Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of post-mortem decomposition has been traced through the ninth century . |
| 2 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 3 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 4 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 5 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 6 | Coel and that the Ayrshire legend has been mis-placed in the 8th century ; it is possible also that Coilus was a descendant of Coel ; we will never know . |
| 7 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 8 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route by which cattle from Scotland and the North of England reached the Midland pastures and London : hence its later name of The Drift . |
| 9 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 10 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 11 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 12 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 13 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 14 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 15 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 16 | The temple had been built in the 10th century BC as an expression of the Kingship of Solomon in all his glory . |
| 17 | The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century . |
| 18 | But if you are looking for a 21st century Polo , you will have to wait at least three years until the genuinely all-new one . |
| 19 | Another distinctive type of patinated metalwork , known as bidri , has been made since the seventeenth century or earlier and is produced in India to this day ( fig. 5.17 ) . |
| 20 | The majority are dated to the seventh century , the exception being that from Shrivenham ( Oxfordshire ) which dates to the second half of the sixth century or later ( pers. comm . |
| 21 | He had ten varieties of carrot in the ground when I visited , including a purple carrot that has not been grown since the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 23 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 24 | For the Victoria and Albert exhibition , ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , Peter Reid compiled a list of more than 1,200 houses that had been demolished in the preceding century . |
| 25 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 26 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 27 | Several hundred have been produced since the 18th century explorers brought more foreign languages into contact — and friction . |
| 28 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 29 | The Book of Cupid , his one surviving work , is a piece of sufficient merit to have been thought until the nineteenth century to have been written by his friend Geoffrey Chaucer [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | The monastery had been founded in the fourth century , not long after the death of St Paul the Egyptian who , like his contemporary Antony , had been a desert ascetic . |