Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] nineteenth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 2 | Navarre was a conservative , stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Small-scale and localized in the early nineteenth century , it became large-scale and increasingly concentrated in several main trawler ports as the century wore on . |
| 4 | Serious hunting began in the early nineteenth century , when tiger shooting became an obsession with the maharajas and nabobs who quickly passed the mania on to the British officials and army officers . |
| 5 | Again , the concentration of childbearing into a short period , which began in the late nineteenth century , now makes this much rarer . |
| 6 | The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life . |
| 7 | Known as the White Polled in the late nineteenth century , the breed was then described as quiet and gentle , similar in size and growth rate to the Red Poll at a time when the few existing white herds were found mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk . |
| 8 | As the Ottoman Empire in Europe disintegrated in the late nineteenth century , leaving a number of small successor states , hostility mounted between Russia and Austria-Hungary over their rival claims to influence in the Balkans . |
| 9 | The universities are not formally sub-divided , but informal groupings based on origin and type distinguish between Oxbridge ( Oxford and Cambridge ) , the large federal university of London founded in the early nineteenth century , the larger ‘ civic ’ universities established later in the nineteenth century in provincial cities ( e.g. Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Bristol ) , the smaller civics such as Exeter , Hull or Leicester , the ‘ new ’ universities founded ab initio in the 1960s , such as Lancaster , Essex and Sussex , the ‘ ex-CATS ’ such as Aston , Salford and Bradford , which were upgraded from Colleges of Advanced Technology at around the same time , and the Scottish , Welsh and two Northern Irish universities . |
| 10 | Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution . |