Example sentences of "it [verb] in [art] [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 2 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 3 | The deep ambiguities of the Prussian State as it existed in the nineteenth century , intellectually a part of Western Europe yet with a social and military structure much of which continually tended to align it with Russia , trace largely from Frederick 's reign . |
| 4 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 5 | It originated in the seventeenth century during the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 6 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 7 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |
| 9 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 12 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 13 | It closed in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 14 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |