Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 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 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 7 | Around Stoney Street ( south-east of city centre near St Mary 's Church ) is a commercial complex built in the nineteenth century , occupying a considerable part of the medieval town 's former area , and now known as the Lace Market . |
| 8 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 9 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 10 | A committee is to tackle the restoration of the small grotto constructed in the sixteenth century in the grounds of the villa celebrated in Borghini 's treatise , Il Riposo . |
| 11 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 12 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 13 | ( a ) Sinusoidal projection , and equal-area projection developed in the 16th century . |
| 14 | It was a national architecture formed in the thirteenth century , |
| 15 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 16 | The village can only be described as picturesque , the core built in the 13th century has narrow and sometimes steep and winding cobblestone alleys . |
| 17 | As the pace of economic exploitation quickened in the nineteenth century the forests were depleted , the ravages of the woodmen being supplemented by the destructive habits of the goats kept by the peasants . |
| 18 | Modern linguistic genealogy began in the 18th century , with Sir William Jones 's comparative studies of Sanskrit , Greek and Latin , which revealed the Indo-European family of languages . |
| 19 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 20 | A squat square chimney at Stone Edge , north-west of the village , marks the site of a lead-smelting mill established in the eighteenth century , and entertains a dubious claim to be the earliest industrial chimney in England . |
| 21 | Although of older pedigree , the modern law of confidence developed in the nineteenth century and then lay relatively dormant until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Together with the Earls ; interests in the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company , this provided a source of urban and industrial investment as the town developed in the nineteenth century and an assessment will be made of their significance in the overall strategies employed in the management of the estate . |
| 23 | The biggest jump in this evolutionary process occurred in the seventeenth century with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , which led to the establishment of the doctrine of the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 26 | ‘ When the goldsmithing business expanded in the thirteenth century , it was moved out here because of the danger of fire from the furnaces , ’ he explained . |
| 27 | The Assassins , a Muslim sect founded in the eleventh century , were reputed to reward their devotees with visions of heaven by the use of hashish ( from which they were widely assumed to derive their name ) . |
| 28 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Derbyshire Library ( Chesterfield ) Contents of general value are the Wyatt Collection concerning lead mining in the nineteenth century ; records of the Derby Canal Company ; and the Duesbury Collection on china and porcelain manufacture . |
| 30 | 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 . |