Example sentences of "from [art] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 2 | Victim Martin Baxendale , 19 , a sales manager , was walking away from the scene of the first explosion when the second device went off . |
| 3 | His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years . |
| 4 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |
| 5 | From the middle of the nineteenth century , Glasgow 's population rocketed , to make it Britain 's third largest city , and its docks and shipyards stretched westward from the Govan and Clydebank districts towards the estuary as far as Port Glasgow and Greenock ( q.v . ) . |
| 6 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 7 | From the middle of the nineteenth century , the town had spread east towards the railway and , after the war , crossed over it ; now it had flooded over the land between the railway and the new by-pass . |
| 8 | Evidence from the middle of the nineteenth century , in Anderson 's study of Preston , indicates that older people were involved in structures of family support very much on a reciprocal basis . |
| 9 | The proportion of local authority income deriving from central government grants grew steadily from the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | There appears to be a very marked increase of every kind of independent cultural formation from the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby . |
| 12 | Did there emerge in the twentieth century a distinctive network of Asian capital , embracing Chinese , Indian and Japanese capitalists , distinct from the European network which had dominated South East Asia from the middle of the nineteenth century ? |
| 13 | Further , an examination of the impact of Japan 's industrialization on the industrialization of twentieth century South East Asia will identify the importance of the Asian capitalist network in shaping the modern economic growth of the region , as well as some of the ‘ missed opportunities ’ which occurred under European rule from the middle of the nineteenth century : it must also be said that the penetration of Japanese manufactures into South East Asia had destructive as well as constructive implications for the South East Asian economies . |
| 14 | In China , the European trading houses began to employ local Chinese to act as their agents from the middle of the nineteenth century , and the term began to be attached to those who would serve the interests of the foreigner before the interests of their co-nationals . |
| 15 | But such tenancies were very often extremely informal , as those devoted to the cause of improving the state of agriculture in England emphasised with growing intensity from the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | International relations in Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the First World War were more and more influenced by several factors which , if not always new , were growing rapidly in importance . |
| 17 | These corps arose from the middle of the nineteenth century in response to the chronic insecurity caused by a Spanish version of the ‘ spoils system ’ : each change of government would lead to the replacement of all those appointed under the previous government by individuals loyal to the new party in power . |
| 18 | From the middle of the thirteenth century they were allowed to deduct for themselves a fixed salary out of the Forest revenues they collected — 100 marks a year for the Justice of the Forest north of Trent , and £100 for his colleague south of it . |
| 19 | Britain 's growing involvement in the highly profitable slave trade from the middle of the seventeenth century gave further impetus to the spread of racist caricatures and subsequently to the developments of the more systematic racial classifications and doctrines of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , which added a pseudo-scientific legitimation to earlier myths ( Banton and Harwood , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number . |
| 21 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 22 | Both had the broadly similar functions of recording , in different ways , payments into and out of the Exchequer of Receipt ; but from the middle of the sixteenth century the older office , the Clerkship of the Pells , was being encroached upon by the Writer of the Tallies . |
| 23 | The iron industry , centred in the Wealden woods , was steadily changing the face of the landscape in this region from the middle of the sixteenth century onwards , and a good deal remains to be seen by the historically minded traveller . |
| 24 | From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police . |
| 25 | At this village off the A40 south of Fishguard is the Tregwynt Woollen Mill , which dates from the middle of the eighteenth century and has been in continuous production of woollen yarns since then . |
| 26 | Traditional local government arrangements came under increasing pressure from the continuing industrialisation that gathered momentum from the middle of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The British ran the Indian subcontinent for 200 years , from the middle of the eighteenth century through World War II without making any fundamental changes in organization structure or administrative policy . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , from the middle of the eighteenth century , the process of enclosure of the Midland open fields developed apace and in a relatively short time produced the landscape that Professor Hoskins describes so w–ell . |
| 29 | Britain underwent what has been popularly referred to as an industrial revolution in the period from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth . |
| 30 | The old Welsh laws , dating from the middle of the tenth century , make it clear that the oxen were not to be used in the afternoon ; and as Seebohm points out a cyvar ( or co-ploughing , where different people contributed different members of the ox-team and the plough itself ) ended at noon . |