Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this was so clearly inadequate in the 1290s that Edward was forced to resort to his subjects , lay and clerical , for direct taxation on a national scale . |
| 2 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 3 | Perhaps the multitude of coal-pits near the Tyne were beginning to wear that look , and Camden observed in the 1580s that Sussex ‘ is full of iron mines , all over it ; for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country , and abundance of wood is yearly spent ; many streams are drawn into one channel , and a great deal of meadow ground is turned into ponds and pools for the driving mills by the flashes , which , beating with hammers upon the iron , fill the neighbourhood round about it , night and day with continual noise . ’ |
| 4 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 5 | It was in the Seventies that Dirk first learnt the useful art of poisoning . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 8 | More generally , it was in the 820s that Louis favoured transrhenani ( " men from across the Rhine " ) which gave him a strong network of loyalties in the east , though it came to be bitterly resented in the west . |
| 9 | In fact it was only in the 1940s that principles of gradation began to be rigidly and systematically applied to beginners ' courses in limited vocabularies . |
| 10 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 11 | This was , this was , if you like a record of the eye approach , we went round , we felt the air and erm , er made judgement , in the same that people like to be making judgements |