Example sentences of "from [art] mid-nineteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 2 | Spanish and Portuguese rule had been overthrown before the arrival of the railway , and the building of Latin American lines was to become the classic expression of the informal imperialism of Britain and the United States which penetrated the region from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 3 | The introduction of labour-saving agricultural machinery to reduce wage costs began in earnest from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 4 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 5 | A key factor here was the campaign for the improvement of the social position of doctors from the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Distinct class variations could be observed , and from the mid-nineteenth century the existence of some form of class differentiation in family size had come to be accepted by most writers on the subject ; by the census of 1911 the difference in the fertility of certain groups was clearly marked . |
| 7 | As we know , the history of medical politics from the mid-nineteenth century witnessed a growing feminist presence in official debates over sex . |
| 8 | The Crown Agents , for example , date from the mid-nineteenth century , the Development Commission was set up in 1909 and the Horserace Totalisator Board ( the Tote ) goes back to 1928 . |
| 9 | These single-shot service weapons , dating from the mid-nineteenth century and firing a lead bullet which inflicted appalling wounds , had been exported to Abyssinia in great numbers by the French . |
| 10 | South East Asia has been an area of the most dramatic expansion of exports of primary products from the mid-nineteenth century : export expansion was the region 's principal response to Western penetration . |
| 11 | The aim of the project is to study the issue of civil rights and individual liberties in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century to 1917 . |
| 12 | A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states . |
| 13 | A change is also detected from a mid-nineteenth century optimism that a free economy left to itself would eventually generate sufficient wealth to solve many problems , to pessimism about whether the British economy was capable of such sustained progress . |