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Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] in [art] nineteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities .
2	Control of local authority borrowing began in the nineteenth century when central government was suspicious of the new local authorities and their potential to borrow money they could not repay .
3	The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system .
4	Palestine assumed the same level of international importance and sensitivity as the Balkans did in the nineteenth century .
5	There is evidence that this trend existed in the nineteenth century ( Hill 1925 ) as well as more recently .
6	Understanding how the face of urban Britain emerged in the nineteenth century may pin-point how to tackle certain of the present problems , and , conceivably , identify the factors which set the die for urban life in the next century .
7	other resort towns came in the nineteenth century .
8	The growth of fringe bodies is a retreat from the simple democratic principle evolved in the nineteenth century that those who perform a public duty should be fully responsible to an electorate — by way either of a minister responsible to Parliament or of a locally elected council .
9	The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century .
10	Leapor 's reputation subsided in the nineteenth century , but she was noticed occasionally .
11	There is little political controversy attached to the figure of the sovereign , for as Bagehot recognized in the nineteenth century , the successful constitutional monarch should be seen to be removed from politics .