Example sentences of "in [art] 1890s " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brewery was founded in 1853 , started to make wheat beers in the 1890s , and has produced nothing else since it came into its present ownership , the Brombach family , in 1935 . |
| 2 | In the 1890s the atmosphere was not of that settled calm with which it was credited by later and even more anxious generations . |
| 3 | The fashion of male circumcision that began in the 1890s , and a wide range of related subjects . |
| 4 | The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities , such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s . |
| 5 | It was the Akwapim people of southern Ghana , exposed to centuries of trading with Europe , who had the capital in the 1890s to hire porters and clear the forest in order to plant cocoa . |
| 6 | Crowds had begun to fall from a first-day county average of almost 15,000 in the 1890s to under 10,000 between 1906 and 1914 . |
| 7 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 8 | There were only four such papers in the 1880s , but eighteen in the 1890s and after 1900 they were ubiquitous — ‘ as much a part of the cultural scene as the gas-lamp and the fish-and-chip shop ’ . |
| 9 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 10 | Camemberts are still packed in the chipwood boxes that were first used for the cheeses in the 1890s . |
| 11 | A friend of Henry James who shared his passion for Venice ( although the novelist had reservations about her creation of a fake palace in his home town ) , Mrs Gardner transferred her passion from clothes and jewels to art in the 1890s . |
| 12 | In the 1890s Michael Marks , the firm 's founder , put wooden platforms behind his market stalls to keep salesgirls ' feet warm ; these days the company pays for everything from in-house dentists to local community projects . |
| 13 | Such flourishes evolved into Art Nouveau in the 1890s , which , in the search for new sensory experience , contributed to the emergence of the art forms of the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 15 | The second problem was the influx of men trying to enter the ministry by the end of the century ; if we look at ministers actively engaged in church work in 1901 we see that three out of every ten Primitive Methodists , four out of every ten Wesleyans , five out of every ten Congregationalists and seven out of every ten Baptists had entered the ministry in the 1890s . |
| 16 | However among those men ‘ settled ’ in the 1890s it was over twice that , at 41 per cent . ) |
| 17 | This building campaign soared in the 1890s : Wesleyans , Baptists and Primitive Methodists ( there are no accurate statistics for Congregationalists ) spent at least £8,316,920 on building , equivalent to some £275,000,000 in 1990 . |
| 18 | In the event , Gothic was succeeded in the 1890s by a variety of new styles . |
| 19 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 20 | More reassuringly , there is an evocative collection of old toys in the nursery , including a rocking horse made by Ayres in the 1890s . |
| 21 | Most seriously , the only feminists of any note who were not vehemently opposed to the attempt to introduce Prussian–Napoleonic regulation of prostitution into Britain were Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , and in the 1890s the maverick temperance campaigner Lady Henry Somerset . |
| 22 | Labour began in the 1890s because the Liberal Party failed to respond to social change . |
| 23 | This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time . |
| 24 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 25 | George Lansbury himself became one of the first reforming Poor Law Guardians in East London in the 1890s , and the social legislation of the Liberals , including the state Old Age Pension introduced in 1908 , was a direct response to the rising political influence of the labour movement . |
| 26 | For the villagers of Kidlington in the 1890s that privilege was not only rare , it was also a startling novelty . |
| 27 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , and its successor the Spens Report of 1938 , had envisaged that not all children would want or could profit from the kind of schooling which was available in Cardiff in the 1930s or in Thame in the 1890s , and that different kinds of pupils deserved not only various curricula but also distinctive types of school . |
| 28 | The American Express Company was founded in 1850 , primarily to carry mail , gold bullion and passengers , but it gradually moved into shipping and in the 1890s set up offices in Europe 's major ports handling freight bound for the United States . |
| 29 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 30 | In essence , this was the preformationist theory proposed in the 1890s by August Weismann , one of the uncles of modern embryology . |