Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the nineteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 2 | The writings of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the nineteenth century provide one of the earliest critiques and explanations of the structure of power in capitalism . |
| 3 | So-called civilisation arrived in Sutherland in the nineteenth century , after the clan system had been destroyed by the disastrous machinations of Prince Charles Edward Stewart , Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 4 | In the Steam Museum , the Power Hall displays live steam stationary engines made or working in Ireland during the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Given the range of the latter , his historical output was substantial , with his work in English history , best represented by England in the Nineteenth Century , 1815–1914 ( 1950 ) , eclipsed in quality by his work on French history , which was attractively written and distinctive in approach and content : his several books on the subject included Democracy in France ( 1946 ) , which ran into five editions before his death . |
| 6 | D. Thomson England in the Nineteenth Century ( Penguin : 1978 ) |
| 7 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 8 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |
| 9 | The aim of the project is to produce an annotated bibliography of material in Parliamentary papers relating to Scotland in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | chart the migration history from the Indian subcontinent to Scotland from the nineteenth century to the present day ; |
| 11 | Pascal , Blaise ( 1623–1662 ) A French theologian and mathematician , Pascal is most famous for his unfinished Pensées ( Thoughts ) , in which , by means of brilliant , pungent remarks , he attempts a vindication of Christianity through a series of perceptive observations whose psychological insight and aphoristic style anticipate the approach of the brilliant atheist Nietzsche in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | If ( for example ) the overall project begins in the potato famine in Ireland in the nineteenth Century , A can work with the group emigrating to America , while B works with those who choose to remain in Ireland . |
| 13 | ‘ He loved to talk the country dialect , and was welcome at all farms as friend ’ , wrote Canon Rawnsley in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | It was restored in Gothic manner under the Emperor Franz Josef in the nineteenth century and once more used as a coronation church . |
| 15 | To localise a region of dysfunction , therefore , is not to localise a function , as pointed out by Hughlings Jackson in the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The tension between the rights of parents , of their children , and of the state , which attracted increasing legislative attention in the UK during the nineteenth century , continues to be demonstrated in the concerns of pressure groups in recent years . |
| 18 | The work was probably commissioned by the Forbes family , prominent American merchants active in China during the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | He relates an incident of the explorer Stanley in Africa in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | This can be illustrated from a wide variety of cases : the uses of literacy for social control in nineteenth century Canada , for instance , where any ‘ critical ’ element was carefully excluded ( Graff , 1979 ) ; the restriction of the content of written forms to religious tracts by the Methodist missionaries who introduced literacy to Fiji in the nineteenth century ( Clammer , 1976 ) ; the examples from British literacy campaigns that show how illiteracy developed in schools because of the class-based nature of schooling ( Mace , 1979 ) ; the uses of literacy for religious and symbolic purposes in Ghana ( Goody , 1968 ) ; the greater trust placed by thirteenth century knights in England on seals and symbols as means of legitimating charters and rights to land and their suspicion of the written document as more likely to be forged and inaccurate ( Clanchy , 1979 ) ; the development in Iranian villages of forms of literacy taught in Koranic schools into forms of literacy appropriate for commercial trading in a rapidly modernising and urbanising economy ( Section 2 ) . |
| 21 | Fortunately , they were well published soon after their discovery ; unfortunately , most of them were stolen from the Cabinet des Medailles in Paris in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Being mostly Muslim and with a Central Asian cultural background , the Uighurs had been incorporated into China in the nineteenth century ( Xinjiang was formerly known as Turkestan ) . |
| 23 | This solitary travelling , in an age when travel was dangerous , may seem to show her as an indomitable and independent woman , like Mary Kingsley in the nineteenth century ; but in fact , like most psychotics , she was extremely dependent on others . |
| 24 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century contemplated refusing her assent to a measure but wiser counsels prevailed . |
| 26 | The criterion of simplicity could itself be referred , as it was by Newton , to a God who had ensured that nature did nothing in vain or , as it was by Michael Faraday in the nineteenth century , to a God who had ensured that the book of his works would be as simple to comprehend as the book of his words . |
| 27 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 28 | Specifically Darwinian illustrations are to be found in R. D. Fitzgerald 's Australian Orchids ( 1882–94 ) , one of the most splendid books published in Australia in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights . |
| 30 | It called for a return to the sunnah and followed a tradition of Islamic resurgence in Egypt in the nineteenth century . |