Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] century [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But between the middle of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth , when it was supplanted by Orthez , Morlaas was the capital of Béarn . |
| 2 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 3 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 4 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 5 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 6 | For many years Eikon Basilike remained discredited , and it was only in the middle of the twentieth century that the researches of F. F. Madan finally proved that the book was in fact based on papers written by the King in captivity , copies of which fell into Gauden 's hands ; and that Gauden had sent the draft of the book to the King and received his comments and corrections before it was published . |
| 7 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 8 | The Second Diaspora was more traumatic for the Jews of the twentieth century than the one which scattered their forebears 2000 years previously . |
| 9 | In this respect no figure is more characteristic of the twentieth century than the highly influential economist John Maynard Keynes . |
| 10 | This rise is dramatic , as is illustrated in figure 6.6 , which shows a steep rise in this age-group in the first half of the twentieth century and a levelling out at about 15 per cent from the 1980s well into the next century . |
| 11 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 12 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 13 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |
| 14 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 15 | The scene was more reminiscent of the nineteenth century than the twenty-first . |
| 16 | Inside , the roof is of the nineteenth century but the fresco painting on the walls is one of the oldest decorative schemes in Germany , dating from c. 1000 . |
| 17 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century , the application of quantitative methods of science was extended to psychology and so to education . |
| 18 | Their current exhibition , somewhat optimistically titled ‘ The Golden Age of Danish Art ’ ( most of the pictures on show date from the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early years of this one ) includes around thirty artists , with all of the above . |
| 19 | One possible interpretation is that , since they are talking about different historical periods , the nature of family relationships in Lancashire had actually changed between the middle of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth ( Lewis , 1984 , p. 54 ) . |
| 20 | And therefore it was wrong because the argument goes that liberalism and nationalism are the great triumphant er ideologies of the nineteenth century and the Vienna settlement 's not only wrong , but it was historically erm in a sense doomed because it was trying to oppose the growing erm unstoppable er ideologies of er erm of er of Europe . |
| 21 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 22 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 23 | To the followers of the ‘ classical economists ’ , who argued that the industrialized state would make the greatest possible contribution to public welfare if competition were to remain unshackled , the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the present day has been marked by increasing government interference with the economy . |
| 24 | As a tort , however , it was little developed until the second half of the nineteenth century and the law remained obscure until the decision of the House of Lords in Crofter Hand-Woven Harris Tweed Co . |
| 25 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 26 | Arguably , the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century witnessed an increase in the power of medical men within medical institutions , and a rise in their social and professional status . |
| 27 | In Protogeometric an occasional animal is seen , haphazardly placed , but it is first in Attic Geometric of the eighth century that a figure-style is incorporated in the decorative scheme . |
| 28 | [ It was in the second half of the sixth century that the primitive tragedy practised by the Dionysiac worshippers developed into true drama , and , in the same period , ] the cult was accepted as a public cult in Athens . |
| 29 | Incidentally , it was not until the end of the fifteenth century that the sand-glass was depicted as the attribute of Father Time . |
| 30 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |