Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the 1930s " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first attitude has been witnessed in the 1930s and during our more recent experience of high unemployment . |
| 2 | The aim of creating a sense of prime loyalty among members of the colony , which was small enough for them to know each other , did not constitute any kind of a threat to central authorities in 1922 , but it would not have been tolerated in the 1930s , when family members were encouraged to spy on one another in the state interest . |
| 3 | Those who contemplated a new war thought about it in much the same way as a later generation thought about nuclear war : most of Peter Watkin 's film The War Game could have been made in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 5 | Unlike previous declines , it continued without interruption for sixty years , eventually embracing all sections of the population , until a completely new pattern of low fertility had been established by the 1930s , essentially that which we have today . |
| 6 | The circulation of native-language newspapers , for instance , was increasing more rapidly than that of Russian-language newspapers in Central Asia ; the local languages were being purged of the Russian loan words that had been imported during the 1930s and 1940s ; and the indigenous intelligentsia was showing little sign of relinquishing its national self-consciousness . |
| 7 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 8 | The problems which derive from the decline in the industrial structure which gave rise to the North East as an industrial region have been recognized since the 1930s , and until the coming to power of the present government the same core strategy informed attempts to resolve them . |