Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] century " in BNC.
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1 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
2 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
3 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
4 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
5 | It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated |
6 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
7 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
8 | The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) . |
9 | The recorded history of the church goes back to the mid-12th century , and in this study the Author describes church life in Foleshill from the outbreak of World War Two , right through to the restoration of the Old Church ( as it is known locally ) . |
10 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
11 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
12 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
13 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |
14 | Anthropology as an organized subject goes back to the mid-nineteenth century [ Fortes 1969:6 , following Kroeber ] and was closely associated with the study of evolution . |
15 | The system goes back to the sixth century , when the founder of the Persian Empire , the great Cyrus , presented seven cities in northern Anatolia to Pytharchos ( see p. 18 ; FGrHist . |
16 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
17 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
18 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
19 | The Brularts , who held the rank of Marquis of Sillery and Marquis of Puisieulx , were a winemaking family whose reputation goes back to the sixteenth century . |
20 | ‘ The de Sciorto name and title goes back to the sixteenth century . |
21 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
22 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
23 | This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation . |
24 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
25 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
26 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
27 | An assessment of those walls , banks and groynes , published last year by the Department of the Environment , found that ‘ many go back to the 19th century and so , not withstanding that over £2 million per year is spent by the district councils on maintenance , heavy expenditure on renewals continues to be needed ’ . |
28 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
29 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
30 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |