Example sentences of "century see a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early 19th century saw a chemical revolution in the emergent paint industry , inspired by experiments subsidised by the French government , resulting in colours that had never been manufactured before . |
| 2 | The late eighteenth century saw a radical reappraisal of classical antiquity as a key inspiration for contemporary architects , vividly demonstrated by Adam 's refashioning of Kenwood itself . |
| 3 | The mid-nineteenth century saw a major increase in the market and supply of pornography : its concerns ( flagellatory , the cross-class seduction of servants and young girls , and so on ) were often different in substance from our own ( there was little homosexuality for instance ) , but they illustrate a growing demand for fantasy fulfilment in the very heart of ‘ respectability ’ . |
| 4 | The late nineteenth century saw a major expansion of paleontology as new areas were opened up for exploration . |
| 5 | The evidence is clear , too , that in mining districts the first part of the nineteenth century saw a serious erosion of holidays . |
| 6 | The second half of the seventeenth century saw a distinct movement away from the erratic lavishness which had marked much of this aspect of international relations in earlier decades . |
| 7 | As things turned out , the seventeenth century saw a total collapse which left both Newbury and Reading only the remnants of their former trade . |
| 8 | The mid- and late nineteenth century saw a savage counter-attack on this system , with a reduction of pensions to a mere third of the value of the average working man 's wage , and a concerted attempt to shift more of the burden back onto the family . |
| 9 | It is no accident that the nineteenth century saw a tremendous acceleration of interest among librarians in classification and indexing procedures . |
| 10 | The accession of the Tudors was fairly smooth in Sussex , and the sixteenth century saw a reasonable degree of internal political order under the powerful influence of the great local noble families — the Arundels , Montagues , Sackvilles , Lumleys and de la Warrs — whose dependent gentry kept the peace at parish level . |
| 11 | The " Tulip Era " of the early eighteenth century saw a brief spurt of interest in the western world and its technological accomplishments : under the Grand Vizier Damad Ibrahim Pasha ( 1717 – 30 ) five short-lived diplomatic missions were sent to Europe — two to Vienna , one each to Paris , Moscow and Warsaw . |
| 12 | The third quarter of the nineteenth century saw a remarkable development of such resorts — at the seaside in Britain , in the mountains on the continent . |
| 13 | In parts of Lincolnshire , for example , the early seventeenth century saw a massive attack on the former open fields . |
| 14 | As Foucault ( 1977 ) famously observed , the end of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century saw a massive shift from corporal to carceral punishment . |
| 15 | The first half of the nineteenth century saw a notable development in deaf history aside from the growth of educational facilities . |
| 16 | The mid-second century saw a passionate interest in the exact reproduction of Classical Greek speech . |
| 17 | The end of the second decade of this century saw a marked change in the sexual climate . |
| 18 | In common-law jurisdictions the nineteenth century saw a rapid development in contract doctrine to accommodate the changing market . |
| 19 | Like our own time , the late nineteenth century saw a constant tension between the desire to exploit and the desire to conserve , and we should beware of identifying either of these attitudes with any particular development in the scientific study of life and its environment . |
| 20 | The sixteenth century saw a significant shift in authority in Lewes . |
| 21 | The first half of the twentieth century saw a considerable broadening in the provision of income-maintenance facilities for elderly people in Britain such that , dragged along behind the overall rise in living standards , their absolute material conditions improved greatly . |
| 22 | In addition to these directly maritime activities which set the town 's character as a port , the nineteenth century saw a considerable development in engineering . |
| 23 | Evidence for road transport is hard to come by , but it is worth remembering that the fifteenth century saw a considerable amount of bridge-building ; old timber structures were replaced by stone ones , some of which still survive . |
| 24 | They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange . |
| 25 | First , the mid sixteenth century saw an astonishing rash of woman rulers : Mary Tudor , Catherine de Medici , Mary of Hungary , Margaret of Parma , Mary 's own mother Mary of Guise . |