Example sentences of "[art] [num] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we forget , in these days , that in the Thirties a young person left school at fourteen , and in many cases , went straight to a job . |
| 2 | By the mid-1860s a middle-class holiday boom was already transforming parts of the British coastline with seafront promenades , piers and other embellishments , which enabled landed proprietors to draw unsuspected profits from hitherto uneconomic stretches of cliff and beach . |
| 3 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 4 | In the 1890s a prominent establishment figure , General Tani Kanjó , had called for greater attention to be given to the interests of the farming population . |
| 5 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 6 | From a scrummage on the 22 a double mis-move by Hepburn created the gap for centre Wilcoxon to score under the posts . |
| 7 | Acclaimed as a Pre-Raphaelite painter by this school 's chief commentator W. M. Rossetti [ q.v. ] in 1871 , she became during the 1870s a recognized member of that group of artists seen by critics to be following in the footsteps of Dante Gabriel Rossetti [ q.v. ] and Burne-Jones . |
| 8 | During the Seventies a hazy eroticism was on offer every week , courtesy of Pan 's People in their gold Lurex hot pants . |
| 9 | Here , there was from the 1740s a considerable expansion in the number of women working at the surface , for from then to the 1850s the mining of copper was of greater importance than tin and , as was pointed out in 1810 , " the copper mines when in full working employ a good number of women and children who are useless about tin " . |
| 10 | Hugh Kenner , for instance , in a work of massive scholarship , The Pound Era ( 1971 ) , can write : ‘ By the mid-1920s a massive triviality , a failure of will on a truly forbidding scale , was allowing English culture to lapse into shapes characterized by childishness , self-indulgence , utter predictability ’ . |
| 11 | WHEN America joined World War II in the 1940s a serious shortage arose — of baseball . |
| 12 | In the 1970s a small number of feminist critics accused most of these influential and widely cited texts of sexism , ( targets included A. Campbell et al , The American Voter ; G. Almond and S. Verba , The Civic Culture ; R. Lane , Political Life ; R. A. Dahl , Who Governs ? ) . |
| 13 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 14 | In the USA in the 1970s a middle-class child raised through four years at college cost $74,000 and $145,000 if the wife 's opportunity costs were included as well ( Espenshade 1980 ) . |
| 15 | In the 1970s a worldwide seminar on the use of vibration was held in Japan . |
| 16 | In the 1970s a temporary oil facility was established through which oil exporters made finance available , via the Fund , to assist the balance of payments problems caused by the sudden rise in the price of oil . |
| 17 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 18 | This was by no means an accident , since throughout the 1970s a powerful body of media , political , and academic opinion had been constructed around the theme of how Britain was drifting into a ‘ violent society ’ , and how the basis of consent was being shifted by the pressures of immigration and the growth of multi-racial inner city areas . |
| 19 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 20 | During the 1920s a terminal building was built , with capacity to deal with 10,000 passengers an hour . |
| 21 | This was steady , if less marked in the early years of Japanese rule , but in the 1920s a large increase in the number of publication permits issued by the authorities occurred . |
| 22 | In the 1920s a local man was in a terrible state of nerves and he too visited the bridge with the one thought in his mind . |
| 23 | By the 1920s a characteristic book , as for example Cézanne : a study of his development by Roger Fry , published in 1927 , had black and white photographic illustrations only . |
| 24 | In the 1770s a new drink began to enter the Irish market from London . |
| 25 | During the 1930s a strong pacifist movement came into being which was not tied to a major party although most of its supporters were Labour or Liberal voters . |
| 26 | ‘ In the 1930s a commercial traveller staying overnight at the castle informed his host the next day that he had seen an apparition during the night — a young lady with long blonde hair wearing a gown with green silk puff sleeves . |
| 27 | There was thus from the 1850s a sharp growth of European consular representation in the outside world , particularly in Asia . |
| 28 | For example , it could be argued that a boom and slump lasting in total from about 1790 to 1840 was initiated by the Industrial Revolution 's typical innovations ( cotton spinning and weaving ; new methods of iron production ; steam power ) ; that from the mid-1840s a new boom was generated by the development of railways which initiated a fifty-year cycle ; that from the 1890s a new boom and long cycle stemmed from electrification . |
| 29 | In education there was during the 1960s a gradual shift towards comprehensive secondary schooling partly prompted by a ( false ) belief that such schooling would help eradicate the worst ine-qualities ( class , not gender ) of the tripartite system , as shown by researchers in the sociology of education ( see Finn , Grant and Johnson , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | There was , however , he suggests , a shift away from legal moralism , and through the reformist legislation of the 1960s a certain amount of ‘ piecemeal moral engineering ’ was achieved . |