Example sentences of "[prep] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medicine continues to be a very powerful system of knowledge , and although there are many differences between nineteenth century and twentieth century medicine , there is still at its heart a view of the body ( both male and female ) as a repository for disease . |
| 2 | Foxe 's Book of Martyrs was in the old library , a one-volume edition for nineteenth century children with coloured illustrations and the text pruned to a litany of death by flame . |
| 3 | In their original context both stories had a different significance , but it was as impossible for fourteenth century Christians to experience the Christian revelation in the same way as the first Christians as it is for us today . |
| 4 | Gives the impression of being so contemporary but really plays out themes of nineteenth century , badies , goodies , etc . |
| 5 | Poetry , of course , can never become music , despite the dream of nineteenth century symbolists , since , as Eliot 's Sweeney put it , ‘ I got ta use words when I talk to you . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 7 | It also throws light on the guilt-feeling associated with sex , which is a distinguishing mark of nineteenth century morality . |
| 8 | Even the ‘ nightwatchman ’ state of nineteenth century England did this , but not as an active and necessary persona . |
| 9 | A group of nineteenth century greeting cards and valentines , types of ephemera now a popular field of collecting . |
| 10 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 11 | The role of the Corporation as art patron is one of the exhibition 's themes , and works on show include paintings acquired by Alderman John Boydell ( a print publisher in his own right ) in the late eighteenth century ; a selection of nineteenth century paintings from the donation made by Charles Gassiot in 1902 ; Landseer 's ‘ The First Leap ’ ( 1829 ) ; Alma-Tadema 's ‘ The Wine Shop ’ ( 1873 ) ; and works by Holman Hunt , Dyce , Lord Leighton , Millais and Rossetti . |
| 12 | The modernization and industrialization of nineteenth century Britain changed the population map . |
| 13 | In 1993 , six new galleries in the centre block will be open for the display of nineteenth century French art ( some already shown ) and our growing collection of contemporary art . |
| 14 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 15 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 16 | But this could be seen as simply a more than usually coherent version of a familiar Austro-German interpretation of nineteenth century music history , which sets an over-privileged Viennese tradition at its normative centre . |
| 17 | The great achievements of nineteenth century science — atomism , energetics , evolution , the wave theory of light — were highly theoretical , depending upon conjecture and then search for evidence . |
| 18 | For example , ‘ A collection of nineteenth century French literature ’ would be A7E7 ; ‘ English medieval fiction ’ would attract the notation A2C4E2 . |
| 19 | Anthony Smith ( 1971 , pp. 5–9 ) , in his general study of the subject , observes that ‘ The prevailing image of nationalism in the West today is mainly negative ’ , and he continues by saying that this negative evaluation ‘ contrasts with the favourable attitude of nineteenth century liberals and radicals , and later conservatives , towards the doctrine of national self-determination ’ . |
| 20 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 21 | The poor quality of nineteenth century working class housing , particularly that occupied by lower paid workers , reflected the significant gap between the cost of decent accommodation and the price that many workers could afford to pay . |
| 22 | Le Corbusier 's admonitions echo much of nineteenth century morality in terms of emphasis on order and health , and by inference cleanliness . |
| 23 | It does n't hold land in order to allow ideologues to impose their views on our tenants and impose it through a form of nineteenth century landlordism . |
| 24 | There are some sort of public schools survivors groups which have been set up recently and um it 's interesting that this business of being strong and silent um is a kind of is a kind of nineteenth century hangover and I think it affects men and I think it affects women too to some extent . |
| 25 | 3 It was selected by three established embroiderers , Polly Binns , Hannah Frew Patterson MBE , and Audrey Walker , ( with Linda Theophilus , from the Crafts Council ) , and included examples of 17th–19th century embroidery alongside a survey of key 20th century developments . |
| 26 | The historical , included a number of 17th–19th century items from the Embroiderers ' Guild collection , which were displayed alongside specific contemporary works . |
| 27 | The earliest general discussions that I know of are in the works of 17th century philosopher , René Descartes , Rules for the Direction of the Mind and Discours de la Méthode . |
| 28 | The difficulty was compounded by the new knowledge that was becoming available through the flowering of 17th century science . |
| 29 | Famous painted ceilings and a fine collection of 17th century paintings . |
| 30 | Begun in 1456 , it was granted to Thomas Sackville by Queen Elizabeth I. The house contains one of the most important collections of 17th century furniture in the world . |