Example sentences of "in the [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 2 | It all started in the 1970s when the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory designed a network called the Cambridge Ring . |
| 3 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 4 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 5 | It happened in Italy in the 1960s when the Communist Party had between 38 and 40 per cent for the entire decade . |
| 6 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 7 | The madrigal substantially appeared in England only in the 1580s when the English mania for the Italian reached its height — for instance , in the poetry of Spenser and Philip Sidney . |
| 8 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 16 | The man had been trained in the 1950s when the ‘ tactile ’ approach to teaching was favoured . |
| 17 | A general system of multilateral trade and payments became more tenable in the 1950s when the European Payments Union was formed to take over payment settlements between European countries ( including their colonies and dependencies ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 24 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 25 | Commercial use finally ceased in the 1930s when the machinery was removed and the domestic conversion carried out . |
| 26 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
| 27 | 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 . |