Example sentences of "in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 2 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 3 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 4 | In the 1970s they were eagerly offered loans by Western banks suddenly awash with oil riches ; in the 1980s the debt collectors have come knocking . |
| 5 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 6 | Moreover as inflation began to rise in the 1970s it made no sense to wait before buying ; the price would inevitably be higher if you did so . |
| 7 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 8 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 9 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
| 10 | In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible . |
| 11 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 12 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 13 | In the 1970s it was also the biggest in Europe with a population of 70,000 . |
| 14 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 15 | Other problems of intercontinental telephone systems ' compatibility held the fax system back as well : in the 1970s it was still illegal to transmit fax signals overseas from the US via the public telephone system . |
| 16 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 17 | In the 1970s he bet his father he could open a vineyard in Utah , a state where drink and the devil are considered kissin' cousins . |
| 18 | As a teenager , Goldberg was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler in the 1920s ; in the 1970s he was still in fine form , and his recordings should surely have been re-released on this occasion . |
| 19 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 20 | In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons . |
| 21 | Thus the silk industry of Valencia , frequently noted by travellers as one of the most promising features of the economy , apart from a period of prosperity between 1835 and 1852 , remained relatively stagnant throughout the nineteenth century ; in the late eighteenth century a technically advanced industry , in the nineteenth it could not keep pace with Lyons . |
| 22 | This later led to more troubles than they could have expected , but in the 1630s they seemed to be effectively independent . |
| 23 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 24 | In the 1790s he was commissioned to build a conservatory for the Prince of Wales , which marked the beginning of a renowned Royal patronage culminating in the building of Regent 's Park and the Brighton Pavilion . |
| 25 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 26 | Actually it started to rain and when we had just got in the then we had to get out again . |
| 27 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 28 | Cos they used t what they used to do in the small boat , they used to coil so much in the then they 'd row to the quay and then the they 'd run ashore hid past the line and pull a river and put the bollard for 'em and then cos they 'd turn round they might give us a quid for a drink you see |
| 29 | It was true that in the 1880s youth work had meant philanthropy and religion , whereas in the 1900s it was felt to be the responsibility of local education authorities , juvenile employment committees , after-care committees and part-time day continuation classes in liberal and vocational studies . |
| 30 | Thus a detailed examination of Birmingham families in the early 1880s found that those earning 27/6d paid 6/ rent ( 23.7 per cent of their income ) , while in London in the 1900s it was not uncommon to pay 8/ out of 24/ ( 33 per cent ) for two rooms . |