Example sentences of "[verb] in the previous century " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 2 | In the same spirit Athens purified Delos in 426 — as Pisistratus had done in the previous century : control of Delos , the birthplace of Apollo the father of Ion , helped to justify control of Ionia . |
| 3 | A far more modern attitude to time and dates was adopted in the Previous century by the famous Italian poet and reviver of classical literature Petrarch ( 1304–74 ) . |
| 4 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 5 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 6 | Despite the obstacles to personal and geographical mobility posed by the communal organization of the liberated peasants , the abolition of serfdom in 1861 nevertheless created conditions in which an even greater number than ever before of voluntary emigrants and settlers from the land-hungry provinces of central European Russia flocked towards the fertile steppe and forest-steppe lands of west and south-west Siberia , thus massively augmenting the influx of peasant settlers already observed in the previous century . |
| 7 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |
| 8 | Works produced at the theatre in Hvar , rebuilt in 1612 after its destruction in 1571 , five years before London 's first theatre was built , carried on the literary traditions of the Hvar literary school established in the previous century . |