Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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1 | FOR reasons that go deep into its past , Hungary has not done well out of the twentieth century . |
2 | Jim is a hard hitting sort of individual who knows where he is going in racing and he has brought Down Royal , I feel , out of the 17th century into the 20th — not quite the 21st — in a matter of a couple of years . |
3 | 1985 : 1206 ) : ( 191 ) As the novels and tales lead out of the nineteenth century and into our own , we are made to feel more of the limited , contingent validity of moral claims and of collaborative endeavour . |
4 | Science clambered out of the 19th century more respected than anything else around . |
5 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
6 | Grindingly backward , it 's hardly moved out of the 19th century . |
7 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
8 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
9 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
10 | The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades . |
11 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
12 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
13 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
14 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
15 | Likewise , was n't hygiene something Lord Lister and others sorted out in the 19th century ? |
16 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |
17 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
18 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
19 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
20 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |