Example sentences of "to the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is not surprising that the general trends for the indigenous population of the Russian colony of Siberia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were that some individuals , mainly ‘ chiefs ’ or traders , adapted to the ways of their conquerors and became successful according to the standards of Russian society , while the mass of their compatriots , exploited by the Russian system and lacking any means of redress , fell increasingly into poverty and degradation . |
| 32 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 33 | These associations can often trace their origins back to the nineteenth century when they were , under different names , primarily concerned with giving relief in cash and kind to families in distress . |
| 34 | The thread that runs through the epics , from the medieval roots to the nineteenth century , is of the struggle for survival of the Christian Slavs against the Turks . |
| 35 | The Textile Museum in the Vadianstrasse has on show a remarkable range of products made in St Gallen from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth . |
| 36 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Prior to the nineteenth century the English word " family " was used in just this way to denote the members of a household , especially the servants , who , in the more affluent social classes , always greatly outnumbered the inner kin-group of parents and children . |
| 39 | Part was published in the 1939 work Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries , but there remains a mass of data and comments written by Beveridge himself and his many research assistants . |
| 40 | The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files , relating to the nineteenth century , into its relational database . |
| 41 | Instead of moving forward into the twenty first century , the Tories are moving backward us backwards with working conditions that would be more suited to the nineteenth century . |
| 42 | Dr Rowlands observes that the Sedgley parish registers , which give occupations almost continuously from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century , demonstrate the continuity of family involvement in scythemaking , lockmaking and nailing . |
| 43 | Before the age of photography , engravings and wood-cuts are available from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century . |
| 44 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |