Example sentences of "which [verb] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
| 2 | To subvert them would be to incite peasant revolts even more threatening than those which punctuated the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | She wanted clothes which reflected the 19th century Australian outlaw 's wild and woolly look , and hired the latest member of her design team , Ian McMaugh , to provide it . |
| 4 | On Nov. 27 part of Vienna 's Hofburg palace , where the Ausrian Hapsburg monarchs had lived , was burnt down in a fire which destroyed the 18th century Redoutensaal where the 1979 SALT treaty was signed . |
| 5 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) . |