Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 2 | His report ( Cmnd 1432 , 1961 ) resulted in major reforms in the system of Treasury control , many of which remain in place today , though substantially modified in the intervening years . |
| 3 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 4 | The Norman exchequer ( probably instituted in the early years of the century , at the same time as its English counterpart ) used the tally , the chequered cloth , and the abacus to provide records for the illiterate and to overcome the considerable problems posed by the use of Roman numerals in addition and subtraction . |
| 5 | The basis of independent and safe personal mobility is best developed in skills established in the pre-school years and fostered in the early years at school . |
| 6 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 7 | " Capital sum " for these purposes has the same meaning as in s677. ( b ) Associated payments In relation to any capital sum paid to the settlor by a body corporate the expression " associated payment " means : ( i ) any capital sum paid to that body by the trustees of the settlement ; and ( ii ) any other sum paid or asset transferred to that body by those trustees which is not paid or transferred for full consideration in money or money 's worth being a sum paid or asset transferred in the five years ending or beginning with the date on which the capital sum is paid to the settlor ( s678(3) ) . |
| 8 | It is important to note here that although an analysis of individual texts follows , the point of this approach is to provide an overall picture of a pupil 's literary diet across a range of texts met in the lower years of the secondary school . |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
| 10 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 11 | Besides , such a prolific writer could hardly be ignored and his popularity moved through many decades by its own momentum , rather as Enid Blyton 's has done in the middle years of the present century . |
| 12 | Patching is more effective if done in the pre-school years . |
| 13 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 14 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 15 | Much the same impulse had been felt in the early years of reports by the APU . |
| 16 | If , however , they were too pessimistic this should have been belied in the subsequent years since the Nigerian Indigenization Decree of 1972 , implemented from February 1974 , which reserved twenty-six activities in large-scale industry exclusively for Nigerian ownership ; foreign companies operating in these businesses had to sell out . |
| 17 | What marked Suger out from other pseudo-Dionysians was firstly , that he translated his abstractions into concepts directly relevant to French politics in his own time , and secondly that he proclaimed his views in the influential Life of Louis VI , written in the early years of Louis VII 's reign . |
| 18 | The genius of the Dalmatians showed itself particularly in architecture , sculpture and literature , and their artistic output was sustained over many centuries from the builders of the early Christian churches of the seventh and eighth centuries to the eighteenth-century cathedral of Dubrovnik , and from Historia Salonitana , by the thirteenth-century Thomas , Archdeacon of Split , to the black comedies of Vlaho Stulli-Stulić , written in the closing years of the Ragusan republic and still performed today . |
| 19 | With the exception of the banqueting hall it was built in the early years of this century by the Edwardian architect Walter Godfrey . |
| 20 | Some 86 per cent of the plants built in the early years of the BEA were therefore the 30 and 60MW sets with standard steam conditions . |
| 21 | The research will focus on two broad categories of housing scheme : those built in the interwar years , and the four large peripheral estates built in the postwar years . |
| 22 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 23 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 24 | A particularly famous instance of the search for a natural religion is to be seen in the early years of the French Revolution . |
| 25 | The IPCC scientific assessment group predicts that without any measures to check greenhouse gas emissions the increase in the mean global temperature will be about 0.3 ° C per decade — greater than anything seen in the 10,000 years of the interglacial . |
| 26 | Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years . |
| 27 | Data from some of the detailed airborne geophysical surveys made in the early years of the MRP have been digitised . |
| 28 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 29 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 30 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |