Example sentences of "of the twentieth [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Chapman , who died on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his first appearance in the show which made his reputation , travelled along ( and to a certain extent pioneered ) that now orthodox route to celebrity . |
| 2 | Chapman had died of cancer on Wednesday on the eve of the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first Monty Python show . |
| 3 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 4 | For example , the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the revolts of 1968 became a media event in Europe , less so in the Americas , and were relentlessly commercially exploited , with the willing and presumably lucrative participation of many of those who had then been ( and still are ) dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system . |
| 5 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 6 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 7 | At the end of the twentieth century , at least some colour illustrations are likely to find places in a monograph . |
| 8 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | At the end of the twentieth century group exhibitions perhaps do not have the importance that they have had earlier in the century . |
| 10 | We 've just emerged from an exhibition at the Royal Academy , ‘ British Art of the Twentieth Century . ’ |
| 11 | From the first ballets de cour until the beginning of the twentieth century music was always specially commissioned . |
| 12 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 13 | Europe experienced in the first half of the twentieth century a simultaneous cultural , spiritual and political breakdown . |
| 14 | Modern penitentials wo n't be of much use to future historians of the twentieth century , but eleventh-century penitentials might be , rich as they are in the prejudices of our enlightened age — particularly the inferior status of women . |
| 15 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 16 | While her husband 's work is seen as one of the landmarks in Western painting of the twentieth century , she has retained her own identity , working with the exquisite finesse of the best , traditional Japanese painters . |
| 17 | More than most Europeans , the British were still a lively , distinctive people at the end of the twentieth century — and not only for geographical reasons . |
| 18 | The enduring appeal of the Conservatives is undoubtedly one of the most important political phenomena of the twentieth century : and yet both the party as an institution and the nature of British Conservatism remain relatively under-studied . |
| 19 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 20 | This may be because the ‘ classic ’ factories of the twentieth century tend to be low-rise , usually single-storey structures , built to very broad plans from cheap and impermanent materials . |
| 21 | Baillie Scott was the progenitor of the American open plan and the most innovative interior decorator the first few decades of the twentieth century ever saw . |
| 22 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 23 | When it comes to handling the environmental crisis there is undoubted strength but also a flaw in the Western democratic system which has triumphed so dramatically , both ideologically and materially , at the end of the twentieth century : its political and economic well-being depends on growth and the prospect of ever-increasing wealth and improved standards of living . |
| 24 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 25 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 26 | Sandys ’ Reformation did exactly the opposite : his policies reinforced British military capabilities for nuclear war , while cutting the ships , aircraft and above all infantry needed for the type of fighting in which military forces have been constantly engaged in the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 27 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 28 | In the early half of the twentieth century , the burning of fossil fuel such as coal , in which the 14 C had totally decayed away , diluted the atmospheric 14 C concentration relative to 13 C and 12 C. Nuclear weapons testing had an even more dramatic effect on atmospheric 14 C content . |
| 29 | There was a realisation that the mantle of radicalism had been seized from the Liberal Party and that the main political division of the twentieth century would not be between the Tories and the Liberals but between Labour and anti-Labour . |
| 30 | Explained one reluctant fan , ‘ The best art of the twentieth century has almost never made you feel good . ’ |