Example sentences of "end [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So from the mid century onwards many working-class women seem to have retreated into the home , and by the end of the nineteenth century a conscious ideology was constructing the role of housewife and mother . |
| 2 | From the end of the nineteenth century a change in approach is noticeable . |
| 3 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Devon was finding a warm welcome in the American West ; there cattlemen associated red coats with good , profitable beef and the Devon bulls proved invaluable on ranches where endurance and the ability to travel in search of water and grazing were essential . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineteenth century the Guernsey was described as native to Alderney , Sark and Herm as well as Guernsey and was still kept pure by restrictions on imports . |
| 5 | Inevitably , these sociétés became ever more specialized and less accessible intellectually to the layman , so that by the end of the nineteenth century the universal sauvant had effectively disappeared . |
| 6 | By the end of the nineteenth century the lower middle classes were actually seen as the bulwark of respectability . |
| 7 | Indeed , by the end of the nineteenth century the incest taboo was seen as the very key to culture in anthropological works and occupied a pivotal position in Freud 's theorisation of the dynamic unconscious . |
| 8 | By the end of the nineteenth century the quay was deserted ; and now it is a grass-grown waste covered in part with the ruins of houses and other buildings . |
| 9 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 10 | However , the fact and success of world-scale specialism are undoubted ; for instance , towards the end of the nineteenth century the Lancashire cotton industry exported nine-tenths of its output . |
| 11 | By the end of the nineteenth century the friendly societies were also in financial trouble . |
| 12 | In 1860 the foreign secretary urged British diplomats not to use unnecessarily " this very costly channel of communication " , and until at least the end of the nineteenth century the ministers in China and Japan , to save money , were still guided , except in serious emergencies , by despatches which took five weeks to reach them via the Suez Canal , or four if they were sent across Canada . |
| 13 | By the end of the nineteenth century an important cooperative movement was established in West Ham . |
| 14 | At the end of the ninth century a great revival of prose and literature under King Alfred ( 849–901 ) , took place . |
| 15 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 16 | Towards the end of the Labour Government the entire experiment was being reviewed ; some ministers and civil servants had found the experience troublesome . |
| 17 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 18 | By the end of the 19th century the house of phrenology , built as it was on scientific quicksands , had crumbled . |
| 19 | By the end of the 19th century the nude or partially draped figure was still of central importance to sculpture , and the arena in which the sculptor 's skill and intellect would be measured . |
| 20 | They get the sticky end of the golden sceptre every time , do n't they ? ’ |
| 21 | Inside , I saw Mr. Mendez and John Russell at one end of the long table the stage passengers sat at . |
| 22 | It was essential because by the end of the second half the nerves were jangling . |
| 23 | At the end of the second year the exercise is done again , and at the end of the third year , when it has more significance … bearing in mind their choice of subjects for the fourth and fifth year . |
| 24 | By the end of the second day the visitors had reached 239 for 7 , only Gomes and Lloyd making an impression as Allott , recalled after a two-year absence , headed for his best Test return or 6 for 61 . |
| 25 | By the end of the second day the excitement had worn off . |
| 26 | By the end of the second day the allies claimed to have taken 20,000 prisoners , to have destroyed 270 enemy tanks and to have progressed more rapidly than anticipated . |
| 27 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 28 | Towards the end of the infantile period the child is becoming more perspicacious . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the Tsarist period the Slavophils , Dostoevsky , Tolstoy , and others tried to bridge this gulf . |
| 30 | Gastrulation , in the sense of continued ingression through the streak , persists up to and during the 10th day of gestation , but towards the end of the 8th day the first signs of organogenesis are apparent . |