Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 2 | In the 1970s a study of dolphin and porpoise tissues , from several locations throughout the Pacific , demonstrated that coastal dolphins and porpoises are the most susceptible to accumulating toxic waste , especially those whose habitat is close to industrial discharges or runoff of agricultural chemicals . |
| 3 | In the 1970s a worldwide seminar on the use of vibration was held in Japan . |
| 4 | In the 1970s a prisoner from one of the labour camps had assembled a group of volunteers , including experts on dowsing , to investigate what he claimed to have located — Ivan the Terrible 's library . |
| 5 | In the 1970s a small number of feminist critics accused most of these influential and widely cited texts of sexism , ( targets included A. Campbell et al , The American Voter ; G. Almond and S. Verba , The Civic Culture ; R. Lane , Political Life ; R. A. Dahl , Who Governs ? ) . |
| 6 | In the 1970s a series of Danish studies compared the children and step-children of alcoholic fathers . |
| 7 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 8 | In the 1970s a temporary oil facility was established through which oil exporters made finance available , via the Fund , to assist the balance of payments problems caused by the sudden rise in the price of oil . |
| 9 | In the USA in the 1970s a middle-class child raised through four years at college cost $74,000 and $145,000 if the wife 's opportunity costs were included as well ( Espenshade 1980 ) . |
| 10 | In the 1970s a series of controlled trials compared the drug with other neuroleptics , and whereas no other drug has ever been shown to be more effective than chlorpromazine ( Largactil ) , clozapine was found to be so in six out of thirteen studies . |
| 11 | Bears became extinct in the Austrian Alps over a hundred years , but in the 1970s a male bear from Yugoslavia wandered across the border to take up residence in the southeast province of Styria . |
| 12 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 13 | IN THE 1960s a mystique surrounded hallucinogenic drugs like LSD because they seemed to enable users to alter their perceptions of reality , and explore their ‘ inner minds ’ . |
| 14 | In many schools in the 1960s a revulsion against decontextualised exercises brought about a complete abandonment of the teaching of grammar . |
| 15 | For instance , in the 1960s a common market of five Central American countries sheltered over-priced local goods behind high tariffs , putting an international stamp on import substitution . |
| 16 | In the 1960s a series of papers suggested that dementia sufferers who were " misplaced " in the wrong type of facility might have a poorer outcome . |
| 17 | Against this background there emerged in the 1620s a new series of troubles in this ‘ quiet commonwealth ’ , the religious and social disagreements which culminated in the Civil Wars of the 1640s . |
| 18 | I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region . |
| 19 | A later generation was to see Cistercians sent out as missionaries , especially among the heretics of the Languedoc ; and the wandering preacher — a very familiar figure in the twelfth century — became in the thirteenth a Franciscan or a Dominican friar . |
| 20 | In the sixties a mechanical piano was added to the furniture of the Empress 's drawing room , the famous Salon Chinois in which was displayed a portion of the loot which the French army had acquired when the Summer Palace at Peking had been sacked . |
| 21 | The undue power of committee chairmen in relation to their colleagues was more of a problem in the House than in the Senate , but in the latter a system of legislative norms or folkways made possible dominance of the proceedings by leading members of the Senate inner club or establishment . |
| 22 | Thus it has been suggested that a key difference between invertebrate and vertebrate brains is that in the former a great deal of power and responsibility could be invested in a single cell or even synapse which in the vertebrate nervous system would be more widely distributed . |
| 23 | IN THE '90s a great many of the factors which affect us all in business will be so different that new management responses will be required , and I have sought to outline some of these elements in my latest book . |
| 24 | Then there was what might be-called " fire-insurance Jacobitism " : in the 1690s a number of leading politicians — amongst them Tories such as Marlborough and Godolphin and Whigs such as Shrewsbury and Edward Russell — thought it wise to maintain some contact with the exiled Stuarts so that their own political security would be guaranteed should there be another Stuart restoration . |
| 25 | In one half lived the miner Charles Decrucq and his family , and in the other a fellow evangelist of whom nothing is known , except that his surname was Frank . |
| 26 | He came in from the scullery with the coal bucket in one hand and in the other a fat metal cylinder . |
| 27 | In one of his hands chamois gloves were loosely bouqueted with the silver head of a cane ; in the other a thick slab-sided cheroot , topped by an inch and a half of whitened ash , protruded from his knuckles . |
| 28 | In one hand she held a recorder , in the other a small crimson fluebrush for it . |
| 29 | In the first a company or industry discerns the need for a new product or product range , develops markets and sells to the widest possible market . |
| 30 | In the first a female employee received a potentially fatal electric shock of perhaps five and a half thousand volts while testing ovens for high voltage leakage . |