Example sentences of "in the [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 9 | In the 1970s it was also the biggest in Europe with a population of 70,000 . |
| 10 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 18 | In the mundane it is impossible to eliminate the ego , but in the transcendent all is possible . |
| 19 | In the 1960s it was extended in front using old weathered stone . |
| 20 | In the 1960s it was modified to make the House of Czech Children for the Pioneers . |
| 21 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
| 22 | In the 1960s it was totally re-built , and at that time no expense was spared . |
| 23 | Self-expression , of course , is a most important element in child development , but often in the 1960s it was espoused with pseudo-religious fervour . |
| 24 | In the 1960s it was also argued that government departments dealing with domestic questions should be decentralized so that civil servants who had a powerful voice in matters of economic planning could be kept in touch with regional and local interests . |
| 25 | When process investigations began to increase in the 1960s it was not realized exactly how difficult they would prove to be . |
| 26 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
| 27 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 28 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 29 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 30 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |