Example sentences of "[prep] [art] nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1939 , for instance , in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of ‘ the stilted language that then passed for ‘ good English ’ in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles , Newbolt , the backwash of Lionel Johnson , Fred Manning , the Quarterlies and the rest of ‘ em ’ . |
| 2 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 3 | This is not surprising , for the nineteenth century was an age which loved spectacle , in its paintings , in its theatre , and in its buildings . |
| 4 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 5 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 6 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 8 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 9 | Some of these high estimates for the nineteenth century , which put mean age at menarche higher than in previous periods , have been questioned ( Bullough 1981 ) . |
| 10 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |
| 11 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |
| 12 | our party 's we 've arranged our Christmas party for our residents for the nineteenth of |
| 13 | To resolve the dilemma they must piece together the sort of documentary and pictorial evidence that is usually plentifully available for the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 15 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 16 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 17 | During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage . |
| 18 | During the nineteenth century a numbering system was standardised in Britain . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During the nineteenth century , with improvements in communications , these traditions were modified by the consequently increased sensitivity to changing preferences in architectural styles . |
| 21 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 22 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 23 | Originally it was used to summon Farnborough children to school , when the latter was housed in the earliest part of the house during the nineteenth century : the low bit on the west side which is now the kitchen . |
| 24 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 25 | This process continued during the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | When , during the nineteenth century , there was briefly a sharply rising proportion of widowed older people living With relatives , this was above all in the cotton and pottery towns , where married women factory workers were exceptionally common . |
| 27 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 28 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | The rail excursion , popularized by Thomas Cook during the nineteenth century , continued into the twentieth : jaunty boaters adorn Londoners bound for the seaside , Waterloo station , May 1912 . |
| 30 | During the nineteenth century , Leeds increased its population from 53,000 to nearly half a million , and Bradford 's growth rate was even greater . |