Example sentences of "in the [adj] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s there were only two types of potential replacement DMU being considered by BR 's passenger marketing people and the engineers . |
| 2 | In Britain , West Germany , and Scandinavia in the 1970s there was a steady reduction in working-class support for parties of the left . |
| 3 | When the Marxist Left and the radical Right emerged in the 1970s there was one point on which they were agreed : that many of the seeds of decline were planted in the immediate post-war years . |
| 4 | In the 1970s there were already some moves in this direction , reflected in the formation of regional agencies , such as water authorities and health authorities ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , Ch. 7 ) . |
| 5 | In the 1970s there was a renewed interest in site-related folklore . |
| 6 | Indeed research from the National Child Development Study clearly identifies public matters where the state could intervene to prevent harm to children : In the 1970s there was concern about the ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) and the war against poverty ( Jordan , 1974 ) . |
| 7 | To obtain true security in Europe , NATO still wanted to see a reduction of Russia 's conventional strength , which remained overwhelming , and as in the 1970s there was some concern that Moscow and Washington could together decide the fate of Europe without European representation . |
| 8 | In the 1970s there were developments that integrated compliance and value for money auditing . |
| 9 | However although fragmentation was a feature evident in the 1960s , in the 1970s there were at least two trends that tended to foster integration : namely the use of common techniques and a more realist approach . |
| 10 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 11 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 12 | In the 1800s there were two large ash trees growing inside the chancel , these were cut down in 1892 but the stumps are still clearly visible . |
| 13 | From its familiar title it indicates something like a ‘ school ’ , centred on the ideas of one writer , and this is not unreasonable , since in the 1790s there were conscious ‘ Godwinians ’ and Godwin 's best known work , Political Justice , was widely and directly influential . |
| 14 | In the Mesozoic there was another great radiation of the crinoids , the typical forms having flexible arms , and it is crinoids of this kind that survive today . |
| 15 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 16 | In the 1960s there was felt to be a vast gap not only between those primary schools where the teaching was ‘ traditional ’ and those where it was ‘ advanced ’ or ‘ child-centred ’ , but also between primary and secondary schools . |
| 17 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 18 | Soon after the discovery of the ‘ battered baby syndrome ’ in the 1960s there seemed considerable optimism amongst health and welfare professionals that such efforts would be effective . |
| 19 | Indeed , in the 1960s there was a surge of merger activity which peaked over 1967/9 . |
| 20 | However , in the 1960s there was a major revision of the provisions for plan making in order to meet alleged deficiencies of the 1947 system which had emerged : slowness , alienation of the public , a focus on land use detail rather than broad strategy , and an increasing difficulty in using two-dimensional land use maps to represent three-dimensional , multi-use development proposals . |
| 21 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 22 | He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts . |
| 23 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 24 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 25 | And in the SenFed there were people and governments willing to pay fortunes for the promise of near-perfect security . |
| 26 | In the 1990s there is no room for the hard-won concessions of the 1970s — sabbaticals , fixed newspaper allowances and four-day weeks — which recognise the problems of stressful , anti-social hours . |
| 27 | In the USA in the 1990s there appears to be a wide recognition of the need to maintain the political system and these concerns are superseding previous motivations for partnerships . |
| 28 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 29 | In the 1990s there will be a concerted move by professional bodies such as the British Association for Counselling and the British Psychological Society to regulate counselling and ensure that those who practise are both competent and qualified to do so . |
| 30 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |