Example sentences of "as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However as the nineteenth century proceeded , even the division of the spheres of government — the separation of internal and external policy — became increasingly difficult to maintain . |
| 2 | However , as the nineteenth century proceeded , two developments took place . |
| 3 | As the nineteenth century progressed , German nationalism became increasingly the blunt instrument with which Austro-Hungary attempted to bludgeon Bohemia and Moravia into quiescence , while in Slovakia the Hungarian ruling caste pursued a policy of Magyarisation . |
| 4 | As the nineteenth century progressed , Austro-Hungary took refuge in reaction at home and adventurism abroad in an effort to contain the centrifugal forces which eventually blew it , and much of Europe , apart . |
| 5 | This seasonal element in warfare persisted as late as the nineteenth century , but in the period of Charles it was often impossible to wage war in the winter , both because of the weather , and because of the basic necessity to harvest crops in autumn for survival of the people . |
| 6 | The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig , reached from sea to sea , and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | But German Romanticism could not sustain itself against the blandishments of urban existence , and as the nineteenth century progressed the movement lapsed into sentiment and kitsch — the absolute artistic opportunism that insisted on ‘ moving ’ people emotionally . |
| 8 | There was a need for a new source of wealth , and as the nineteenth century advanced this was provided by the tourist industry . |
| 9 | As the nineteenth century closed significant sections of cooperative thought turned to representation , largely as a response to the experience of local government and particularly the trade unions : |
| 10 | What Americans came to call ‘ the movies ’ and what in Britain was referred to as ‘ the pictures ’ had emerged out of a complex and distinctive metropolitan and urban culture which was very much achieving its quiddity as the nineteenth century came to a close . |
| 11 | As the nineteenth century progressed these three groups came closer together . |
| 12 | As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth , two related changes began to alter the relationship between the upper classes and the ownership of the means of production . |
| 13 | Challenging problems faced physicists , then , as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth , problems calling for new speculative hypotheses designed to overcome these problems in a progressive way . |
| 14 | As the nineteenth century proceeded , there was no lack of volunteers to promote such benevolent attentions . |
| 15 | However , it is noteworthy that even as late as the nineteenth century , the courts were still discussing whether , in the case of a young girl , there was penetration sufficient to constitute rape where the hymen remained intact . |
| 16 | Even these mines , though , were unable to escape the serious effects of the continual decline in copper prices as the nineteenth century drew to a close . |
| 17 | If only for this reason , it was inevitable , as the nineteenth century wore on , that the sense of purpose once associated with German Hellenism must be lost . |
| 18 | It was not simply a matter of counter action , for the chapel with its meetings , services , love-feasts , etc. became in itself a centre of non-work-time activities and as the nineteenth century advanced , a deliberate purveyor of counter attraction . |
| 19 | Frequently , as the nineteenth century went on , there was also a department concerned with essentially legal issues such as naturalisation and extradition , and international legal disputes ; the French ministry had such a bureau des contentieux for much of the century and the Sardinian and later Italian one had a consiglio del contenzioso diplomatico from 1856 onwards . |
| 20 | Egypt itself had been penetrated by Greeks as early as the seventh century , when Ionian and Karian mercenaries were hired by the Saite pharaohs . |
| 21 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 22 | The alarm bells began ringing as early as the seventh minute when Albert Craig struck the post from a narrow angle after capitalising on a moment 's hesitation in the home defence . |
| 23 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 24 | It will be argued that when the second source is threatened as well as the first , the power to coerce can devolve on the civil sphere in a substantive way . |
| 25 | The fact of these men 's having been guided argues a body of local botanical knowledge as early as the first part of the 17th century . |
| 26 | But the stars soon lost their sheen and went out as the first strain of light eased away the darkness . |
| 27 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 28 | At issue yesterday — the Sejm deputies prudently decided to adjourn their debate until Monday — as the first spoonful of the bitter economic medicine announced this week to restore a market economy ‘ in the swiftest possible way ’ . |
| 29 | Bradford 's Yorkshire Cup semi-final replay against Halifax , if it is half as good as the first game at Thrum Hall , will be the most keenly contested of tomorrow 's fixtures . |
| 30 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |