Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 2 | It was restored in the 17th century and further refurbished more recently with all work retaining the original style and atmosphere . |
| 3 | It is a fortified monastery , restored in the nineteenth century but still containing a beautiful Romanesque nave ( see p. 11 ) and taller Gothic choir . |
| 4 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 5 | Anorexia is a relatively modern illness er the first descriptions of it are found in the nineteenth century and today it 's er by no means an uncommon illness in er mainly in young women , very occasionally in men , but , but er y it 's more or less safe to say it 's er it 's a disease of er women and almost always younger women . |
| 6 | In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice , Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond . |
| 7 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 8 | Sociological positivism emerged mainly in the nineteenth century and particularly flourished in the French intellectual tradition . |
| 9 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 10 | The creative activity went on to the end of the Venetian and Ragusan republics at the turn of the nineteenth century and even beyond . |
| 11 | Herbert Spencer pursued a literary and journalistic career throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and also found time to write books on such subjects as The Proper Sphere of Government , Social Statics , First Principles , Man Versus the State , Principles of Ethics , and many others besides . |
| 12 | The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth , the Prime Minister 's position vis-a-vis the Cabinet was described as primus inter pares — the first among equals . |
| 14 | Spanish industrialization was relatively weak , late , and often under foreign control , and indeed the country remained a largely agrarian and underdeveloped society during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 15 | This approach to treatment , strong in the nineteenth century and all but eclipsed in the twentieth , is still waiting in the wings . |
| 16 | Organizations such as Dr Barnardo 's , the National Children 's Homes and the Catholic Rescue Society pioneered methods of child care during the nineteenth century and still play a very active part in the child care service . |
| 17 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 18 | It was restored in Gothic manner under the Emperor Franz Josef in the nineteenth century and once more used as a coronation church . |
| 19 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 20 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 21 | Toward the end of the nineteenth century and more especially in the twentieth , the responsibilities of government expanded . |
| 22 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 23 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 24 | The earthworks of the village have always been known : they were recorded by the Ordnance Survey surveyors in the nineteenth century and then re-discovered by Maurice Beresford in the late 1940s . |
| 25 | Although of older pedigree , the modern law of confidence developed in the nineteenth century and then lay relatively dormant until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies . |
| 28 | The series of vernacular meditations based on the Franciscan Meditationes Vitae Christi are quite specifically organised in terms of the Canonical Hours as is the series in the thirteenth-century Mirror of St Edmund of Abingdon which was translated from the Latin in the fourteenth century and almost certainly known to Rolle . |
| 29 | In the east of the shire , there was some enclosure as early as the 1250s , it was well under way by the middle of the fourteenth century and virtually complete by the mid fifteenth . |
| 30 | English politics throughout the fourteenth century and especially during Edward II 's reign were crucially influenced by Scotland . |