Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 4 | In recent years , further restoration has been carried out and , though the work is obviously of the nineteenth and twentieth century , a Medieval spirit has been retained . |
| 5 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 6 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only in the nineteenth century did some of them find their way into the new museums . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | One of these was four metres high , the tallest bird that ever lived , and was finally killed off ( tragically ) only in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Serious scientific attempts to explain the major structural and relief features of the Earth began only in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Many documents , especially from the nineteenth century , contain redundant words which only serve to confuse . |
| 23 | This is an important aspect of the process I have called his working his way backwards into the Nineteenth Century . |
| 24 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 25 | It showed itself to have a horror of socialism already in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Scotland has steadily declined throughout ; Northern Ireland fell steeply in the nineteenth century since when it has been relatively stable . |
| 27 | Poverty and restricted opportunities for employment as a result of under-development are usually regarded as so-called ‘ push ’ factors in the explanation of patterns of emigration from less developed countries , and in the case of the Indian sub-continent and the Caribbean Islands have operated powerfully throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in compelling sections of their populations to find work abroad , very often servicing the economic and military needs of the British Empire . |
| 28 | She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |