Example sentences of "of [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 2 | Trade between Leith and Hull can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th Century when the Hull and Leith Shipping Company was formed . |
| 3 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 4 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 5 | The further expansion of Champagne 's vineyards suffered a temporary set-back in the early part of the fifteenth century when the old war with the English was resumed . |
| 6 | The church was demolished towards the end of the last century when the new road was laid down , and only the rescued façade was wholly retained . |
| 7 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 8 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |
| 10 | The proportion of the population over pensionable age is projected to remain more or less level between now and the end of the century , indeed to decline somewhat around the turn of the century and then to rise again in the early years of the twenty-first century when the larger birth cohorts of the war and post-war years move into their sixties ( see figure 5.1 ) . |