Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the 19th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the context in which gynaecology and obstetrics developed during the 19th century was one of intense conflict among different kinds of medical practitioners , of tremendous change in the organisation of the medical profession , and of social and economic insecurity for many of its members . |
| 2 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
| 3 | It was rebuilt in the 19th century as an extravagant and idealized vision of the Middle Ages for the third Marquis of the Bute by the architect William Burges . |
| 4 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 5 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 6 | Some of these mills were fairly small but a number , mainly built during the 19th century , were of considerable size . |
| 7 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 8 | They are stories situated in different countries — Villette is set in France , and was written in the 19th century , while ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is set in America , and was written in this century . |
| 9 | The condoms , sold at London auctioneers Christie 's , dated from the 19th century . |
| 10 | At one time confined to the south and east of the country , the stock dove spread as arable farming expanded in the 19th century ; but the introduction of organo-chlorine seed dressings in the 1960s was a disaster . |
| 11 | The house is a large Elizabethan revival mansion built in the 19th century with 152 acres of grounds including river frontage along the entire southern side . |
| 12 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 13 | Egerton Grey was built in the 19th century as a rectory and , thanks to the Pitkins ' assiduous antique collecting , it retains the appearance of a Victorian private house . |
| 14 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 15 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 16 | These , and the many other fine Victorian buildings in the city , were paid for by the fortunes made in the 19th century in the wool manufacturing and tailoring trades . |
| 17 | The dramatic story of the royal rescue has always attracted visitors , and an attempt to ‘ restore ’ the house to its appearance when Charles was here was made in the 19th century in deference to this appeal . |
| 18 | Looking at the 19th Century development of number theory we return to Gauss and his reciprocity law . |
| 19 | The original breeding population of this raptore in Sussex was exterminated in the interests of game preserving during the 19th century , breeding being last recorded in Ashdown Forest in 1882 . |
| 20 | The fate of the earlier Halling registers is not known but some of the early entries were copied in the 19th century by Sir Thorn as Colyer Ferguson . |
| 21 | The timber-framed building dating from the late 16th century was demolished in the 19th century . |
| 22 | The house in which Mozart died in Vienna — No 970 Rauhensteingasse — no longer exists : it was demolished in the 19th century and is now the site of the Steffel department store . |
| 23 | A CHANCE to escape to the 19th century is being offered at a special day school in Cleveland on Saturday . |
| 24 | ‘ They campaigned throughout the 19th century for ladies ' lavatories , which were gradually introduced — but never on the same scale as the gents . ’ |
| 25 | Elton claims that the ‘ scientific , ordered , systematic study of history only really began in the 19th century ’ and he particularly mentions Namier and Maitland as two historians who ‘ brought a scientific and intellectual approach to the study of history ’ . |
| 26 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 27 | The church , uniquely dedicated to St Elgin , was largely renovated in the 19th century , although a Norman font remains and also the remains of a 10th century Viking cross of unusual detail , found in the churchyard . |
| 28 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 29 | This state of affairs persisted into the 19th Century , Serret , in 1849 , observing that " Algebra is , properly speaking , the analysis of equations . " |
| 30 | PIRACY TODAY Starting with the 19th century pirates of China and South East Asia , that exhibition concludes with a chilling reminder that piracy remains a modern day problem in the Far East . |