Example sentences of "[verb] in the 1930s " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |
| 2 | For the rest , the best advice for economic policy-makers is to recall two principles of sound central banking — one forgotten in the 1930s and the other in the 1970s . |
| 3 | Although laissez-faire was by no means discarded in the 1930s and the dead hand of economic orthodoxy , particularly in fiscal matters remained strong , there were signs of change in the stance of government in some areas . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such losses of services occurred in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 6 | In the final analysis the economic policies pursued in the 1930s , and already outlined in Chapter 1 , were those dictated by a massive Conservative parliamentary majority . |
| 7 | In studying this period writers have tended to use ‘ government ’ to refer to elected party or civilian cabinets , whose position is eroded in the 1930s as the state became even more totalitarian . |
| 8 | There was no question of simply negotiating a deal with one American company , as producers had done in the 1930s , and then just hoping for the best . |
| 9 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 10 | Some were , of course , ephemeral , including books and articles written in the 1930s when he lived by his pen . |
| 11 | A book about voodoo in Haiti written in the 1930s might seem an unlikely candidate for an NI Classic — especially since it has just gone out of print . |
| 12 | Grouped by region , date and school , the casts were displayed in the palais du Trocadero built for the 1878 Exposition Universelle and expanded in the 1930s as part of a constantly evolving display . |
| 13 | The house was built in the 1930s by Eliška Junkova , a celebrated female racing driver with a love of Bugatti motorcars . |
| 14 | During the past ten to 15 years a few new bungalows have been built , and with the eight council houses built in the 1930s , there is a pleasing variety of architectural styles . |
| 15 | Built in the 1930s this is still well supported and is used practically every day . |
| 16 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 17 | The house was built in the 1930s and faces south with glorious views of Dartmoor , shared by all the principal bedrooms . |
| 18 | Quite ordinary buildings — a Kirin beer hall built in the 1930s , for example — or a small stand of camphor trees , survived at a distance of only 700 metres from the epicentre . |
| 19 | Some houses , particularly those built in the 1930s and before , still have a predominantly lead system . |
| 20 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 21 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
| 22 | His break into showbusiness came in the 1930s when he joined a novelty act called Joe Boganni and the Crazy College Boys . |
| 23 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
| 24 | Return to Maynard Keynes , writing in the 1930s : |
| 25 | According to Sir Julian Huxley , writing in the 1930s , the huge antlers of large species of deer , which are certainly among their most conspicuous assets and absorb a great deal of energy as they grow , may be non-adaptive features ; and Richard Lewontin , from Harvard University , recently applied Huxley 's arguments to other features of other animals , including tooth size in Old World monkeys , and brain size in great apes . |
| 26 | But it should be remembered that such hesitation was an endemic feature of British politics during the inter-war years and was even exhibited in the 1930s when fascism , that other major problem of the age , threatened to consume Britain and Europe . |
| 27 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
| 28 | Another kind of insight to be added to this model can be gained from other people 's responses to the same , or similar places Dame Laura Knight RA , in her autobiography The Magic of a Line gives an insight into how the Malverns were seen in the 1930s . |
| 29 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
| 30 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |