Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [art] [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 3 | The evangelical belief , much disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century , that children should be protected from the rigours of the adult world and educated and assisted to be morally good adults , was joined by the end of the century by a belief in the economic and military importance of building , from birth , a strong and stable race . |
| 4 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 5 | It comprised 118 pictures , with paintings by Claude , Poussin , Veronese , Van Dyck , Rubens , Salvator Rosa , Nicolaes Berchem , and a group of ten pictures by Adriaen van der Werff , a contemporary Dutch classicist painter much admired in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | It was the plentiful supply of ‘ fixed air ’ ( carbon dioxide was so called in the 18th century ) above the vats that held his attention . |
| 7 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 8 | Today its Gothic bell-tower , much restored in the nineteenth century , is the only substantial survivor . |
| 9 | If one-roomed cottages were rarely built in the nineteenth century , those with two were common , though very few survive today . |
| 10 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 11 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 12 | The ‘ revolution ’ refers not only to the paper binding of volumes ( which had already occurred in the nineteenth century ) but much more to a shift in distribution methods , away from specialist outlets for books . |
| 13 | The church , uniquely dedicated to St Elgin , was largely renovated in the 19th century , although a Norman font remains and also the remains of a 10th century Viking cross of unusual detail , found in the churchyard . |
| 14 | There on either side of the River Leam , lie the wonderfully pre-served sites of the deserted villages of Braunstonbury and Wolfhamcote both apparently finally abandoned in the sixteenth century , together with the latter 's tiny church . |
| 15 | The latter was generally believed in the eighteenth century to be a Galloway variety or cross , looking exactly like the Scottish breed except in colour . |
| 16 | Despite the obstacles to personal and geographical mobility posed by the communal organization of the liberated peasants , the abolition of serfdom in 1861 nevertheless created conditions in which an even greater number than ever before of voluntary emigrants and settlers from the land-hungry provinces of central European Russia flocked towards the fertile steppe and forest-steppe lands of west and south-west Siberia , thus massively augmenting the influx of peasant settlers already observed in the previous century . |
| 17 | What restrictions had been imposed were largely removed in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | As the image of home became more sentimentalised in the nineteenth century , one 's entry into the world of affairs appeared more threatening and the promptings of prudence suggested deferred gratification . |
| 19 | The paradoxes of our story are nowhere writ so large as in Rome ; the basilicas of San Clemente and Santa Maria in Trastevere were totally rebuilt in the twelfth century — and yet they perfectly express the art and architecture of the fourth century — as perfectly as any Gothic building of the nineteenth century expresses the thirteenth , or fourteenth . |
| 20 | The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) . |
| 21 | The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison , which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers . |
| 22 | This art remained deeply rooted in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | This Muslim threat had become more pronounced in the fifteenth century after Sultan Salim of Istanbul had conquered Egypt and received the submission of the Hejaz . |
| 24 | Although a fully national market for grain hardly existed in the eighteenth century , a widespread trade was being operated as increasing urbanisation extended the demand for food supplies over greater distances . |
| 25 | The growth of expectations and the greater willingness of government to intervene in areas previously considered inviolate was to be continued and become more marked in the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Moral reform , from the 1870s , came close to the centre of political debate — much more so than structural social reform ever did in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The idea that humans had no direct moral responsibilities or duties to safeguard the welfare of animals was further reinforced in the seventeenth century by René Descartes ' mechanistic proposition that only humans possessed rational souls and feelings , and that animals were essentially automata devoid of conscious sensation . |
| 28 | Visit Porto Atheni , and climb to a lively taverna in an otherwise timeless village still lost in the last century , rich in smugglers tales and old men sipping ouzo . |
| 29 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 30 | Pytheas , who probably lived in the fourth century , does not seem to have travelled inside Gaul . |