Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route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 . |
| 7 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The temple had been built in the 10th century BC as an expression of the Kingship of Solomon in all his glory . |
| 11 | Only two others have been discovered in North America , and they had been opened in the 18th century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 15 | They appear to have been settled in the seventh century in areas now known as Kosovo , Montenegro and Bosnia . |
| 16 | Anorexia is a relatively modern illness er the first descriptions of it are found in the nineteenth century and today it 's er by no means an uncommon illness in er mainly in young women , very occasionally in men , but , but er y it 's more or less safe to say it 's er it 's a disease of er women and almost always younger women . |
| 17 | One church which has been restored in the present century , belonged to the Augustinian order of white canons . |
| 18 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 19 | Accordingly , it is necessary to define what should be considered as bribery in the context of the period , rather than as it might be regarded in the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Historically , Karajan is a conductor of pivotal significance , steeped as a child and as a young man in music-making of the great Austro-German tradition , but the first great conductor to be reared in the twentieth century 's brave new technological age . |
| 21 | The empire of Charlemagne was divided in the ninth century , and its eastern division came to be dominated in the tenth century by the now Christianized Saxons . |
| 22 | Completed in 1876 , the hotel was extolled in its day — one commentator called it ‘ the most perfect in every possible respect in the world ’ — and came to be vilified in the twentieth century as a monument to Victorian bad taste . |
| 23 | To meet this demand springs began to be used in the fifteenth century in place of weights as the source of motive power in clocks . |
| 24 | How many of these obligations could still be demanded in the seventh century , we do not know , although there are references to tax concessions granted to Tours by Dagobert I ( 623/9 — 39 ) , to the city of Bourges by Clovis II ( 634 – 57 ) , and to families exposing children in order to avoid public exactions in the Life of his queen , Balthild . |
| 25 | It had to be rediscovered in the 18th century . |
| 26 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |
| 27 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 28 | This was to be the start of a long debate which would be continued in the seventh century with the growth of concessions of immunity from episcopal intervention to particular monastic foundations . |
| 29 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 30 | He accepts the evidence that there has been a drying-out in the continental interiors affecting both the United States and the Soviet Union and then qualifies his acceptance by suggesting that it will be remedied in the next century by greater precipitation . |