Example sentences of "[coord] by [art] [num] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1633 , one of the leading Arminians , William Laud , who had been the king 's chief religious adviser since the beginning of the reign , was appointed to succeed Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury , and by the mid-1630s most of the other bishops ' thrones were also occupied by Arminians . |
| 2 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 3 | Charles 's own inclination was always towards a pro-French and anti-Dutch policy , though marriages between the Stuart family and the ruling Dutch House of Orange slightly restrained him and by the 1670s most Englishmen were beginning to be a little worried by the increasing power of France . |
| 4 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 5 | Eliot 's Four Quartets , like Pound 's Cantos , alternate dizzyingly between the sceptical and the dogmatic , and by the 1950s that paradox had come to look insoluble . |
| 6 | Catholic teachers turned with new confidence to biblical criticism , but by the 1980s many of its presuppositions were being questioned and its power to generate real understanding doubted . |
| 7 | A considerable proportion of this first generation of Peter 's representatives in western Europe were foreigners in Russian service ; but by the 1720s these had been replaced by native-born Russians . |
| 8 | In the first decade of this century 55 per cent of women had three or more children and 25 per cent more than five , but by the 1940s these figures were 30 per cent and 9 per cent respectively . |
| 9 | The majority of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century grave-clothes were still being manufactured in London but by the 1830s more were coming from the Lancashire area . |