Example sentences of "from the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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1 | The effects of movement can be observed in antique pieces from the 17th century onwards , where cleats were put across the ends of structures like writing desk falls in order to gain a flush surface . |
2 | The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century . |
3 | An early Tudor brick manor house in continuous family ownership , of medieval design with timber partitions and regional furniture and portraits from the 17th Century onwards . |
4 | Gnoll Park — A designated Historical Landscape Garden dating from the 17th Century with a reservoir , cascades , lakes and playgrounds , together with many other landscape features . |
5 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
6 | Some examples of these sophisticated Court items , dating from the 17th century , are in existence today , but by the early 19th century , Caucasian weaving had completed the transition to the " folk art " tradition that is universally regarded as the epitome of Caucasian village textile art . |
7 | Southern influences from the 17th century onward , including those of fur traders , whalers , sealers and commercial fisheries , have tended generally to over-exploit natural resources and place indigenous populations at risk . |
8 | Nigel Smith in the introduction to his A Collection of Ranter Writings from the 17th Century — a book offering good evidence of highly individualistic writings which nevertheless share a number of common characteristics — emphasises that the term Ranter was one coined to refer to all those deemed to have extreme opinions . |
9 | Mash tuns or Kieves ( a Dublin term possibly inherited from the 17th century Huguenot brewers ) are essentially great big strainers or filtering vessels where the mash is allowed to ‘ stand-in ’ , in much the same way as a pot of tea is allowed to ‘ draw ’ . |
10 | The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century . |
11 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
12 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
13 | In the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century , clitoridectomy , it appears , ceased to be acceptable . |
14 | From the nineteenth century onwards , biologists reported ‘ lichen deserts ’ around towns . |
15 | The 142 written autobiographies from the nineteenth century are a cross-section of the social classes , but in no sense representative . |
16 | Most of the mining remains to be found date from the nineteenth century , during the last period of activity before cheaper foreign copper brought about the decline and fall of the local industry . |
17 | The windmill in full working order on the heath is a post mill of 1665 , the earliest mill still operable , though its machinery dates mainly from the nineteenth century . |
18 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
19 | Devon Papers , dating from the nineteenth century , of the geologist William Buckland and the naturalist Frank Buckland . |
20 | Most unskilled labourers were part of the indigenous working-class culture inherited from the nineteenth century . |
21 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
22 | I played a real opera singer from the nineteenth century , Nadena Burokhof and I based myself on her . |
23 | The new firm intends to specialise in diamond pieces including signed works from the nineteenth century onwards , and a selection of early Tessiers pieces formerly made for the firm . |
24 | Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection . |
25 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |
26 | In most European countries the move towards education for all dates from the nineteenth century . |
27 | Even today , most convicts are sentenced to ‘ rigorous ’ imprisonment , and , although some revisions are currently being made , the gaols in most states are run according to manuals dating from the nineteenth century . |
28 | From the nineteenth century should be noted ‘ Rauferei vor dem Wirtshaus ’ , an oil by Heinrich Burkel ( est . |
29 | The improvement of mortality from the nineteenth century is to a considerable degree the improvement of the risks in the worst favoured classes and areas ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) . |
30 | APERTURE No.98 , " Western Spaces " , addressed landscape , bringing together a critical article by Lewis Baltz on the CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES of Edward Weston , an essay by Robert Adams on the legacy from the nineteenth century pioneers of landscape photography in the United States , and selections of photographs by David Avison , Richard Misrach , Art Sinsabaugh , William Clift , Frank Gohlke , Robert Adams , Edward Ranney , Lawrence McFarland , Mark Klett — including his work for the " Rephotographic Survey " undertaken by the University of New Mexico , Marilyn Bridges , Terry Husebye , David Hockney , NASA and Emmet Gowin ( a strikingly different interpretation of Mount St. Helen 's from Frank Gohlke 's ) . |