Example sentences of "and [verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 2 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 4 | situated to the north of Pall Mall near St James 's Palace , central London , and built in the seventeenth century on the site of the old St James 's Fields . |
| 5 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 6 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 7 | In the afternoon you will drive to Bhadgaon , 4,600 feet above sea level and founded in the 9th century . |
| 8 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 9 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | Built in 1490 and reconstructed in the sixteenth century , this picturesque dwelling was reputedly occupied by the great Protestant Reformer from 1561 to 1572 . |
| 11 | [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ] |
| 12 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 13 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 14 | This opinion , which had a long Christian ancestry , was still widely held and propagated in the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 16 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 17 | This tradition goes back at least to Herder and Lessing in the eighteenth century ; and it continues beyond Nietzsche to Johannes Volkelt and Bertolt Brecht in our own time . |
| 18 | My own favourite example concerns the determination of the atomic and molecular weights of naturally occurring elements and compounds in the nineteenth century . |