Example sentences of "[art] [num] was a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid . |
| 2 | The 1870s was a period of vigorous debate concerning the need to change Japanese society . |
| 3 | The second of the three was a nursery car for the use of the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne . |
| 4 | The intercensal period of the 1970s was a decade of unprecedented decentralization in the UK , USA , and elsewhere , over more extensive geographical scales than hitherto ( Champion 1983 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the 1970s was a time when people were beginning to take a little bit more pride in their motor cars . |
| 6 | In summary , the 1970s was a period when inequality and gender were publicly debated , when unions , largely to further their own interests , were trying to redress the powerlessness of women within their organisations , and when sociologists first recognised gender as an indispensable concept for the analysis of productive relations of the workplace and reproductive relations of the home . |
| 7 | As part of a journalistic and sociological school of film-viewing , Haskell 's work tended to ask ‘ why this film now ? ’ ; this approach assumes by and large that unambiguous answers can be given , that ideology ( sexism ) can be ‘ read off ’ the film text , as , for example , in Haskell 's well-known argument that the violence against women and the absence of big female leading parts in the films of the 1970s was a matter of a backlash against an emerging women 's movement . |
| 8 | Soho Square in the 1780s was a marshalling place for sheep and cattle . |
| 9 | The eighties was a decade of paradoxes , great and small . |
| 10 | In the event , the restored Anglican church of the 1660s was a conservative , in some respects even Laudian church , which large numbers of Presbyterians , Baptists , and Quakers could not in conscience bring themselves to join . |
| 11 | DUBLIN in the 1880s was a city where poverty and wealth existed sided by side . |
| 12 | Firstly , the 70's was a period of considerable world wide corporate growth and , secondly , economic recession associated with structural change in the UK economy focused attention on manpower as a priority area in terms of productivity and cost control . |
| 13 | The appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s was a failure of will . |
| 14 | But the end of the 1930s was a time of trial for him . |
| 15 | Behind each of the two was a two-inch naval gun , and a pair of Schwarlose model 07 machine guns . |
| 16 | The 1960s was a decade of great excitement , creativity and energy . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the 1960s was a decade of ecological mismanagement . |
| 18 | The 1960s was a period when greater opportunities were open to women and the ‘ sexual revolution ’ , rather than being liberating , helped to diffuse the potential threat to male power . |
| 19 | In effect the international relations literature of the 1960s was a set of variations on the Morgenthau paradigm . |
| 20 | At one time confined to the south and east of the country , the stock dove spread as arable farming expanded in the 19th century ; but the introduction of organo-chlorine seed dressings in the 1960s was a disaster . |
| 21 | A second strand in research of the 1960s was a consequence of the increasing focus upon processes which gave indications of the magnitude of human activity and also led to the inauguration of research investigations specifically designed to measure the magnitude of man by comparing man-modified and unmodified areas or by measuring one area before , during and after the effects of man . |
| 22 | The 1950s was a period when state intervention in childhood was highly visible . |
| 23 | The fours was a fairytale finish for Brian Daly 's Belmont rink which had earlier beaten Graham on an extra end in the semi-final , when they completely outbowled the Dunluce four skipped by Malcolm McMullen . |
| 24 | According to Atwater , at the time There was nothing new as such about grass roots lobbying , but the sophistication and skill brought to this tactic by the Reaganites in the new conditions of the 1980s was a development of great significance . |
| 25 | One of the features which noticeably emerged in the 1980s was a struggle for control of the past , a confrontation primarily between those who perceive contemporary western civilisation as a triumph and those who question such a perspective . |