Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late-18th century onwards , devices containing hot water were placed under or around the sauce-boat to keep the sauce hot . |
| 2 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 3 | He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) . |
| 4 | The first turkeys were shipped to Europe in the 17th Century when ‘ Turkish ’ was a blanket term for anything which came from or through Arab lands . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In its heyday in the 17th Century as many as 30,000 pairs were sold in a year , the hand-knitted work being mostly collected by wool hosiers from outlying villages . |
| 9 | The end of the 17th Century therefore , found activity on both manors , but like any work in the preceding years , it was clearly only on a small scale . |
| 10 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 11 | They took the lead in the 17th minute when Mike Sheron 's shot from the edge of the Rangers box hit the post and Republic of Ireland international striker Niall Quinn fired home the rebound . |
| 12 | With reference to your telephone conversation with my secretary on the 15th instant when you confirmed that you had completed your mortgage arrangements with Barclays Bank PLC , Bishops ' Stortford and that it was in order for me to deal with the draft Contract when it was received . |
| 13 | Tempers briefly flared in the 15th minute when Steve Nicol was flattened by Viktor Onopko 's blatant lunge , which followed a crunching challenge seconds beforehand . |
| 14 | Bradford went ahead in the 15th minute when Tony Marchant snapped up a loose ball and squeezed in at the corner . |
| 15 | But the gallery is his ‘ gesture of desperation ’ to make people see the subtle carvings , the magnificent gilt of frames , from the 15th century onwards . |
| 16 | No permanent theatre was permitted in Rome until that built by Pompey in the mid-first century BC . |
| 17 | They bear some resemblance to figurines of the Italic culture of central Italy of the mid-first millennium BC . |
| 18 | But Townsend gave his side a deserved lead in the 19th minute The Republic of Ireland midfielder was perfectly positioned in the nineteenth minute when Graeme Le Saux touched back a crossfield ball from Fleck for his skipper to drive home a low shot . |
| 19 | The nineteenth century also brought a huge expansion of the dock system downstream with the Royal Docks entered from the stretch of the river known as Galleons Reach . |
| 20 | Older senses survived , too ; and , under the impact of Romanticism , ‘ popular songs ’ could in the nineteenth century also be thought of as synonymous with ‘ peasant ’ , ‘ national ’ and ‘ traditional ’ songs . ’ |
| 21 | Apart from the thousands of common criminals who proved to be such a bane for Siberian society , the nineteenth century also witnessed a steady increase in the number of people who , either by judicial or administrative process , were banished to Siberia for political crimes — committed or suspected — against the state . |
| 22 | Russian expansion in the far East during the nineteenth century also involved the annexation of territory belonging to China , which lay in the Amur basin and the ‘ Maritime ’ region between the Ussuri river and the Sea of Japan . |
| 23 | Despite all the wonderful new scientific inventions and the beginning of the electric age ( and hence new fuels for the machine ) , the great power of the nineteenth century simply was not there . |
| 24 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 25 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 26 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century both the Foxton and the Watford lock flights were getting into a series state of disrepair and were leaking badly . |
| 27 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 28 | From the nineteenth century onwards , biologists reported ‘ lichen deserts ’ around towns . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The standard of health in the large towns still lagged behind the country as a whole , in spite of substantial improvements from the last quarter of the nineteenth century onwards ; but this disadvantage need not be , Barlow argued , given good planning . |