Example sentences of "[adv] in the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thousands of separate natural minerals which fit this definition have been described , and , especially in the nineteenth century , scientists spent decades of their lives in searching out new ones . |
| 2 | As a consequence of this concept of an historical construction of sexuality , a third point of contact lies in the rejection , both by the interactionists and Foucault , of the notion that the history of sexuality — especially in the nineteenth century — can fruitfully be seen in terms of ‘ repression ’ . |
| 3 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 4 | This was more so in the nineteenth century as Nonconformity grew stronger and more involved in the mainstream of national life , but it had always been the case . |
| 5 | Only in the nineteenth century did some of them find their way into the new museums . |
| 6 | Only in the nineteenth century did excavations reveal a major Roman temple to Mercury at Magdalensberg , and the youth was almost certainly the cult statue . |
| 7 | One of these was four metres high , the tallest bird that ever lived , and was finally killed off ( tragically ) only in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | ( Nor , it may be added , was it only in the nineteenth century that this stratagem was adopted : it has figured in a good deal of more recent writing as well . |
| 9 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 10 | These materials had not always been associated ; it was only in the nineteenth century that iron smelting came to the coalfields because of technological and economic convenience . |
| 11 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 12 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 13 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 14 | Serious scientific attempts to explain the major structural and relief features of the Earth began only in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable . |
| 16 | The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility . |
| 17 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 18 | It showed itself to have a horror of socialism already in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 21 | Scotland has steadily declined throughout ; Northern Ireland fell steeply in the nineteenth century since when it has been relatively stable . |
| 22 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 23 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |
| 24 | Early in the nineteenth century additional judges , called Vice-Chancellors , were appointed — first one , later three ; and a Court of Appeal in Chancery , intermediate between the Vice-Chancellors and the House of Lords , was established in 1851 . |
| 25 | Early in the nineteenth century , the tendencies , or ‘ tropisms ’ , of plants to grow towards light and against gravity had been described . |
| 26 | This high moorland village is an industrial settlement developed early in the nineteenth century to house lead-miners and their families employed by the Blackett family , which had been exploiting the deposits since 1729 . |
| 27 | The modern dock system at Bristol was largely the work of William Jessop early in the nineteenth century , with later alteration and expansion by Brunel ( q.v . ) . |
| 28 | The canal superseded the Kennet Navigation early in the nineteenth century , linking it with the River Avon at Bath , so that Somerset coal could be brought east as far as Reading by water . |
| 29 | Fairburn had a busy quarrying industry at one time , and to provide transportation of the stone from the quarries to the River Aire a tramway was constructed early in the nineteenth century to link up with a short section of canal to the river . |
| 30 | Four miles west of Bovey Tracey , on the east side of Dartmoor , are the abandoned granite quarries of Haytor , opened early in the nineteenth century by George Templer . |