Example sentences of "of [art] 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | It encompasses an internal exploration of a personal history within a culture and inevitably differs in scale from much of the ‘ anthropology at home ’ which has become one of the genres of the 1980s . |
| 2 | At the start of the 1980s the British Railways business was still run by five regions : the Eastern , Western , Southern , London Midland , and Scottish . |
| 3 | All the present PTEs were already firmly established by the start of the 1980s , and they have survived the 1986 abolition of the metropolitan councils . |
| 4 | Sectors are of course the most significant creation of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Parker the concept of the commercial railway and the social railway was developed at the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s . |
| 6 | An important feature of the 1980s which has contributed to InterCity 's financial turnround is market segmentation and pricing — or the shaping of products to meet the needs of customer groupings . |
| 7 | By the second half of the 1980s InterCity was well on its way towards selfsufficiency and genuine operating profits . |
| 8 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
| 9 | By the close of the 1980s the West Coast had started to regain some of its old vitality and was emerging as the most utilised and profitable part of the InterCity network . |
| 10 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 11 | These were the opposite ends of the British special-train scene of the 1980s , on either side of a conscious divide where the key words were price and profit . |
| 12 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 13 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 14 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 15 | It was in station catering , so long the Cinderella , that the changed order of the 1980s made its first mark . |
| 16 | AT the beginning of the 1980s BR 's freight business retained many facets of the inefficient , labour-intensive system of yesteryear . |
| 17 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 18 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most exciting new build of the 1980s , however , was the small fleet of Class 59 locomotives built for Foster Yeoman of Merehead in Somerset . |
| 20 | Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design . |
| 21 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 22 | Indeed the overall score of the 1980s has been very uneven . |
| 23 | However , the new build highlight of the 1980s was undoubtedly the 6,000hp-plus , 140mph Class 91 intended for the full King 's Cross-Leeds/ Edinburgh electrification in 1991 . |
| 24 | The Sprinter DMU was one of BR 's greatest success stories of the 1980s — though there were severe setbacks from late deliveries , unreliability of one design , and a near-disastrous flirtation with cheap-to-build railbuses . |
| 25 | Even those in the Britain of the 1980s who would have liked to privatise the last municipal loo were n't too bothered about the Hops Marketing Board . |
| 26 | It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK — abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s , the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s , and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s . |
| 27 | He called the existing policy-making system as one ‘ designed for the 1920s which is wilting under the television lights of the 1980s ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to put behind us these tawdry , shabby years of the 1980s ’ materialism , the salmonella , listeria society of Thatcher . ’ |
| 29 | TOWARDS the end of a week of stocktaking at the Stuttgart Classic , in which some of the world 's leading male players have expressed mixed feelings about the way professional tennis is moving into the next decade , Boris Becker was asked to name his player of the 1980s . |
| 30 | For a good part of the 1980s , GM languished in the doldrums — burdened by a a top-heavy bureaucracy , losing market share to Japanese and domestic rivals , and saddled with a reputation as the biggest but highest-cost and least efficient US car maker . |