Example sentences of "[prep] [art] mid-nineteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five unmarried Clifford daughters lingered in this garden under these trees and painted the most exquisite water-colours during the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 2 | During the mid-nineteenth century , the wine trade was hit by a crisis of disease and lack of care and planning . |
| 3 | During the mid-nineteenth century the Illustrated London News often carried reports about and illustrations of Madeira . |
| 4 | OF THE more common festivals the most interesting of those mentioned in the Stamford Mercury is Plough Monday , which is reported during the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |
| 6 | There has also been a significant decline in the cult of the saints , and many of the practices which characterized the devotional revolution of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Its replacement marker indicates a thirteen-foot drop between the present ground level and that of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 8 | WHEN the zoologists of the mid-nineteenth century divided the world and its flora and fauna into six zoogeographical regions ( see Introduction ) , the boundaries of most of these zones were self-evident . |
| 9 | Scolar 's British Printmakers 1855–1955 edited by Robin Garton ( £75 ) starts with the Etching Revival of the mid-nineteenth century , and includes the experimental work carried out at Corsham and St Ives in the 1950s . |
| 10 | A clergyman 's daughter , aged only 25 in 1860 , Emily Faithfull was one of the " strong-minded women " of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Fashionable Biarritz was the creation of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 12 | The epidemics of the mid-nineteenth century , with their high mortality rates , revived the interest in the potential of health services to contribute to economic growth . |
| 13 | Recipes for such dishes were to be found in the cookery books of the mid-nineteenth century , usually under the rather patronising heading of ‘ Food for the Poor ’ . |
| 14 | Later in life he moved to America , where England 's most popular novelist of the mid-nineteenth century died in obscurity and want , in March ( before 15 March ) 1890 , in New York . |
| 15 | The electric telegraph seemed to those of the mid-nineteenth century to be one of the most amazing feats of science-reasonably enough , if one remembers the long and uncertain times letters took in days of sail . |
| 16 | Probably the physics of the mid-nineteenth century was not as spectacular as that of the preceding and following period , but its theoretical advances were indeed very impressive . |
| 17 | Modern linguistics has taken an entirely different road , rejecting the historicist and evolutionist interests of the mid-nineteenth century perhaps with excessive violence , and to this extent the main development of philology in our period worked out known principles rather than anticipating new ones . |
| 18 | Tissot the saleswoman told her , was a French artist of the mid-nineteenth century a contemporary of Degas . |
| 19 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 20 | No better picture of a mid-nineteenth century market town can be found than the portrait of Dorchester in Thomas Hardy 's The Mayor of Casterbridge . |
| 21 | But at the same time the number of available children with whom they might reside is much reduced by comparison , say , with the mid-nineteenth century , because of the reduction in the birth rate . |
| 22 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 23 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The introduction of labour-saving agricultural machinery to reduce wage costs began in earnest from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 25 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 26 | A key factor here was the campaign for the improvement of the social position of doctors from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Distinct class variations could be observed , and from the mid-nineteenth century the existence of some form of class differentiation in family size had come to be accepted by most writers on the subject ; by the census of 1911 the difference in the fertility of certain groups was clearly marked . |
| 28 | As we know , the history of medical politics from the mid-nineteenth century witnessed a growing feminist presence in official debates over sex . |
| 29 | The Crown Agents , for example , date from the mid-nineteenth century , the Development Commission was set up in 1909 and the Horserace Totalisator Board ( the Tote ) goes back to 1928 . |
| 30 | These single-shot service weapons , dating from the mid-nineteenth century and firing a lead bullet which inflicted appalling wounds , had been exported to Abyssinia in great numbers by the French . |