Example sentences of "part [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.

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1 Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century .
2 Part of a 15th century purse frame .
3 Splendid collection of historic Polish material — paintings , books documents , arms and armour — housed in a fine late 17th century house and in part of a 12th century manor house .
4 The second item could be part of a 2nd century trumpet brooch or earring .
5 Item No 4 : is part of an 18th century watch-key .
6 Centre part of an 18th century watch seal , and impression
7 Nevertheless , by the latter part of the fifth century BC there was a greater general awareness of the significance of time than there had been previously .
8 Finds of Greek pottery at Bet-Zur on the road from Jerusalem to Hebron are signs of brisk trade in the first part of the fifth century .
9 Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place .
10 Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century .
11 Towards the latter part of the first century , Rome 's presiding cleric named Clement wrote on behalf of his church to remonstrate with the Corinthian Christians who had ejected clergy without either financial or charismatic endowment in favour of a fresh lot ; Clement apologized not for intervening but for not having acted sooner .
12 According to some experts , the first bridge , of stone , was built in the early part of the 15th century by a York merchant , but another school of thought suggests an earlier date , declaring that it was mentioned in the reign of Edward III .
13 Chiswick in the early part of the 19th century
14 During the 18th century , there were at least fourteen mills on the Painswick Stream and its tributaries , rising to thirty by the first part of the 19th century .
15 By the early part of the 19th century , the business had grown to quite a sizeable concern , and consisted of scribbling and burling shops , wool lofts , a dye house , as well as a rack teaze and Webb 's substantial home .
16 It dates from the early part of the 19th century and was worked around the 1850s by Allaway and Henry Crawshay , the latter probably having connections with William Crawshay of Camp Mill , at Soudley .
17 It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Tewkesbury 's commercial decline began for , at the time of building of Healing 's substantial mills , many of the smaller cottage-based trades disappeared .
18 It has been rebuilt and extended on many occasions with the passing centuries , much of the present buildings dating from the middle part of the 19th century .
19 During the latter part of the 19th century , the mill was used by the Lane family in connection with their edge-tool business in Cirencester .
20 Much of the machinery dates from the latter part of the 19th century , as evidenced by the extensive use of iron parts .
21 Bourton 's other mill was nearer the centre and played an active role from the early part of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War .
22 During the latter part of the 19th century the Royal College of Chemistry ( subsequently retitled the Royal College of Science ) and the Royal School of Mines moved to the site from their previous buildings in the West End and the City and Guilds Institute was built there .
23 In the early part of the 19th century accurate maps of the British Isles were being produced by the Ordnance Survey .
24 A third contrasting example of collectivity can be found in the Scottish Trades Councils in the latter part of the 19th Century , which formed a much stronger focus for working class politics than national trades unions at that time .
25 It appears to reflect a course of practice , developed during the latter part of the 19th century , to abstain from questioning , not after charge , but after the suspect had been taken into custody ; and it appears that in general any evidence obtained from such questioning was regarded as inadmissible : see Archbold 's Criminal Pleading Evidence & Practice , 28th ed. ( 1931 ) , p. 407 .
26 There has been a tariff among the judges since the latter part of the 19th century .
27 Another Mitchell known as " Puddin " was for many years tree planter in the village and at the later part of the 19th century planted trees around the cemetery , always maintaining he was one short , and if one takes the trouble to look there is a gap still awaiting the missing tree .
28 It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’
29 There were Jewish communities of some size in Sicyon , Sparta , Delos , Gos and Rhodes in the second part of the second century B.C. In 139 B.C. Jews were thrown out of Rome for obnoxious religious propaganda ( Valerius Maximus 1.3.3 ) .
30 These functions have been well carried out by Baedeker guides since the foundation of the German firm in the first part of the nineteenth century .
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