Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 2 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 3 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 4 | The Schlosspark at Donaueschingen was laid out for the princes of Fürstenberg in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | Henry was one of the most remarkable princes of Germany in the twelfth century . |
| 7 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 8 | The strategy , in evidence in the display of Auerbach 's work , effectively refuses the notion , which in Britain has had particularly powerful influence as a result of the writings of Carlyle in the last century , underpins the labelling of portraits in exhibitions ( such as The Swagger Portrait , Tate Gallery 1992 ) and in institutions like the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 9 | Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD . |
| 10 | Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles . |
| 11 | Like many men of the muirlands and remote districts of Ayrshire in the 17th century , John was a fervent opponent of the imposition of Episcopacy on to the Scottish Kirk . |
| 12 | In his study of The City of Worcester in the Sixteenth Century ( 1973 ) Dr Alan Dyer has shown that Worcester was far more reliant upon a single trade than most Elizabethan towns , certainly much more so than Leicester . |
| 13 | Berwick was the principal trading city of Scotland in the thirteenth century ; but when King Alexander III fell from his horse near Kinghorn in Fife , on 19 March 1286 , Scotland , without an obvious heir to the throne , fell also : into a 300-year nightmare of almost continual conflict with England . |
| 14 | A single track divides North Uist , from north to south , built in 1845 to provide employment during the terrible potato famine that ravaged Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 16 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 17 | the continuation of Oxford Street ( now Bayswater Road , west London ) was the main highway from London to the west of England in the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | As that implies , Palladian architecture , which changed the face of England in the eighteenth century , is from one point of view a moral movement . |
| 19 | Made in the early 2nd century AD , imitating the Classical style of Athens in the mid-5th century BC . |
| 20 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 21 | Heraldic shield of Robert , Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan in the 12th century . |
| 22 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 23 | It was first systematized by Gratian of Bologna in the twelfth century . |
| 24 | Omri , a king of Israel in the ninth century , for six thousand shekels acquired the entire site for his new capital city of Samaria ( 1 Kings 16.24 ) . |
| 25 | There is , in particular , the introduction of two French saints within the text : St Leonard ( I. 7 ) , a sixth-century hermit from near Limoges , and St Denis ( I. 38 ) , the first bishop of Paris in the sixth century . |
| 26 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 27 | He would have been well acquainted with the Northumberland gardens at Sion House by the Thames ( originally laid out by the Duke of Somerset in the sixteenth century ) and supported an application by William Forsyth , one of his most promising pupils at Chelsea , for the appointment as head gardener there . |
| 28 | It was Pappus , one of the great mathematicians of Alexandria in the fourth century AD , who recognised that space could be filled by a moving point . |
| 29 | For Peking , Tibet has been an inseparable part of China since the 13th century , although direct control was not established until 1950 , when the People 's Liberation Army invaded the region after the revolution . |
| 30 | It could be argued , therefore , that the rise of Mercia in the eighth century represented a serious destabilization of the southumbrian situation before the return to a new balance between the Mercians and the West Saxons in the first half of the ninth . |