Example sentences of "[verb] in the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 2 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 3 | Eighteenth-century products though they were , Beethoven 's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth . |
| 4 | Like Eliot , Dawson emphasized the ‘ two Englands ’ created in the nineteenth century — ‘ the England of the fields and the England of the factories ’ — and wished to build on a common ‘ English tradition ’ which with some sort of religious sanction would take people Beyond Politics . |
| 5 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 6 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 7 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 8 | Much of the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and both Cracow churches have lost some of their Medieval character . |
| 9 | The cathedral was built between 1130 and 1290 but , due to several fires and other hazards , suffered damage and was extensively restored and rebuilt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 10 | As the image of home became more sentimentalised in the nineteenth century , one 's entry into the world of affairs appeared more threatening and the promptings of prudence suggested deferred gratification . |
| 11 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 12 | The enormous Spanish nobility , luxuriant with the growth of centuries , absorbed in the nineteenth century still larger additions of yet newer nobles drawn from the army , banking and politics . |
| 13 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 14 | But Townsend gave his side a deserved lead in the 19th minute The Republic of Ireland midfielder was perfectly positioned in the nineteenth minute when Graeme Le Saux touched back a crossfield ball from Fleck for his skipper to drive home a low shot . |
| 15 | This power is well described in a poem to the god Amun-Re , written in the Nineteenth Dynasty : " Of mysterious form and gleaming shape , the wondrous god with many forms . |
| 16 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 17 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 18 | This point of view was of course almost universally accepted in the nineteenth century , and is repeated endlessly . |
| 19 | Timber staithes remain at this port on the River Tyne , some of the last such structures built in the nineteenth century as wharves for unloading coal from the railway on to waiting ships . |
| 20 | The chief architect of the subsequent dock system built in the nineteenth century was Jesse Hartley , and Albert Dock is his greatest monument . |
| 21 | East of Manningtree on the Stour estuary , this village possesses a fine range of maltings built in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Around Stoney Street ( south-east of city centre near St Mary 's Church ) is a commercial complex built in the nineteenth century , occupying a considerable part of the medieval town 's former area , and now known as the Lace Market . |
| 23 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 24 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 25 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 26 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 27 | Of these seven places , two have completely disappeared — Nether Adber now has only two houses , built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , and Mudford Terry has none . |
| 28 | Slowly we discovered this amazing cliff garden built in the nineteenth century in the style of marie antoinette at Waddesdon . |
| 29 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | other resort towns came in the nineteenth century . |