Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral tradition lived on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 3 | It obviously believes that an emphasis on its citizens ' common humanity is essential to the Community ( it is very premature to say nation or State ) ; that is an old-fashioned belief , dating back to the nineteenth century , but it is consoling in these jarring , mean-spirited , unidealistic times . |
| 4 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 5 | It was suggested earlier that the agencies set up during the nineteenth century to implement social policies were often ad hoc bodies . |
| 6 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 8 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 9 | The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades . |
| 10 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 11 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | The very idea of the ‘ liberal humanities ’ , as distinct from the sciences , grew up in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 14 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 15 | In the early decades of this century the diverse private welfare organizations ( freie Verbände ) began to firm up their organizational structures which resulted in the founding around 1920 of the major welfare organizations which dominate the German welfare landscape today : Side by side with the Protestant ‘ Innere Mission ’ and the Catholic ‘ Caritas ’ , which date back to the nineteenth century , and the Jewish central welfare association ( Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Deutschen Juden , 1917 ) there developed the secular welfare associations of the labour movement ( Arbeiterwohlfahrt , 1919 ) — despite the socialist principle of the primacy of public welfare ! — of the German Red Cross , and of the independent hospitals and nursing institutions ( today called the ‘ Deutscher Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband ’ ) . |
| 16 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 17 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 18 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 19 | 1985 : 1206 ) : ( 191 ) As the novels and tales lead out of the nineteenth century and into our own , we are made to feel more of the limited , contingent validity of moral claims and of collaborative endeavour . |