Example sentences of "in [art] 1950s [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the French peasants of Village in the Vaucluse , Laurence Wylie still found in the 1950s that nearly all the older people were still at work . |
| 2 | But it was only in the 1950s that Greece set out to build a serious manufacturing sector — and immediately , unlike the Koreas and Spains of the world , found it was not capable of it . |
| 3 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 4 | And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here . |
| 5 | Over three and a half million more Germans fled from East Germany in the 1950s but were absorbed relatively easily , helped by the fact that generally many were young and skilled . |
| 6 | ‘ The basic idea originated in Siberia in the 1950s but it is only since the Cold War ended that people in the West have realised the potential of ideas such as this . ’ |
| 7 | Between 1950 and the mid 1970s in the Bolivian Andes , the production of cold and temperate-climate crops , grown by the peasantry , expanded at an average annual rate of 4.4 per cent , particularly high levels being recorded in the 1950s after agrarian reform ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 8 | In no sense whatever was Korean communism a monolithic movement ; it was riddled with internal divisions and did not become relatively unified until Kim Il Sung purged his opponents in the 1950s after the Korean War . |
| 9 | An English critic who attempted the task of keeping a balance between his political convictions and his aesthetic responses was John Berger , who wrote in the 1950s for the New Statesman . |
| 10 | In fact Shell , Britain 's leading oil company , marketed ether blends of petrol in the 1950s for hot-rod enthusiasts . |
| 11 | It spread rapidly first in the 1950s as the private-house market was decontrolled and building societies vastly extended their operations . |
| 12 | A further development was that the soil series adopted in the 1950s as soils with similar profiles , derived from similar materials under similar conditions of development as the basic unit for field mapping acquired a third dimension with the definition of the three-dimensional soil body or pedon ( Johnson , 1963 ) . |
| 13 | The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 . |
| 14 | There are , however , large areas of Britain 's cities which are different from either Bethnal Green in the 1950s or from these coal-mining areas . |
| 15 | Changes in the 1950s and early 1960s brought rationalised boundaries to create tighter geographical regions and eradicate penetrating lines and competition . |
| 16 | After a rush of taker-overs in the 1950s and 1960s , from Yeovil to Walsall , Charrington merged with the northern-based United Breweries . |
| 17 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 18 | Then , under Mao Tse-tung 's triumphant Communists in the 1950s and 1960s , it declined into a depressing , monochromatic shell of its former self . |
| 19 | In the 1950s and 1960s the royal castles were examined in detail by various authorities , but it was the great baronial buildings in Wales that attracted King . |
| 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 | They also believed that other countries were overtaking Britain in every way ; , and of course , as in the 1950s and 1960s , the fallacy of a ‘ declining share ’ of world trade etc. was easy to convey and difficult to expose . |
| 22 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 23 | In the 1950s and 1960s the annual rate of British price rises was modest by comparison with what was to follow in the 1970s . |
| 24 | Although the Falklands improved her standing , the approval ratings over her premiership are still lower than those for leaders in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 25 | In the 1950s and 1960s this ensured the rapid dissemination of such skills into towns and villages all over Kenya , and this process is being constantly reinforced . |
| 26 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 27 | These are followed by documents relating to the SI in Britain which include Ralph Rumney 's Psychogeographic Map of Venice ( 1957 ) , and brief statements by Michèle Bernstein which appear in the British press in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 28 | Finally , in the 1950s and 60s , new systems of rural credit were established in the district of Ludhiana which did appreciably alter the balance of power in Manupur . |
| 29 | The people who emigrated in the first stage were mainly farming families from the state of Gujerat ( see map ) and craft-workers from Punjab , while those who came directly to Britain in the 1950s and 60s were mainly farming families from Gujerat and the Indian and Pakistani areas of Punjab . |
| 30 | In the 1950s and 60s dowries in India went down generally because gold was controlled , but not so in East Africa , where dowries rose as though they would never stop . |