Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Commonwealth preference ’ was still important in the 1960s because it was granted on half the UK 's imports from Commonwealth countries . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 3 | Their enthusiasm remains as infectious in the 90s as it was over a decade ago and we proudly welcome them to the Guinness Spot for their first and keenly anticipated visit to Belfast . |
| 4 | DMT existed in the streets in the Sixties where it gained a reputation as the businessman 's acid , because it could be smoked and did n't last too long . |
| 5 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's something terribly … decadent about lazing in the Caribbean when it 's raining in England , ’ she murmured . |
| 7 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 8 | In the first instance the picture of God is at fault because it is all wrong , and in the second because it is too small . |
| 9 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 10 | in the fifties when it first started and how |
| 11 | Perhaps the most important advance is the recognition of the need to place the child 's interests and welfare above any other considerations — although this may prove simpler in the abstract than it is in practice . |
| 12 | And I think the Catholic Church has stayed the same there ; it 's back in the 1950s whereas it 's collapsed healthily down here . |
| 13 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 14 | The location-factor school argued that regional policy was the most important cause of decentralization in the '60s because it was the factor most significantly correlated with change in manufacturing employment , that is , it matched the pattern of relative manufacturing growth most closely . |
| 15 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 16 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 17 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |
| 18 | Members agree that proposal continue on in the ideal although it was commendable to set high standards . |
| 19 | The Communist Party of Great Britain , which was thus excluded from the Labour Party on its foundation was by far the most important Left minority in existence in the 1930s although it had to compete with the ILP for that position at least until 1935 . |
| 20 | The identity , however , is converted into a theory of the determination of the price level by assuming : ( a ) that the money supply is determined by the monetary authorities ; ( b ) that the number of transactions is fixed in the short-run because of the classical presumption that the economy operates automatically at full employment ; and ( c ) that the velocity of circulation is also fixed in the short-run because it depends largely on institutional factors ( such as whether workers are paid weekly or monthly ) which themselves tend to remain constant for long periods of time . |
| 21 | In both cases the shock had to be overwhelming and painful in the extreme if it was to generate the civilizing consequences of respect for , and maintenance of , the great taboos of civilization . |