Example sentences of "to [art] eighteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older colleges , which traced their history back to the eighteenth century 's ‘ dissenting academies ’ had not kept the high standing they had then enjoyed . |
| 2 | Reverting to the eighteenth century , in December 1783 , King George III selected William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister when he was only twenty-four years of age , and he remained in office throughout the troublesome years of the French Revolution which lasted from 1787 to 1799 . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know , ’ said Sir George , ‘ that up to the eighteenth century the major industry in this part of the world was rabbit-warrening ? |
| 4 | Buckmaster parked the Volvo in the underground garage , used the special key to open the executive elevator door , ascended to the eighteenth floor . |
| 5 | Stoneywood Mill dates back to the eighteenth century , and is now part of the Wiggins Teape Group . |
| 6 | This had several squares of very heavy , dark grey woollen cloth which Mum told me came from her own great grandmother 's cloak , so presumably could well have dated back to the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 8 | The Dr Carlo Croce collection of over sixty Italian paintings from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries concentrates on the Baroque . |
| 9 | Under the supervision of Sandra Moschini of the Venice Soprintendenza ai Beni artistici e storici and designer Mario Semino , the most important pieces are now on show in two rooms , the first covering medieval work with scratched decoration , the second from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century including the collection 's maiolica . |
| 10 | Other pieces , scattered over Israel in various universities and research institutes , date from 1300 BC to the eighteenth century , shedding light on Egyptian , Roman and early Christian history . |
| 11 | It could ( in theory at least ) have recommended a return to the eighteenth century position , illustrated by the Lord Chief Justice when he expressed hope that ‘ the worst of the offending sections ’ in Acts of Parliament be repealed or amended . |
| 12 | The final stage of the programme will conclude with the opening in 1994 of around fifty more rooms in the north wing , devoted to the eighteenth , nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | The first two are particularly relevant to the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Many tendencies in ‘ commercial ’ nineteenth-century music which Adorno singles out for criticism — ‘ mechanical ’ , formulate composition , for instance , or ‘ effects ’ writing such as that of the piano virtuosi , or the interest in sheer sound — can be traced back , as he himself is aware , to the eighteenth century — to dance music , operatic virtuosity , the early symphonies , and so on . |
| 15 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |
| 16 | Prior to the eighteenth century the Europeans seem to have handled the ethnographic aspects of these dilemmas without much difficulty . |
| 17 | The later development of the hierarchy , a development which continued down to the eighteenth century , was essentially no more than an elaboration of the basic principles set out in the Kanunname . |
| 18 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 20 | The prevailing viewpoint on the history of childhood is that , prior to the eighteenth century , there was no concept of childhood and little intimacy between parent and child . |
| 21 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 22 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 23 | Guinness has a long standing tradition of community involvement dating back to the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | between the sixteenth to the eighteenth of April . |
| 25 | Drummond ( 71 ) and Marchbank ( 72 ) each had five birdies and Andrew Oldcorn , who won the Tour Espania Masters in Cadiz , managed six in his 70 including a hat-trick of 3s from the sixteenth to the eighteenth . |
| 26 | It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated |
| 27 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |
| 28 | this is up to the eighteenth ah , ah , this is up to the eighteenth |
| 29 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 30 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |