Example sentences of "in the twentieth " in BNC.

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1 In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated .
2 Take African sculpture , much admired by European artists in the twentieth century for its bold forms , not representational of the human figure in a Western sense .
3 In the twentieth century such Ashton ballets as Symphonic Variations and Monotones , MacMillan 's ballets with a theme , Gloria and Requiem , and Balanchine 's many essays about music and , more importantly , his very clear interpretation of a myth , Apollo , are excellent examples of the style .
4 An awkward truth though is that in the twentieth century some of the most committed political criticism has come from conservatives , like Eliot and the Southern Agrarians .
5 In the twentieth century only Einstein and Stravinsky have undamaged personalities ; the others are in varying degrees diabolical , mad , bad , neurotic , tragic or agonised .
6 Letter : Overlooked genius in the twentieth century
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8 Letter : Overlooked genius in the twentieth century
9 But in the twentieth century , conductors have replaced composers as the most influential people in musical life .
10 Historians might say that in the twentieth century in Britain only the reforming administrations of 1906 and 1945 provided a major change in direction to be followed by administrations which consolidated the changes .
11 The creation of the legal framework has ended the ‘ voluntarist ’ tradition that has dominated industrial relations in the twentieth century .
12 She has already established a number of landmarks in political history and psephology : the first woman Prime Minister in any major western industrial state ; the first leader since Lord Liverpool in the 1820s to win three elections in a row , and Prime Minister for the longest uninterrupted spell in the twentieth century .
13 Of Conservative leaders in the twentieth century , A.J. Balfour ( 191 1 ) , Austen Chamberlain ( 1922 ) , Neville Chamberlain ( 1940 ) , Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( 1965 ) , and Mr Heath ( 1975 ) were all eventually forced out of the leadership because of the lack of party support in Parliament ; the last two as much because they had also lost general elections .
14 With the possible exception of Baldwin in 1937 no Prime Minister in the twentieth century has left office willingly and on a high note .
15 The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death .
16 In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore .
17 Stone is anxious to stress that women did not want divorce , which is largely true of the period he concentrates on , although the picture becomes much more complicated in the twentieth century .
18 This of course was less true of the Islamic societies of the savannah which were periodically the subject of reform movements , with a strong ascetic bent , and of recurring significance in the twentieth century .
19 The critique of scientific socialism and economism has a major place in Marxist debate in the twentieth century .
20 Though at times the verse is technically imperfect , it is full of passages of quite stunning beauty ; and the overall conception must make it , though unfinished , one of the most remarkable poems written in English in the twentieth century .
21 At this point in the twentieth century we should no longer be so innocent .
22 Romanticism — the dream of the redemptive love that will bring heaven-on-earth , resolve all difference , end alienation — has in the twentieth century replaced religion as the opium of the people .
23 Greenpeace 's continued insistence on non-violent tactics , even when faced with violence , reflects both its cultural origins and its links with the other great movements for social change in the twentieth century .
24 Saving elephants , tigers and terms in the twentieth century will be a small gain if their habitats are ruined or destroyed along with man 's in the twenty-first .
25 Rubinstein has demonstrated , the rich managed to protect and retain most of their wealth and income despite the more democratic nature of society in the twentieth century and the challenge posed by two Labour governments during the inter-war years .
26 In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party .
27 This method has been used only in the twentieth century .
28 The systematic publication of coins from excavations began only in the twentieth century , and one of the most substantial early publications was of the coins recovered during the American excavations at Sardis in Asia Minor .
29 Historically , Karajan is a conductor of pivotal significance , steeped as a child and as a young man in music-making of the great Austro-German tradition , but the first great conductor to be reared in the twentieth century 's brave new technological age .
30 In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt .
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