Until the 1980s when the moves to create the SEM began to assume major importance , the formation of a CU was the main method used by the EC to integrate the economies of the member states . |
| 29 | It all started in the 1970s when the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory designed a network called the Cambridge Ring . |
| 30 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |