Example sentences of "write [prep] the [adj] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 2 | Ordeals had taken place in or close to churches — the chronicler , Eadmer , writes in the early twelfth century of ordeals being conducted in the baptistery at the east end of Canterbury cathedral where former archbishops were buried — and so confused the ecclesiastical and the secular law , the law of the Church and the law of the State . |
| 3 | Then came the most popular of the late medieval works , Walter Bower 's Scotichronicon , written in the mid fifteenth century , heavily dependent on Fordun , and heavily nationalist . |
| 4 | The first known secular literature in Slovene was composed of the baroque poems of an Augustinian friar , Marko Pohlin , written in the mid eighteenth century . |
| 5 | At Beverley , where John of Beverley was bishop of York throughout the reign , Osred was remembered for his benefactions ; but the picture given in Aethelwulf 's De Abbatibus , written in the early ninth century , is of an uncontrollable youth who slew many of his nobles and drove others to seek refuge in monastic life . |
| 6 | G. H. Burton considered this was reminiscent of Coleridge 's political satire , Recantation , Illustrated by the Story of the Mad Ox , written in the early nineteenth century . |
| 7 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 8 | Justin Simpson , in his Historical Sketches in the Stamford Mercury written in the late nineteenth century , reflects that ‘ such a satisfactory and speedy termination to a law suit rarely falls to the lot of man to witness in these degenerate days ’ . |
| 9 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 10 | In September 1848 Moscow University 's Society of Russian History and Antiquities published a translation of Giles Fletcher 's Of the Russe Commonwealth , a description of Muscovy written in the late sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Historians who write about the late 20th century in the late 21st century will read all the complaints about industrial society destroying individuality and identities . |
| 12 | We have no way of measuring the immediate impact of this writing on Jewish readers because we have no document we can safely date about 300 B.C. But if it is true that Kohelet , Ecclesiastes , wrote in the early third century B.C. , one must acknowledge that at least one of the Jewish sages was not prepared to play the part the Greeks had assigned to him . |
| 13 | A secretary inevitably had access to highly confidential information : as Pecquet wrote in the early eighteenth century , " silence , loyalty and secrecy should reign in every secretariat " . |
| 14 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |