Example sentences of "from [art] eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 2 | On 15 September some 80 guests were present at an Overseas Reception at London Weekend Television House , where they had a first class view of the flypast from the eighteenth floor . |
| 3 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 4 | Today 's reading , from The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars , is about a boy called Mouse Fawley . |
| 5 | Phyllis Mary Ashraf 's Introduction to Working Class Literature in Great Britain ( 1978–9 ) considers a number of poets from the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It dates from the eighteenth century and is built on three storeys , and , though no longer in commercial use , it is maintained as a working museum . |
| 8 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 10 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 12 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 13 | The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies . |
| 14 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 15 | From the eighteenth century , borrowers also gained growing legal protection over ways in which lenders could enforce payment ( especially with the starting of county courts in 1846 and the Debtors Act 1869 ) ; and over the conditions and paperwork for loans ( especially with the Pawnbrokers Acts of 1800 and 1872 , and the 1882 Bills of Sale Act , and perhaps above all the Money-Lenders Act 1900 ) . |
| 16 | Now , with the opening last month of thirty-nine rooms on the second floor of the Cour Carree , for French paintings and works on paper from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , the restructuring of the museum has entered a new phase more directly concerned with the collections themselves . |
| 17 | From the eighteenth century are worth noting an oil and vinegar cruet by Francois-Thomas Germain and Louis Regnard and a pair of sauce-boats by Leopold Antoines ( both lots : est . |
| 18 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 19 | The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) . |
| 20 | The early 1860s had witnessed the culmination of the great modernising transformation of the criminal justice system in Britain : away from the reliance on hanging , whipping and transportation that had dominated the ‘ Bloody Code ’ inherited from the eighteenth century , towards an essentially novel emphasis on the reformation of character through the discipline of the penitentiary . |
| 21 | However , from the eighteenth century onwards in Western Europe , important changes took place in perspectives on and understanding of society and the individual 's place in it . |
| 22 | 2.1 From the Eighteenth Century to the Present |
| 23 | 2.2 The Decline of Mortality from the Eighteenth century |
| 24 | Abortion was another ; abortifacients , some of them potentially effective like ergot and savin , were advertised from the eighteenth century onwards in journals and handbills ( Potts , Diggory , and Peel 1977 ) . |
| 25 | From the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century between 4 and 14 per cent of in-patients died in hospital ( Cherry 1972 , Woodward 1974 ) . |
| 26 | The gap between birth- and death-rates from the eighteenth century opened up an unparalleled new window for population growth . |
| 27 | Lawrence Stone , for instance , in his massive book , The Family , Sex and Marriage , speaks in terms of a long development towards modern sexual ‘ permissiveness ’ from the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | There is considerable evidence from the eighteenth century of a new concern with childhood in middle-class ideology and practice . |
| 29 | Some date from the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | of the total population lived , that agrarian reformers , from the eighteenth century to the second Republic , found the agrarian problem of Spain par excellence , tending to neglect , by comparison , the plight of the marginal farmer in central Spain . |