Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the twentieth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piero Fornasetti , a Milanese whose contribution to the decorative arts in the Twentieth Century has been described as visionary , trained as a painter and sculptor . |
| 2 | ‘ Towards the Millennium ’ is the city 's own annual festival celebrating the arts in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 4 | The Jewish Museum and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have brought together more than 350 artefacts , photographs , documents and artworks exploring the relationships among African Americans and American Jews in the twentieth century . |
| 5 | It proved remarkably durable — leaving its mark , for instance , on two of the medieval history-books most read by Frenchmen in the twentieth century : Marc Bloch 's Feudal Society and F.L. Ganshof 's Feudalism . |
| 6 | A recognition of the failure of this mechanism , consequent on the massive growth in the capitalisation of companies in the twentieth century , the corresponding increase in the size of their membership that this growth has required , and the shareholder passivity that inevitably results , underlies much modern company law scholarship . |
| 7 | Yet , like most faiths in the twentieth century , Christianity has come under the hypnotic spell of this modern attitude , and Christians are beguiled into behaving as it demands . |
| 8 | Although the literary effusions of Hurtley and Wordsworth and the exaggerated landscapes of James Ward and J. M.W. Turner seem a little over the top to us dwellers in the twentieth century ( who , since the advent of the camera and the picture postcard , like our landscape more real and our prose less flowery ) , the scar nevertheless overhangs and dominates the scene as an example of the incredible forces at work when the landscape we now see was formed . |
| 9 | Contra Marxists , exponents of the autonomous state model are particularly keen to stress that capitalists have continually faced a governing apparatus at least partly structured against them : by feudal forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by socialist labour movements in the twentieth century , and by the military requirements and foreign policy aims of governing elites at all times ( Finer , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Like the great civil servants of the eighteenth century , nearly all the great civilian politicians of liberalism were trained as lawyers and until the emergence of the technicians in the twentieth century — their first rivals were railway engineers — they constituted the professional class par excellence . |
| 11 | For families in the twentieth century , not only is middle age largely free of care for children , but old age is lengthened by an increased expectation of life . |
| 12 | They have implications for understanding regional economic and social problems in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | The Tôd cups were apparently offered as tribute from a Syrian king , perhaps the king of Byblos , which implies that there were complex and long-distance exchanges of goods in the twentieth century BC . |
| 14 | This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Take African sculpture , much admired by European artists in the twentieth century for its bold forms , not representational of the human figure in a Western sense . |
| 16 | The form of industrial development which has two sub-aspects , namely the development of maritime industrial land in the nineteenth century and the development of industrial estates in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Historically , higher education has often seemed reluctant to admit new fields of study and enquiry ; witness the problems faced by the natural sciences and professional fields in nineteenth-century Oxbridge , or by the social sciences in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Had Hoving 's reign been marked by only these highlights , he would have richly earned his self-appointed title as the ‘ crusading force ’ in American museums in the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Saving elephants , tigers and terms in the twentieth century will be a small gain if their habitats are ruined or destroyed along with man 's in the twenty-first . |
| 20 | In most Western democracies in the twentieth century , legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches . |
| 21 | Important names in the twentieth century have included Sir Ivor Jennings , Sir Kenneth Wheare , O. Hood Phillips , and E. C. S. Wade . |
| 22 | The creation of the legal framework has ended the ‘ voluntarist ’ tradition that has dominated industrial relations in the twentieth century . |
| 23 | This would be too akin to the power of the pope backed by the inquisition in the seventeenth century , or to Stalin 's power backed by the KGB over soviet scientists in the twentieth century , to be acceptable . |
| 24 | This body of thought , comprising the major contribution of social scientists in the twentieth century to the understanding of political life , has three essential elements : an economic sociology , a political sociology and a profound concern with long-term structural changes in society ; the last of them being described by several of these thinkers ( Weber and Schumpeter among them ) as involving an ‘ economic interpretation of history ’ . |
| 25 | The major developments in the twentieth century involved an eastward shift and the opening up of a number of large , highly productive pits in what became known as the Dukeries field . |
| 26 | Although historical events have conspired to seal Russian Formalism off from other intellectual developments in the twentieth century and to give it the character of an isolated and localized phenomenon , it does nevertheless have connections with a variety of more recent theoretical movements . |
| 27 | Of Conservative leaders in the twentieth century , A.J. Balfour ( 191 1 ) , Austen Chamberlain ( 1922 ) , Neville Chamberlain ( 1940 ) , Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( 1965 ) , and Mr Heath ( 1975 ) were all eventually forced out of the leadership because of the lack of party support in Parliament ; the last two as much because they had also lost general elections . |
| 28 | These barriers have reached towering heights in the twentieth century , although information does slowly trickle through them . |
| 29 | It is unlikely that there was any drop in the number of draught animals during the late nineteenth century , but the advent of motor vehicles in the twentieth century did reduce their importance . |
| 30 | Cattle stealing was more sensitive to economic fluctuations in the twentieth century than it had been earlier . |