Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 2 | The enormous relative growth of older age-groups in the twentieth century is primarily due to the decline of fertility which began in the nineteenth ( Chapters 6 and 13 ) . |
| 3 | The latter , a uniquely interesting people distinct from all their neighbours both physically and culturally , were driven out of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin by the Russo-Japanese territorial conflicts which began in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Edward Thompson maintains that for a variety of reasons traditional pursuits were strongly resilient through the eighteenth century and were weakened only by forces which developed in the nineteenth . |
| 5 | The founder of this method , which thrived in the nineteenth century , was Auguste Comte.l We will first consider the nature of Comte 's thought and then examine its development by Durkheim . |
| 6 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Though much new woodland was planted , the overall result was a major reduction in the area under trees which continued into the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |