Example sentences of "[verb] in the 19th century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 3 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The timber-framed building dating from the late 16th century was demolished in the 19th century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Kerry babies story did n't happen in the 19th century . |
| 21 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 22 | Despite the extensive decline , it is possible that more Redshanks still nest in Sussex today than did in the 19th century . |
| 23 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 24 | You might as well have quoted Dickens , because Beveridge 's remarks judged by today 's standards almost belong in the 19th century . |
| 25 | Before the wells were sunk in the 19th century , the San Joaquin Valley was as dry as the Sahara . |
| 26 | In that case the supply of dentures was considered to be a sale , and it was clear that the court paid scant regard to the dentist 's skill , providing some indication of the dentist 's standing in the 19th century . |
| 27 | Two other directions taken in the 19th Century by the theory of groups should perhaps be mentioned . |
| 28 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 29 | Northland prospered in the 19th Century from the logging , especially of kauri trees , and the digging of kauri gum . |
| 30 | The mill has seen a number of alterations and was extended in the 19th century when dormers were added . |