Example sentences of "in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Records of Catholics in the Home Counties in the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries are held , and there are leaflets , scrap-books and correspondence . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century to say that a picture was poetic was a common term of praise . |
| 4 | Impressionism is the most familiar group with an artistic programme in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Part of the critic 's task in the nineteenth century , as now , was to interpret art for the lay public ; but what , artists asked themselves , if we interpreted our own work ? from such a thought sprang statements of artistic aims and manifestos , some using the new device of naming a group with a progressive title , such as futurism . |
| 6 | Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own . |
| 7 | There are amusing archaeological records in the nineteenth century of the inability of even trained artists to record what they saw ; Assyrian figure sculptures , for example , were recorded as having unmistakably classical Greek features by an artist in the employ of the archaeologist Sir Henry Layard . |
| 8 | This was despite the fact that the reform of Irish catholicism in the nineteenth century sprang mainly from urban areas . |
| 9 | It showed itself to have a horror of socialism already in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |
| 11 | Several aspects of catholicism became particularly important in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement . |
| 13 | The sweep of the cutting edge and the shape is usually defined by a number , which was standardised in Britain in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 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 | In the nineteenth century , the Goose and Burial Clubs were the forerunner of the social security system and the welfare state — the goose was for Christmas , the burial speaks for itself . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth century the actress Sarah Bernhardt , ‘ attracted by the Absolute , ’ as one guidebook puts it , built a chateau high on the cliff near its northernmost end , the Pointe des Poulains ( Foals ' Point ) , where the offshore rocks are said to resemble young horses galloping in the swaying navy-blue sea . |
| 18 | Only in the nineteenth century did some of them find their way into the new museums . |
| 19 | We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The studies of Ernst Engel in the nineteenth century , led to the conclusion that after income has risen beyond a certain level , there is a decrease in the percentage of total income that is spent on food . |
| 21 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |
| 22 | The first parliamentary Acts concerning housing in the nineteenth century were Public Health Acts , which laid down requirements as regards sanitation and public safety . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Second , simply in what Scruton classifies as perversions — masturbation , bestiality , necrophilia , paedophilia , sado-masochism , homosexuality , incest , fetishism — he shows himself to have accepted uncritically the sexological/Freudian classification of perversions as developed in the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 25 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 26 | Articulate middle-class women in the nineteenth century were certainly more concerned with gaining increased autonomy and control — over children and property — within marriage , than with access to divorce . |
| 27 | Cash crops were exported from early in the nineteenth century , such as ground-nuts from the Gambia in the 1830s , and oil palm and rubber from Ghana from the 1870s and 1890s respectively . |
| 28 | Capitalist activity in the nineteenth century , for the reasons discussed above , was mainly associated with new types of activity , such as cocoa production or mineral mining , whether these were in the hands of European or African entrepreneurs . |
| 29 | This point of view was of course almost universally accepted in the nineteenth century , and is repeated endlessly . |
| 30 | This idea was very widespread in the nineteenth century for a variety of reasons . |