Example sentences of "the [adj] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
2 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
3 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
4 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
5 | There are two common types of fitting : one where the waste pipe is simply pushed into the outlet of the trap ; the second where a plastic ‘ compression ’ joint — using a rubber or plastic washer to make the seal is incorporated into the outlet of the trap . |
6 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
7 | The first where the client does not require any reference at all to KPMG in the advertisement ; the second where the advertisement refers to KPMG . |
8 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
9 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
10 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
11 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
12 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
13 | The appointment of Fyfe to Warrington in 1921 was , however , the exception rather than the rule in the 1920s when the majority of missioners appointed or holding the posts were clergymen or hearing persons . |
14 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
15 | Commercial use finally ceased in the 1930s when the machinery was removed and the domestic conversion carried out . |
16 | Perhaps the biggest event in recent times was in the 1950s when a film company made the church the setting for the film Lease of Life with Robert Donat . |
17 | The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness . |
18 | By Leonard Barden THE EASY Soviet victory in this week 's world team championship at Lucerne recalled the palmy days of the 1950s when the generation of Botvinnik and Smyslov , Bronstein and Keres , outclassed opponents . |
19 | Such a fine contrast to the wave of hysteria which greeted the rock craze in the 1950s when the press , predictably absorbed by the outlandish pleasures of the young , railed against its demoralising influence . |
20 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
21 | By comparison with other intermediaries growth has been slow , at least until the 1980s when the value of investment trusts ' assets almost doubled ( 1981–86 ) . |