Example sentences of "part [prep] [art] nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | These functions have been well carried out by Baedeker guides since the foundation of the German firm in the first part of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century , most people were averse to official intervention in social and family affairs and the Victorian age can be seen as an era in which individualism was the leading social ethic . |
| 4 | During the latter part of the eighteenth century several handsome houses were built overlooking the river there and the name became ‘ Strand on Green ’ , and not until the early part of the nineteenth century did the present name of ‘ Strand-on-the-Green ’ become formally adopted . |
| 5 | One of the National Schools — which were aided , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , by voluntary societies and the Church , with assistance from Parliament — was established at Strand-on-the-Green , off Back Lane , in 1874 , and became the Strand-on-the-Green School . |
| 6 | During the early part of the nineteenth century a spate of humane legislation was enacted and the SPCA ( which later received royal patronage ) was founded . |
| 7 | Indeed the only method of granting local government to a locality until the early part of the nineteenth century was by a Royal Charter and grants of franchise to corporate bodies and to individuals . |
| 8 | All this was swept away by a new principle which was introduced in the early part of the nineteenth century , namely , that a local authority could not carry out any function unless strictly authorised by statute . |
| 9 | Throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century ‘ citizenship ’ had been part of the civilizing process ; so it was not without reason that T. H. S. Escott , writing in 1897 , described ‘ Social Citizenship ’ as ‘ a Moral growth of Victorian England ’ , probably best exemplified by the Settlement Movement , beginning in the 1880s , with its emphasis on ‘ civic idealism ’ . |
| 10 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century , the application of quantitative methods of science was extended to psychology and so to education . |
| 11 | The French , who throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century had used investment in Russian railways as a way of discomforting German industry , now provided the Poles with capital to continue the work the Russians had started . |
| 12 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Since its discovery by Avogadro in the early part of the nineteenth century , this knowledge has also become a major problem for homoeopathic practitioners . |
| 14 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |
| 15 | Traceable to the early part of the nineteenth century , this consisted of retrospective psychiatric analyses of famous historical figures who , because of their accomplishments , can be judged outstandingly creative . |
| 16 | The laws of war emerged in their modern form from the last part of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | In their study of the development of the English middle class in the early part of the nineteenth century , based on analysis of wills , Davidoff and Hall have shown that this system did not suit the growing numbers of middle classes who had business or capital to pass on . |
| 18 | It appears that in the earlier part of the nineteenth century a change took place in the kind of family responsibilities which are implied by inheritance practices . |
| 19 | By the later part of the nineteenth century the pattern of inter-generational exchanges which had characterized pre-industrial and early industrial society clearly had shrunk to a pattern of very limited contributions by children to the household economy , except for those children who were allowed to work as ‘ half timers ’ until this possibility was also removed in 1918 ( Hurt , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The spirit of innovation in silver design throughout Europe in the latter part of the nineteenth and early years of twentieth century is celebrated in a stylish exhibition entitled ‘ Silver of a new Era : International Highlights of Precious Metalware from 1880–1940 ’ which opened at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen , Rotterdam and is now at the Museum voor Sierkunst , Ghent ( until 27 July ) . |
| 21 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 22 | Several Acts of Parliament in the latter part of the nineteenth century extended the right of women to vote in local elections if they were otherwise qualified . |
| 23 | The major party contests of the time were , of course , between the Tories and Whigs or , in the latter part of the nineteenth century , their successors the Conservatives and Liberals . |
| 24 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 25 | The decline of tuberculosis mirrors the amelioration of living conditions in the later part of the nineteenth century , as its increase in the late eighteenth reflects the increasing proportion of the population moving to the insanitary towns . |
| 26 | The results of the changes in the latter part of the nineteenth century were certainly dramatic . |
| 27 | Particular studies , such as that by Karl Llewellyn of sales cases in the New York courts in the first part of the nineteenth century , underline that ‘ mercantile mindedness ’ lead to particular outcomes . |
| 28 | From the early part of the nineteenth century , until absorbed in the new social purity movements of the 1880s , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ( founded in 1802 and known universally as the Vice Society ) remained the Victorian 's basic legal force against the obscene , and its work demonstrates the often close relationship between private vigilance and public authorities . |
| 29 | Until the expansion of heavy industry in the West of Scotland in the latter part of the nineteenth century , most Scottish workers were in a low-wage economy , and trade-union organization was not well advanced . |
| 30 | Even for a boy , it was becoming rare , by the latter part of the nineteenth century , that he had fully mastered the trade . |