Example sentences of "to the [adj] nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resemblance here is to the great nineteenth century Reviews , the Edinburgh , the Quarterly , the Westminster , and others , which did include some scientific works among their criticism but were chiefly concerned with literature , history and politics . |
| 2 | The first of these , the Church of the Virgin Gorgeopekos ( also called S. Eleutherios or the Little Metropole Cathedral due to its proximity to the great nineteenth century Metropolitan Cathedral ) is the most interesting . |
| 3 | Lord Blake 's now revised 1968 Ford Lectures provide an introduction to the late nineteenth and twentieth century party , but their aim was to provide a sketch , not a comprehensive study . |
| 4 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |
| 5 | But , apart from such celebrated examples , the private press movement really belongs to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries , as the following selection of some of the best-known will show . |
| 6 | Many of the wagons , dating back to the late nineteenth century , were requisitioned during the First World War and purchased , from R.N.A.D. Bandeath on its closure , by the S.R.P.S. |
| 7 | It contained mirrors from Ancient Greece , Pharaonic Egypt , Rome , Etruria , Persia , Byzantium and China ( Warring Kingdoms , Han , Tang , Sung , Yuan , Ming Quing ) from the third century BC to the late nineteenth century AD . |
| 8 | The Soviet Union was conscious of the historic record of confrontation and suspicion between Russia and Japan extending back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 9 | From the sixth century to the late nineteenth century Japan 's only military involvement on the Asian mainland was Hideyoshi 's short-lived and abortive invasion of Korea in 1592 . |
| 10 | But the idea that the ethical state had an obligation to protect the weak , to promote actively moral conduct and encourage human evolution was specific to the late nineteenth century . |
| 11 | In his review of organism and ecosystem as geographical models Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 523 ) showed how Tansley 's concept broadened the scope of ecology beyond the purely biological content and gave formal expression to a variety of concepts covering habitat and biome which date back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 12 | And if modernism is the result of a stage of differentiation whose onset is proper to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , then modernity is the product of a much earlier stage of this differentiation process . |
| 13 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 14 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 15 | Loan exhibitions also will augment the fair : an exhibition arranged by Sotheby 's of pottery from the reserve collection of the Hampshire County Museum 's Service at Alton will feature objects never before displayed publicly and will show the development of British pottery from the fourteenth to the early nineteenth centuries . |
| 16 | The reports of the Select Committee on the Laws respecting Friendly Societies ( 1825–7 ) show improvements of 20–35 per cent from the early eighteenth to the early nineteenth century . |
| 17 | From the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century between 4 and 14 per cent of in-patients died in hospital ( Cherry 1972 , Woodward 1974 ) . |
| 18 | We feel that we have largely succeeded in these aims , but more of that later , as I would like to take you back to the early nineteenth century when the object of our association was first mooted . |