Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 2 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 3 | The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples . |
| 4 | This one has a commercial storyline : it is a modern ghost story in which research into the 17th century affects the present . |
| 5 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 6 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 7 | The latter , a uniquely interesting people distinct from all their neighbours both physically and culturally , were driven out of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin by the Russo-Japanese territorial conflicts which began in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 9 | The growth which began in the eighteenth century had made the population more youthful by 1801 ; the normal consequence of any decline in mortality and increase in fertility ( figure 2.8 ) . |
| 10 | They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 11 | The pride and joy of the town is the splendid castle , which originated in the 11th century and has been restored through the ages . |
| 12 | The founder of this method , which thrived in the nineteenth century , was Auguste Comte.l We will first consider the nature of Comte 's thought and then examine its development by Durkheim . |
| 13 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |
| 14 | Blyth was formerly a medieval fishing and salt-working village known as Blyth Snook , which grew in the eighteenth century to become one of the north-east 's great coal ports . |
| 15 | The museum is housed in a former manor house , parts of which date from the 15th century including a Great Hall and an oakpanelled room . |
| 16 | As in so many villages , the parish church is the oldest building , the earliest parts of which date from the 13th century . |
| 17 | Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century . |
| 18 | All surfaces — dome , drum , pillars , chancel screen and walls are covered in paintings , some of which belong to the fourteenth century building period ( 232 ) . |
| 19 | This book traces the history of the different regional long house types which emerged during the 16th century . |
| 20 | Several new female occupations which emerged in the eighteenth century , such as the hand-decorating of china or hand printing of cottons , demanded great dexterity and control . |
| 21 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 22 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 23 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |
| 24 | It is somewhat easier to see how a rurally-based tradition of collectivism could have survived in pre-industrial Japan , especially in the 250 years of isolationist rule which lasted until the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Though much new woodland was planted , the overall result was a major reduction in the area under trees which continued into the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase . |
| 27 | A ‘ phototec ’ which will allow greater access to the museum 's photographic collection which dates from the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations . |