Example sentences of "[coord] [art] nineteenth " in BNC.

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1 These quirks of fate , combined with Jane Brown 's own enthusiasms ( she is the author of a fine book on the Lutyens-Jekyll partnership ) have resulted in a narrative in which the gardens of the Arts and Crafts movement , a relatively short period between 1890-1914 , get twice the space of the gardens of either the eighteenth or the nineteenth century .
2 One could then find out what else was available on emigration , or on Cornish tin-miners , or on southern Wisconsin , or the nineteenth century , or any permutation of two or more in relation to other topics , such as the design of houses or the techniques of mining , or at another level of student understanding , or another format entirely .
3 My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent .
4 The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) .
5 Ridge and furrow were formed any time between the early Middle Ages and the nineteenth century , as a result of ploughing up and down fields in parallel lines .
6 While conveying the Mexican attitude to the artefacts as items of great aesthetic value , the curator Andrew Dempsey also examines the various reactions to Pre-Columbian art after the Spanish conquest and the nineteenth century 's interest in Mayan culture at the expense of more ‘ primitive ’ ones such as the Olmec .
7 But in a sense Havelock Ellis was right , for female sexuality was seen as more problematic in Victorian ideology than was male , and the nineteenth century saw the development of a host of often contradictory definitions of female sexuality .
8 And indeed in the early part of this century and the nineteenth century elections have been held on Monday , Wednesday Tuesday never a Friday , never a Saturday , never a Sunday .
9 Adorno sees the prevalence of conventions and repetitive norms in twentieth-century popular music against the background of a musical tradition — European bourgeois art music of the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries — which evolved in a strongly non -schematic direction .
10 You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled .
11 Since science is public knowledge , it is really printed pictures that will most interest us ; and the nineteenth century saw the appearance of a series of new techniques which changed the appearance of scientific books radically .
12 At all times , but increasingly in the later eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries , new techniques have been brought in by observing their use elsewhere what would now be unkindly called industrial espionage — and sometimes by tempting away workmen .
13 First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries .
14 Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way .
15 ‘ Positive ’ science , operating on objective and ascertained facts , connected by rigid links of cause and effect , and producing uniform , invariant general ‘ laws ’ beyond query or wilful modification , was the master-key to the universe , and the nineteenth century possessed it .
16 But the nineteenth century demonstrates it as a scientific fact .
17 But the nineteenth century was also to see more radical questioning of this assumption about the proper approach to the matter . )
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