Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 2 | The structure of the British court system , combined with the lack of effective policing , ensured that compromise and restitution remained possible during the nineteenth century for all but the most serious crimes . |
| 3 | Edward Thompson maintains that for a variety of reasons traditional pursuits were strongly resilient through the eighteenth century and were weakened only by forces which developed in the nineteenth . |
| 4 | Dating from between 1875 and 1885 , the gilt frame is considered an outstanding example of a type popular during the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The shell design was very popular during the 18th century . |
| 6 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 7 | These were made of steel and popular after the 12th century with the advent of full body armour . |
| 8 | As Dr Jaffery pointed out , the British of the last century must take much of the blame for this . |
| 9 | In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice , Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond . |
| 10 | Things may perhaps be different in the next century . |
| 11 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 12 | Protected by the castle , a settlement grew up , apparently outside the bailey walls on the lower ground , with the modern market area seemingly remaining clear until the 16th century . |
| 13 | Until the slightly contrasting tendencies become more manifest in the later-second century ( with the trend to fully centralised designs etc. ) it is this characteristic which makes these designs complementary . |
| 14 | Cajuns were originally French/Canadian settlers , driven out by the British in the mid-18th century from what was then called Arcadia , now Nova Scotia . |
| 15 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to see why Julian has become so popular in the twentieth century and has inspired writers as different as T. S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch . |
| 18 | Such paintings , generously represented in the exhibition , proved enormously popular in the 19th century to the picture-buyer seeking a painting flavoured with exoticism — perhaps to hang alongside the painting flavoured with the alternative exoticism of a medieval theme . |
| 19 | devotional work popular in the mid-eighteenth century which Mrs Varden is prone to turn to when bent on making life difficult for her husband : ‘ like some other ladies … |
| 20 | Champagne wines became immensely popular in the eighteenth century amongst the English aristocracy . |
| 21 | The daisy pattern was popular in the 18th century . |
| 22 | Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles . |
| 23 | Mirabilis jalapa was very highly prized and remained popular until the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | In marked contrast nearby Taize presented utter simplicity , alive youthful and fresh in the 20th century . |
| 25 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Instead of moving forward into the twenty first century , the Tories are moving backward us backwards with working conditions that would be more suited to the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The earlier work of historical demographers of households was concentrated on examining the simple measure of household size , and they were able to establish by a variety of evidence that the average size remained remarkably consistent between the seventeenth century and the twentieth . |
| 28 | The radical nature of the Thatcherite attack has provoked a fundamental reappraisal of the role and purposes of public agencies , and in so doing provoked fruitful rethinking on what kind of management in the public sector is appropriate for the twenty-first century , in view of the wider social , technological and demographic changes highlighted in Chapter 3 and their impact on work and organisational life . |
| 29 | It is not wise to write , as some have done , of an expanding middle-class market for an ever-widening range of manufactured goods , for " middle-class " is a nineteenth-century usage and too restrictive for the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | It had been kept pure during the nineteenth century and was still thriving early in the twentieth century , but the heavy crossing took its toll and the old type was lost . |