Example sentences of "until [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Until the nineteenth century , for example , bottlenose dolphins occurred in all the major estuaries in Britain , including the Thames and the Humber . |
| 3 | A process essentially the same as this was used for brass-making in Europe until the nineteenth century , when it became more economical to alloy metallic zinc directly with copper . |
| 4 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Travel for pleasure was almost unheard of until the nineteenth century when Robert Louis Stevenson wrote , ‘ For my part , I travel not to go anywhere , but to go . |
| 8 | Until the nineteenth century , Marco Polo 's account of his travels in Asia and China , which he dictated between 1296 and 1298 , was virtually the only source of information about the Far East . |
| 9 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 10 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 11 | It was not until the nineteenth century and the work of Pierre Janet that anyone even began to consider the subject of regression . |
| 12 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |
| 13 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 14 | With Gutenberg came the fifteenth-century invention of printing and there , so far as educational technology was concerned , innovation stayed until the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |
| 16 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 17 | The Russians were pushed back northwards to the Stanovoi mountains , where the frontier fixed in 1689 by the Treaty of Nerchinsk was recognized until the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The decline of the Hellenistic world left Alexandria isolated , and it did not again become a great cosmopolitan city until the nineteenth century when its resurrection was built on the profits of cotton . |
| 19 | The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Legal history appears to record a silence on the matter until the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Until the mid-seventeenth century the essential distinction ( oversimplifying somewhat ) was that between ambassadors , either ordinary ones resident for some length of time or extraordinary ones sent for some special and limited purpose , and lesser diplomatic representatives referred to by a variety of different titles — resident , minister , agent , etc . |
| 23 | The entrance to the School from Buxton Road had to be closed until the 19th while an unexploded bomb in Corbar Road was dealt with . |
| 24 | It was probably Ship Street originally — the ship being the one that ‘ sailed ’ there until the 19th century , The Royal George public house ! |
| 25 | Though always an important crossing place , the village remained relatively small until the 19th century , when the population rose from 170 in 1801 to 417 in 1861 . |
| 26 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 27 | His approach to teaching was irrevocably pragmatic , reminiscent rather of that tradition of apprenticeship , which had dominated art until the 19th century , rather than of the semi-academicised inculcation of self-expression , which had prevailed ever since . |
| 28 | Halling until the 19th century was fairly solidly conformist — it was not until the coming of the cement industry that other denominations such as Wesleyan and Baptist found their way here . |
| 29 | It was n't until the mid-16th century that corks began to appear again . |
| 30 | That was until the 89th minute when yet another set-piece produced the third goal . |