Example sentences of "from [art] eighteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley . |
| 2 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 3 | Phyllis Mary Ashraf 's Introduction to Working Class Literature in Great Britain ( 1978–9 ) considers a number of poets from the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |
| 5 | It dates from the eighteenth century and is built on three storeys , and , though no longer in commercial use , it is maintained as a working museum . |
| 6 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 7 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 9 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 10 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 11 | From the eighteenth century , borrowers also gained growing legal protection over ways in which lenders could enforce payment ( especially with the starting of county courts in 1846 and the Debtors Act 1869 ) ; and over the conditions and paperwork for loans ( especially with the Pawnbrokers Acts of 1800 and 1872 , and the 1882 Bills of Sale Act , and perhaps above all the Money-Lenders Act 1900 ) . |
| 12 | From the eighteenth century are worth noting an oil and vinegar cruet by Francois-Thomas Germain and Louis Regnard and a pair of sauce-boats by Leopold Antoines ( both lots : est . |
| 13 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 14 | The early 1860s had witnessed the culmination of the great modernising transformation of the criminal justice system in Britain : away from the reliance on hanging , whipping and transportation that had dominated the ‘ Bloody Code ’ inherited from the eighteenth century , towards an essentially novel emphasis on the reformation of character through the discipline of the penitentiary . |
| 15 | However , from the eighteenth century onwards in Western Europe , important changes took place in perspectives on and understanding of society and the individual 's place in it . |
| 16 | 2.1 From the Eighteenth Century to the Present |
| 17 | 2.2 The Decline of Mortality from the Eighteenth century |
| 18 | Abortion was another ; abortifacients , some of them potentially effective like ergot and savin , were advertised from the eighteenth century onwards in journals and handbills ( Potts , Diggory , and Peel 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The gap between birth- and death-rates from the eighteenth century opened up an unparalleled new window for population growth . |
| 20 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | There is considerable evidence from the eighteenth century of a new concern with childhood in middle-class ideology and practice . |
| 22 | Some date from the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | of the total population lived , that agrarian reformers , from the eighteenth century to the second Republic , found the agrarian problem of Spain par excellence , tending to neglect , by comparison , the plight of the marginal farmer in central Spain . |
| 24 | This situation and its controversies have continued , but in general , from the eighteenth century , increasingly specialized academies came through as institutions for teaching many of the arts . |
| 25 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 26 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 27 | It is only from the eighteenth century that ‘ bourgeois art ’ sets itself up as a realm separate from the social with its own specific ‘ institutional ’ apparatus of production , distribution , and reception of aesthetic forms . |
| 28 | The site has been known to many antiquaries from the eighteenth century onwards ; Gordon recorded that the circuit of the walls was still conspicuous , a description which conflicts with the almost contemporary report of that other noted antiquarian of Hadrian 's Wall , John Horsley , who wrote that the Roman site was almost entirely levelled and under the plough . |
| 29 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 30 | Or can a more positive interpretation be sustained , with France emerging as a close rival to Britain from the eighteenth century onwards ? |