Example sentences of "in the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland has steadily declined throughout ; Northern Ireland fell steeply in the nineteenth century since when it has been relatively stable . |
| 2 | The expansion of the market economy in the nineteenth century at first stimulated the crime by providing markets for stolen cattle . |
| 3 | In the United States the obvious involvement in the political process of the Supreme Court is due to the court having laid claim early in the nineteenth century to the power of judicial review , that is the right to review the constitutionality of executive and legislative acts . |
| 4 | A fine group of English watercolours also came to the College in the nineteenth century through Henry Vaughan , and modern British art is represented by works of Slade School teachers and pupils , among them many works by Henry Tonks and his contemporaries . |
| 5 | There are amusing archaeological records in the nineteenth century of the inability of even trained artists to record what they saw ; Assyrian figure sculptures , for example , were recorded as having unmistakably classical Greek features by an artist in the employ of the archaeologist Sir Henry Layard . |
| 6 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |
| 7 | But for most States , that only became feasible in the nineteenth century with the development of popular participation . |
| 8 | The Danish Red originated from the North Slesvig Red ( an Angeln type with Shorthorn blood ) crossed in the nineteenth century with local island cattle including the red Ballum of southwest Jutland . |
| 9 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 10 | There was a great expansion in the nineteenth century with the coming of power-driven mills , and a corresponding growth in their parent townships . |
| 11 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 12 | In many areas , there were even more boundaries in the landscape than are used today , or were even apparent in the nineteenth century on tithe and other estate records . |
| 13 | At Goslar , in the region of the Harz Mountains , the Kaiserpfalz here was restored in the nineteenth century on its original pattern , 1132 . |
| 14 | This idea was very widespread in the nineteenth century for a variety of reasons . |
| 15 | Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis , without which no one could claim genius . |
| 16 | The space before him was formed from two segments of the crypt 's arcading — the room had been devised in the nineteenth century for use as an office for the vergers . |
| 17 | The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me . |
| 18 | Duman ( 1979 ) points out that the ideal of service served in the nineteenth century as a counterweight to the ascendant laissez-faire business ideology . |
| 19 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 20 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 21 | The strict limitation of local authorities ' powers to specific parliamentary approval grew up almost by accident in the nineteenth century as a result of Railway Companies and other private organisations abusing their powers under private Acts of Parliament . |
| 22 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 23 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | For example : ( 1 ) a school in Liverpool may feel their local history to be linked to part of the world of work on American cotton plantations ; ( 2 ) a school in rural Wales may wish to exploit connections of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia ; ( 3 ) a school in Lancashire may feel it essential to include a study of textiles in the nineteenth century as an in-depth study in a Victorian core unit . |
| 25 | In the case of the link between " reader … he " , the " male as norm " terminology creates the impression that educated discussion of literature takes place only among men ( even though literary study was established in Britain in the nineteenth century as a subject largely for women , and now has a significant majority of women involved in it ) . |
| 26 | Four miles west of Bovey Tracey , on the east side of Dartmoor , are the abandoned granite quarries of Haytor , opened early in the nineteenth century by George Templer . |
| 27 | This quinta was originally built in the nineteenth century by an Englishman , James David Gordon . |
| 28 | The Dogon were almost certainly visited late in the nineteenth century by missionaries who were up-to-date in terms of modern science . |
| 29 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 30 | Typhoid and cholera were eliminated in the nineteenth century by engineering , epidemiology , and bureaucracy . |