Example sentences of "[adj] from [art] [adj] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 2 | The English Poor Laws , first effective from the late 16th century and radically revised in 1834 , had always proved a headache to those who administered them . |
| 3 | He emerged intact from a chastening first championship appearance in a Martlet sweater , taking the only Hampshire wicket to fall on a gruelling opening day and bowling more overs than anyone all told . |
| 4 | It is curious that despite frequent allusion to man-environment relations by geographers , they largely chose to ignore the signposts that were evident from the mid nineteenth century onwards and physical geography proceeded largely in isolation from the hand of man . |
| 5 | This is why , though the ideas were becoming common from the late eighteenth century , effective alternative and oppositional formations became common only in the second half of the nineteenth century and increased markedly towards the end of the century . |