Example sentences of "in [art] 1970s " in BNC.
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1 | This is why collections by the provisionals in public houses were having partial success in the 1970s without too much interference by the Garda , the Republic 's police force . |
2 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
3 | It is also true that the religious practice of those who attend vocational schools has been significantly inferior to those who attended catholic secondary schools , at least in the 1970s ( Nic Ghiolla Phadraig 1980 ) . |
4 | It is likely that children have the important function in a new housing area of bringing parents and neighbours together , particularly when there is a lack of other social amenities — a characteristic of new housing areas in and around Dublin in the 1970s . |
5 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
6 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
7 | The tennis camp was started in the 1970s by Hopman , the renowned Australian Davis Cup coach who died in 1985 . |
8 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
9 | In the 1970s the word was excursion , even then hardly fashionable , conveying an image of day trips to Blackpool and kiss-me-quick hats , of FA Cup tie specials ( when football supporters swung rattles instead of knives ) , and of the classical BR Sunday Mystery Tour , when for ten and sixpence , you could be pretty certain of finishing up at Barry Island ( again ) . |
10 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
11 | In the 1970s there were only two types of potential replacement DMU being considered by BR 's passenger marketing people and the engineers . |
12 | then , in the 1970s , the pendulum of style swung back to the cloudy , sedimented type , which is seen as a more natural product by today 's young audience . |
13 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
14 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
15 | I recall a Saturday midday lecture to Oxford undergraduate and graduate students in the 1970s when , after riveting them with a talk about double fluorescent labelling , he asked if they would be interested in hearing about experiments on motor systems ; they said they would and they abandoned lunch to listen . |
16 | As the Polish authorities learnt in the 1970s , and the Soviet ones recently in Georgia , shooting strikers or demonstrators does not deter a mass movement but merely infuriates it and provides it with martyrs . |
17 | In the 1970s , when he was known as ‘ Jacky des Halles ’ , he was prominent in the world of organised crime . |
18 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
21 | In the 1970s the government of Valery Giscard D'Estaing made a huge investment in the French telecommunications industry , giving it one of the most modern infrastructures in the world . |
22 | The show is dominated by more than life-size naked bronze men inspired by the majestic Hellenistic bronze warriors rescued from the sea off southern Italy in the 1970s . |
23 | In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material . |
24 | In the 1970s , he improvised on single props in a room ; today , his work is more structured , more theatrical . |
25 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
26 | Lloyd 's argues that many members who are leaving are those with limited resources who joined the market during a period of rapid expansion in the 1970s . |
27 | Meanwhile , France 's Minister for Research and Technology urged the two US winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize to honour Dominique Stehelin , a Frenchman who took part in the award-winning cancer research at the University of California in the 1970s . |
28 | In the 1970s , at the University of Washington in Seattle , he succeeded in isolating a single electron and holding it in his trap for nearly 10 months before losing it . |
29 | In the 1970s , the two were independently studying how the information necessary to specify living creatures , which is stored in the DNA molecule , was transcribed and its instructions expressed to make living cells . |
30 | In the 1970s his language did indeed seem a little old-fashioned . |