Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When large quantities of Chinese blue and white porcelain first arrived in Europe in the 17th century the demand was so high it was nicknamed ‘ Chinamania ’ ; the phrase is just as apt today . |
| 2 | In the 17th Century the most important routes to the north of England took travellers via crossings over the River Trent at Nottingham and Newark . |
| 3 | In the 17th century the farmhouse was owned by the Cockram family and , more recently , the Earl of Eldon . |
| 4 | By the 17th century the character of the woods had changed , landowners having planted out cants of chestnut and ash to supply the hop growers . |
| 5 | Back on the 17th fairway the wait of ten minutes had given Andy time to think . |
| 6 | In the 15th century the town and its palace were thought to be the most beautiful in all Italy . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century the actress Sarah Bernhardt , ‘ attracted by the Absolute , ’ as one guidebook puts it , built a chateau high on the cliff near its northernmost end , the Pointe des Poulains ( Foals ' Point ) , where the offshore rocks are said to resemble young horses galloping in the swaying navy-blue sea . |
| 8 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 9 | As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite . |
| 10 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the police were increasingly active against all sorts of minor public offences such as drunken or disorderly behaviour or the playing of street games . |
| 11 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 12 | Later in the nineteenth century the Lodge became the rectory for St Mary 's Church of Easton Neston , which it remained until the 1880s . |
| 13 | Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there . |
| 14 | ‘ By the fifth decade of the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution had completely dislocated the traditional structure of English society , bringing riches to a few and misery to the many . |
| 15 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 16 | In the second half of the nineteenth century the population of Siberia had doubled , but although some short railways had been built to connect river navigations — as in Canada — conditions of transport remained exceptionally primitive . |
| 17 | In the nineteenth century the name ‘ essential hypertension ’ was invented , meaning that in some patients a rise in blood pressure is a protective mechanism , essential in order to overcome narrowing of the arteries and force blood through them to reach vital organs . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century the stagnant waters of cities were haunted by the shadow of cholera . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century the East Coast resorts such as Newport , Long Branch , Cape May , Bar Harbor and Saratoga Springs were the places to see and be seen , but by the 1880s Atlantic City was the most popular seaside resort . |
| 20 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the British were constantly discovering new holiday destinations . |
| 21 | Centre Since the second half of the nineteenth century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists , especially the British , to Egypt . |
| 22 | In the nineteenth century the various companies amalgamated and gradually merged their quarries into this one colossal pit , which has a circumference of about a mile and a depth of four hundred feet . |
| 23 | During the nineteenth century the Shorthorn became by far the most popular breed in England and was overwhelmingly dominant in the national herd . |
| 24 | Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century the Gunton Park was essentially a dairy herd and here the emphasis on a good milk yield at 4 per cent butterfat continued into the 1930s and 1940s , when the rest of the breeders were changing from dairy to dual-purpose types . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the nineteenth century the breed was rather mixed and mostly horned , with polled types occurring only very locally , and those of the north were mostly described as ‘ white pied ’ while those of the south were red . |
| 29 | In the nineteenth century the Friesian types ( call them what you will ) were also exported to Japan , Africa , the Argentine , Russia and virtually every country in Europe . |
| 30 | During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings . |