Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the nineteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This process continued during the nineteenth century . |
| 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 | There is evidence that this trend existed in the nineteenth century ( Hill 1925 ) as well as more recently . |
| 5 | With Gutenberg came the fifteenth-century invention of printing and there , so far as educational technology was concerned , innovation stayed until the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The promotion of private Acts of Parliament continued throughout the nineteenth century , and indeed beyond , bringing a bewildering and sometimes surprising range of services within the power of particular local authorities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His will , which mentions no immediate family , left bequests for the establishment of schools for boys and girls in Amesbury , where Rose 's Grammar School survived into the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 10 | Leapor 's reputation subsided in the nineteenth century , but she was noticed occasionally . |
| 11 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |