Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business corporations such as Unilever , ICI and Shell were operating transnationally in the nineteenth century , but their proliferation and freedom of operation has been greatly facilitated , since the Second World War , by technological development . |
| 2 | The school established in East Looe , whose boys were dressed by a charitable fund in light blue coats and caps and were known as ‘ blue boys ’ , also was dissolved early in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Its effect was remembered well into the nineteenth century in Birmingham ; at that later time the campaigners against apprenticeship in the West Indies reproduced and distributed a magazine plate of a Jamaican treadmill on which apprentices were employed , in the conviction that pictorial representations have a far more powerful influence on the mind than letter press descriptions ' . |
| 4 | The prosperity of Cadiz , based on the American trade , was to decline sharply in the nineteenth century and allow Barcelona to take over its position as the exemplar of middle-class civilization , although it was never to replace the Andalusian towns as nurseries of liberal politicians . |
| 5 | The position was to change significantly in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Fairburn had a busy quarrying industry at one time , and to provide transportation of the stone from the quarries to the River Aire a tramway was constructed early in the nineteenth century to link up with a short section of canal to the river . |