Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [pers pn] had " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices .
3 Actually it started to rain and when we had just got in the then we had to get out again .
4 In the latter they had to cope with de-skilling innovations in technology and organisation as well as with the effects of rapid population growth on the labour market .
5 In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta .
6 So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground .
7 In the 1920s it had been relatively easy for the students to obtain good jobs : but not now .
8 ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’
9 Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done .
10 In the 1950s he had condemned the French Fourth Republic as a weak regime , vacillating in its policies , too often a victim rather than a shaper of international events .
11 In the 1950s he had failed to advance far in the party nationally , and had instead made his name as internal affairs minister in the Land of Hamburg after 1961 .
12 Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 .
13 You know in the forties they had just soil and stones you know ?
14 In the 1770s she had envisaged the abolition of serfdom in Bohemia , Joseph merely its amelioration : his attitude probably contributed to the outbreak in the province of the peasant revolt of 1775 .
15 While in the United States in the 1890s he had been heavily influenced by the Populist and Democratic Parties ' assault on the Gold Standard .
16 The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 .
17 Born in the 1880s he had been educated in Switzerland long before Reza Shah 's establishment of a dynasty in his own name , and had been exiled to the north-east of Iran .
18 And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth .
19 In the 980s he had followers who took church lands , some of which he returned a decade later , blaming previous actions on bad influence during his youth .
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