Example sentences of "of [num ord] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Smith ( 1971 , pp. 5–9 ) , in his general study of the subject , observes that ‘ The prevailing image of nationalism in the West today is mainly negative ’ , and he continues by saying that this negative evaluation ‘ contrasts with the favourable attitude of nineteenth century liberals and radicals , and later conservatives , towards the doctrine of national self-determination ’ . |
| 2 | There are some sort of public schools survivors groups which have been set up recently and um it 's interesting that this business of being strong and silent um is a kind of is a kind of nineteenth century hangover and I think it affects men and I think it affects women too to some extent . |
| 3 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 4 | It does n't hold land in order to allow ideologues to impose their views on our tenants and impose it through a form of nineteenth century landlordism . |
| 5 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 6 | But this could be seen as simply a more than usually coherent version of a familiar Austro-German interpretation of nineteenth century music history , which sets an over-privileged Viennese tradition at its normative centre . |
| 7 | It also throws light on the guilt-feeling associated with sex , which is a distinguishing mark of nineteenth century morality . |
| 8 | Le Corbusier 's admonitions echo much of nineteenth century morality in terms of emphasis on order and health , and by inference cleanliness . |
| 9 | Poetry , of course , can never become music , despite the dream of nineteenth century symbolists , since , as Eliot 's Sweeney put it , ‘ I got ta use words when I talk to you . ’ |
| 10 | Even the ‘ nightwatchman ’ state of nineteenth century England did this , but not as an active and necessary persona . |
| 11 | The role of the Corporation as art patron is one of the exhibition 's themes , and works on show include paintings acquired by Alderman John Boydell ( a print publisher in his own right ) in the late eighteenth century ; a selection of nineteenth century paintings from the donation made by Charles Gassiot in 1902 ; Landseer 's ‘ The First Leap ’ ( 1829 ) ; Alma-Tadema 's ‘ The Wine Shop ’ ( 1873 ) ; and works by Holman Hunt , Dyce , Lord Leighton , Millais and Rossetti . |
| 12 | The modernization and industrialization of nineteenth century Britain changed the population map . |
| 13 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 14 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 15 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 16 | A group of nineteenth century greeting cards and valentines , types of ephemera now a popular field of collecting . |
| 17 | The great achievements of nineteenth century science — atomism , energetics , evolution , the wave theory of light — were highly theoretical , depending upon conjecture and then search for evidence . |
| 18 | The historical , included a number of 17th–19th century items from the Embroiderers ' Guild collection , which were displayed alongside specific contemporary works . |
| 19 | 3 It was selected by three established embroiderers , Polly Binns , Hannah Frew Patterson MBE , and Audrey Walker , ( with Linda Theophilus , from the Crafts Council ) , and included examples of 17th–19th century embroidery alongside a survey of key 20th century developments . |
| 20 | No matter how carefully I listened , and the faintest signals that I dug up , all my finds proved to be items of 17th century date . |
| 21 | Famous painted ceilings and a fine collection of 17th century paintings . |
| 22 | For the summer , in addition to the lecture tour of Sicily and the weekend excursion to Iona , the Friends have arranged a fascinating guided tour of Greyfriars Kirkyard — which has the finest collection of 17th century monuments in Scotland . |
| 23 | Samples of 17th century air ? |
| 24 | This delightful museum , set in a group of 17th Century cottages , presents a realistic glimpse of every day domestic and commercial life in Nottingham over the last 300 years . |
| 25 | Begun in 1456 , it was granted to Thomas Sackville by Queen Elizabeth I. The house contains one of the most important collections of 17th century furniture in the world . |
| 26 | Whilst the hectic street traffic passes over your head , you can take time to enjoy the delightful sights of 17th century Amsterdam . |
| 27 | Did it improve the lot of 17th Century women ? |
| 28 | The theatre is known to have been built in 1599 , and closed by 1642 , but if records are to be believed today 's rebuilding hardly matches the efficiency of 17th century construction workers . |
| 29 | ‘ I do think more people want en suite bathrooms but rooms without these facilities are obviously cheaper — so it depends on what people want to spend , ’ says Alison Hewitt , co-owner of 17th century coaching inn , the White Hart Hotel , on the Wold , Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | The earliest general discussions that I know of are in the works of 17th century philosopher , René Descartes , Rules for the Direction of the Mind and Discours de la Méthode . |