Example sentences of "century [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the harnessing of water-power for mills and river navigation interlinked with a new system of canals laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution . |
| 2 | Over the centuries the title of Count has passed from family to family as old dynasties withered away , intermarried or perished in battle . |
| 3 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 4 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 5 | Over the centuries the age of steam gave way to electricity , wooden casks changed places with metal kegs , horse drays yielded to motor lorries , barges to road tankers . |
| 6 | Because these cycles predate by centuries the era of realism , Barth has managed to side-step the issue of narrative truth and retain some notion of the marvellous . |
| 7 | The method today is with beaters and guns , but in the 18th and 19th centuries the sound of horn and hounds was often heard about the village . |
| 8 | Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance . |
| 9 | Under their stewardship and that of their descendants , development of the lead-bearing fields expanded until by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of lead-mining in the Dales had become established . |
| 10 | For centuries the science of cooking has intrigued and occupied the minds of philosophers to kings . |
| 11 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 12 | In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power . |
| 13 | By the mid eighteenth century the rise of tin and copper mining had in any event produced a precarious balance between local grain supplies and a growing population . |
| 14 | Whereas choice theories imagine a market full of independent traders , who make isolated purposive exchanges , interests theories recognize that in the twentieth century the division of labour has become much more fragmented . |
| 15 | From the mid nineteenth century the pace of change in Russia rapidly accelerated . |
| 16 | In the thirteenth century the King of france , abetted by a weak Pope , very brutally suppressed the Order of Templars and appropriated their enormous wealth . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century the field of concern for architecture broadened to the everyday living environment ; housing for example was no longer a question of designing a single house , or even a group , but a whole estate or neighbourhood . |
| 18 | Although remote rural areas remained unaffected , by the middle of the seventeenth century the rebirth of classicism had begun to transform the face of England . |
| 19 | Was the seventh century the date of origin of such estates , or were they in some way related to earlier land arrangements ? |
| 20 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 21 | In the eighteenth century the majority of garden roses flowered for only about six weeks from the middle of June until the end of July . |
| 22 | By the end of the century the link between state service and landed wealth had become markedly weaker : even among the highest ranks of the Civil Service , over 70 per cent of the personnel were landless , and the proportion was greater still in the officer corps . |
| 23 | Roy Porter maintains , however , that in the eighteenth century the growth of fashion brought with it a new standard of beauty which emphasized the artificial , so that many Georgians feared a civilization of facades . |
| 24 | By the early twentieth century the focus of activity was just west of the River Trent , especially in the area between Doncaster and Nottingham ( Griffin , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | In the twentieth century the focus of government policy shifted from the judiciary to the police , and few changes were made in the structure or procedure of the courts . |
| 26 | But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence . |
| 27 | In the later decades of the century the professor of entomology at Oxford , E. B. Poulton ( 1856–1943 ) , made extensive studies of animal coloration , which he explained in Darwinian terms . |
| 28 | In the nineteenth century the amount of land devoted to coconut cultivation expanded sharply , especially in Chilaw and Kurunagala districts . |
| 29 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 30 | ‘ Because of her role in reproduction , woman is regarded as a special case , a deviation from the norm represented by the male … since the 19th century the science of gynaecology has legitimised this view . ’ |