Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] in the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school perhaps falls into a tradition of paternalistic state intervention in the cause of social welfare , which has its roots in the nineteenth century ; a tradition in which the values of the dominant class have been imposed on the poor for their own good , and in which the children of the poor have been removed to make a ‘ fresh start ’ in what were adjudged more favourable circumstances than those of their origins . |
| 3 | We have wonderful eighteenth-century objects , but would like to strengthen our holdings in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 5 | While , as stated , some of the concepts used now have their origins in the nineteenth century and earlier , there were nevertheless different views taken of how far the courts ought to be reviewing tribunals and other inferior bodies . |