Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of innovative work with colour coding ( now entirely dismantled ) by Carey at Hatfield Polytechnic Library in the 1970s where he emphasized that an effective library guiding system was an important prerequisite to any library instruction programme , the subject received little serious attention by libraries until the end of the decade . |
| 2 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 3 | But ‘ Commonwealth preference ’ was still important in the 1960s because it was granted on half the UK 's imports from Commonwealth countries . |
| 4 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 5 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 6 | ‘ My philosophy disagrees with theirs in the long-term because I think for them to succeed properly , they have to subvert from within . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 11 | LETTERS FROM MY FATHER ed by Amanda Allsop Alan Sutton , £4.99 I USED to encounter Kenneth Allsop frequently in the Sixties when we broadcast together on BBC book programmes . |
| 12 | I knew Mrs Bugler in the Sixties when she came to stay with my cousin Snaebjorn Jonsson , the translator of Hardy 's work and poems into Icelandic , at Portchester , Hants . |
| 13 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 14 | He digs his bed up in the stable if he 's too warm and digs great holes in his field . |
| 15 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 16 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's something terribly … decadent about lazing in the Caribbean when it 's raining in England , ’ she murmured . |
| 18 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 19 | That is a product of the present lack of interest in the construction industry which the Minister must address , because the skills shortage is of crucial concern not only to those in the industry but to Britain , because we must invest in training in the 1990s if we are to survive . |
| 20 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 21 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 22 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 23 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 24 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 25 | In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down . |
| 26 | D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere . |
| 27 | Suppose her mother were n't conscious enough to make an Act of Perfect Contrition in the second before she died , well , she 'd probably have to go to purgatory for a bit and burn . |
| 28 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |