Example sentences of "in the [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This means that in the long-run the level of real income will always be at the level associated with full employment , whatever the price level . |
2 | In the long-run the provision of this support will need to be done electronically and suitable tools need to be developed to allow simultaneous interactive online support of users . |
3 | In the 1970s the company expanded into Northampton where it makes girls ' shoes , ladies ' shoes and men 's sandals . |
4 | As the volume of Treasury bills declined in the 1970s the discount houses facilitated the rapid growth in the commercial bill market . |
5 | In the 1970s the government of Valery Giscard D'Estaing made a huge investment in the French telecommunications industry , giving it one of the most modern infrastructures in the world . |
6 | In the late 1960s and in the 1970s the development of administrative law was strongly influenced by Lord Reid and Lord Denning , both of whom were in favour of expanding judicial control of government . |
7 | In the 1970s the word was excursion , even then hardly fashionable , conveying an image of day trips to Blackpool and kiss-me-quick hats , of FA Cup tie specials ( when football supporters swung rattles instead of knives ) , and of the classical BR Sunday Mystery Tour , when for ten and sixpence , you could be pretty certain of finishing up at Barry Island ( again ) . |
8 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
9 | Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins , in particular lead . |
10 | During the post-war period they have shown a quite stable distribution although in the 1970s the process of growing concentration in selected retirement areas , noticed in the 1960s , appeared to end . |
11 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
12 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
13 | In the 1970s the search for a room temperature superconductor led chemists to look at one-dimensional organic conductors and semiconductors . |
14 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
15 | Bede describes how in the 670s the South Saxons were saved ‘ from a cruel and horrible extinction ’ as a result of their conversion to Christianity by Wilfrid : ‘ … for no rain had fallen in the province for three years prior to his arrival , and a terrible famine had ensued which reduced many to an awful death ’ ( HE IV 13 ) . |
16 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
17 | In the 1630s the tobacco boom showed signs of having reached its peak . |
18 | Also in the 1900s the infant mortality rate began to fall with the result that some poorer families faced the cost of raising more children until they were old enough to work . |
19 | In the 1820s the vestry at Christchurch , Spitalfields , had to issue general instructions against the use of the single case in their vaults , advocating the triple case in all instances . |
20 | In the 1960s the tactic of improvement switched from individual properties to whole areas ( Thomas , 1986 ) . |
21 | In the 1960s the breed was exported to Canada and is thriving at altitudes of 1,400m on the eastern slopes of the Rockies with bitter winter temperatures and no more shelter than brush . |
22 | After a fire in the 1960s the pub was sympathetically restored ; however , in 1990 it was proposed to remove the central bar , which divides the Saloon and Public bars . |
23 | In the 1960s the emphasis was on labour-intensive industries such as textiles and consumer electronics to employ the thousands of workers who had been left redundant by the withdrawal of the British . |
24 | Early in the 1960s the decision was made to concentrate a number of intensive ecological studies based at Bangor , North Wales , on a single , small ( 1 ha ) field of permanent grassland , part of the College Farm at Henfaes , Aber , near Bangor . |
25 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
26 | But in the 1960s the gate control theory of pain showed that pain provoking messages proceeding toward the head were the result of interactions between inhibitory and excitatory effects from the periphery which mixed in spinal mechanism . |
27 | In the 1960s the government sought to reduce the animist religious confusion in the nation — and centralize its own authority by abolishing the practice of all but five officially sanctioned religions . |
28 | And in the 1960s the Government gave a tax holiday , which lasted 14 years , to the struggling automobile industry . |
29 | In the 1960s the opening of the airport opened Madeira to a wider foreign market and to the Portuguese middle class . |
30 | We were told that in the 1960s the revenue sought to tax such employees on that benefit on the basis of the average cost to the airline of providing a seat , not merely on the marginal cost . |