Example sentences of "[adv prt] in 1983 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour may decide — as it did when Mr Michael Foot stood down in 1983 — to skip a generation and opt for one of the new breed of classless , ‘ voter-friendly ’ politicians who do not carry the baggage of the party 's failures in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 2 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 3 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 4 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 5 | Finally , after going full circle , AIB finished up in 1983 in the Department of Transport which seems to me to be where it should have remained all the time . |
| 6 | The Community Interpreter Project was set up in 1983 to develop and pilot a practical model which would enable people to communicate effectively within the context of the main public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 7 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 8 | Most disliked are dangerous chemicals , whether brought in openly or like the 41 barrels of dioxin waste , a legacy of the 1976 explosion at Hoffmann-La Roche 's Seveso plant , that turned up in 1983 in a Paris abattoir having passed through umpteen subcontractors on the way . |
| 9 | State owned funds — those which manage the Business Expansion Scheme ( Set up in 1983 to encourage investment by private investors in unquoted companies , through tax relief at their marginal rate up to £40,000 in a year ) and the Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies , set up to fund growth in their particular areas . |
| 10 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 11 | 12.37 am , Plymouth Devonport : David Owen held the seat for Labour until defecting to the SDP in 1981 and he held on in 1983 and 1987 . |
| 12 | When ‘ Kicker Conspiracy ’ came out in 1983 no bugger wanted to know about soccer songs . |
| 13 | Back in 1983 many economists were sceptical about the wage accord negotiated by the Labor government with the unions . |
| 14 | Ray saw his first one ( a Showa ) in Japan , back in 1983 — the result of a cross between a Koi and a fantail goldfish by breeder Mr Yoshida . |
| 15 | Originally released by Commodore themselves on cartridge back in 1983 ! ( good year for music ) When re-released on tape and disk five years later by CRL , it was still good enough to earn 86% . |
| 16 | It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid . |
| 17 | Back in 1983 , one exploit that can with reasonable certainty be attributed to Iraq was the attack in July on Iran 's small Nowruz offshore oilfield , causing a large crude-oil slick and heightened environmental concern around the Gulf . |
| 18 | The company 's exports have grown steadily since the early 1950s and , as it was then , won a Queen 's Award back in 1983 . |
| 19 | " Back in 1983 Group Four was defined by CCITT , " he reveals . |
| 20 | Perhaps the 33-year-old was trying to relive those days back in 1983 when he was the youngest in the House . |
| 21 | He 's got no money to spend , and when he turned a losing team around in 1983 he had four or five exceptional and emerging players in his squad . |