Example sentences of "in the [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of Soviet military facilities in Africa and the Middle East in the 1970s discouraged Soviet leaders from attempting to invest substantial military commitments in remote and volatile Third World states elsewhere , especially when they were in areas of clearly proclaimed American interest . |
| 2 | Many colleges were originally teachers ' colleges which diversified their provision in the 1970s to include broad-based arts , social science and science degrees . |
| 3 | The supervisory powers of the party in East Germany were considerably extended in the 1970s to include educational institutions , medical establishments , government ministries and other parts of the central administration , going beyond reporting mistakes and inefficiencies to the exercise of control to ensure conformity to party decisions and observance of ‘ socialist legal norms ’ . |
| 4 | The evolution of the international economy in the 1970s encouraged major banks in most countries to seek overseas representation and involvement . |
| 5 | However , the increase in oil prices in the 1970s gave fresh support to the coal industry , major new pits were initiated in North Yorkshire and Leicestershire and job losses were still moderate when manufacturing fell under the impact of recession in 1980 . |
| 6 | What was true in the 1970s has equal relevance to the present and the future . |
| 7 | Major growth areas of TBDF in the 1970S included international airline systems ( for seat reservations and related information ) , and international credit card networks . |
| 8 | Lauterbrunnen has a spectacular setting in the sheer sided Lauterbrunnen Valley . |
| 9 | A full list of projects will appear in JFIT News and also in the 1991 JFIT Annual report due to be published in October . |
| 10 | Several other groups made their way south in the 1630s to establish new settlements on the south shore between the Plymouth region and the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam at the mouth of the Hudson River . |
| 11 | Thirdly , European industrialisation and population growth in the 1800s encouraged cheap food imports and thus stimulated economic development in North America and elsewhere . |
| 12 | Elections were held on Oct. 14 in the five recreated eastern Länder . |
| 13 | These nonconformists or dissenters — were no longer , however , simply allowed to opt out and organize their own services , for the legislation of the Clarendon Code passed in the 1660s made any such unauthorized meetings for worship illegal . |
| 14 | But only with the opening of the emancipationist campaign in the 1820s did local societies again become a major organisational feature of antislavery . |
| 15 | She has already established a number of landmarks in political history and psephology : the first woman Prime Minister in any major western industrial state ; the first leader since Lord Liverpool in the 1820s to win three elections in a row , and Prime Minister for the longest uninterrupted spell in the twentieth century . |
| 16 | The original installation provided in the 1960s comprised two main passenger lifts , together with an adjacent baggage lift . |
| 17 | The Scala in the 1960s showed all-night horror films . |
| 18 | Neighbour Linda Moore told the court she often went to Coventry to escape the sound of Jim Reeves , whose hits in the 1960s included Distant Drums , It Hurts So Much and I Love You Because . |
| 19 | In the 1979 survey more people said they had used HP at least sometime in the past than any other type of credit . |
| 20 | The Retros are firmly based in the sixties performing old hits as well as their own material . |
| 21 | In the former case help is needed to acknowledge the changing nature of society , and in the latter to become bi-lingual , as it were , in a deeper way . |
| 22 | IBM and Motorola expect to be producing PowerPCs in the millions starting next year , aiming to capture a 20% market share in 1996 or 30% to 40% of the desktop market . |
| 23 | IBM and Motorola expect to be producing PowerPCs in the millions starting next year , and they intend to capture a 20% market share in 1996 or 30% to 40% of the desktop market . |
| 24 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 25 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 26 | But the facile equation of silence with consent frequently results in the powerful forming exaggerated ideas of the degree of support or acquiescence they can command . |
| 27 | There may be a reluctance to carry out endoscopy in the elderly to obtain small bowel biopsy specimens on the grounds that the procedure is unsafe in the old and frail . |
| 28 | For a painter in the 1990s to attempt this sort of transcendent landscape is rather startling , and , frankly , I am not at all sure that it comes off . |
| 29 | Formed in 1899 , the Alliance brought together antisocialist Liberal and Tory members , whose interests had until the ascent of the labour group in the 18908 dominated local politics ( Marriott 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Official American Library Association publications in the 19305 paid regular tribute to the multi-media idea ( there is some evidence that British librarians maintained illustrations collections and by I 935 record collections without so much publicity ) . |