Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast number of self-instituted independent organizations in the nineteenth century , and into the twentieth century , can in many cases be directly related to two related factors : the development of the teaching academy , with its tendency to prescribe rules ; and the greatly increased importance of the exhibition , within the market conditions which had succeeded patronage . |
| 2 | When examining Barbarossa as a legendary character , this image appears again , from a traditional source collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 4 | There is a concern to increase the independence of members and to devise institutional relationships to facilitate a balance of powers that would give the Commons a more effective checking , choosing , and legislating role of the kind it enjoyed prior to the extension of the franchise and the organising implications of political parties in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 6 | The writer , Christopher Stell , has pointed out that of some 600 ‘ architects ’ whose buildings were described in the Congregational Union 's Year Books in the nineteenth century , ‘ very few ’ are credited with having built more than one or two . |
| 7 | A second would be the spread of printed music into bourgeois homes in the nineteenth century ; not surprisingly , the musical language drew heavily on existing notated styles — opera and domestic song . |
| 8 | European stations showed signs of developing such communities in the nineteenth century , but they were usually swept away . |
| 9 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Visitors in the nineteenth century found its columned halls crowded with mean hovels , the slums of Luxor . |
| 11 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 12 | While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies . |
| 13 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 14 | Inset below Pulled and pushed tourists made the rather undignified scramble up the pyramids in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | For most of the period , from the first conquests in the fourteenth century until the rise of the South Slav nationalist movements in the nineteenth century , the empire was either preparing for a war against its Christian neighbours , fighting a war or recovering from a war . |
| 16 | One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate . |
| 17 | Children playing in fen churchyards in the nineteenth century were able to reach down and touch the coffins exposed by the wasted peat . |
| 18 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 19 | Erm , and not only do they have the red flag , there is the , erm , the Internationale for the the Communist Movement as well , and that apparently erm , was written by French workers in the nineteenth century , and it was used in Russia until nineteen forty-four . |
| 20 | The country stations also enjoyed a great range of styles , but they escaped the process of repeated renewal which overwhelmed so many large city and town stations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 21 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 22 | Passing through a number of English collections in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , it was taken to a British-owned Italian villa in the mid-1930s . |
| 23 | Although the sciences had begun to develop in English universities in the nineteenth century ( following Scottish innovations ) , it is probably fair to say that the dominant culture of the universities was founded on the humanities up to and even a little beyond the Second World War . |
| 24 | Chinese governments in the nineteenth century faced a succession of major rebellions , and the defeat by Japan in 1895 hastened the demise of the Qing dynasty . |
| 25 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 26 | For example : ( 1 ) a school in Liverpool may feel their local history to be linked to part of the world of work on American cotton plantations ; ( 2 ) a school in rural Wales may wish to exploit connections of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia ; ( 3 ) a school in Lancashire may feel it essential to include a study of textiles in the nineteenth century as an in-depth study in a Victorian core unit . |
| 27 | The general consensus of opinion among sociologists is that , compared with the state of affairs in the nineteenth century , the modern marriage relationship is happier more egalitarian , more important , and therefore certainly more stressful . |
| 28 | Many of the early writers in the nineteenth century were not concerned with separating the two disciplines , and marking out the one from the other , but with showing their similarities . |
| 29 | Thomas Carlisle was er one of the writers in the nineteenth century who was very keen on this business of being strong and silent and a productive worker and a and a competent breadwinner and he advocated this as the best way of being a man . |
| 30 | However , many pieces are unworthy and ungrammatical , and are likely to join the dusty piles of discarded music in vestry cupboards , produced in great quantities in the nineteenth century because of the relative ease of finding publishers . |