Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 2 | A number of writers have drawn attention to the fact that although Rameau 's name was never quite forgotten during the century after his death , the Rameau ‘ revival ’ came about as a consequence of the Franco-Prussian War . |
| 3 | A change in the character of Ragusan trade came in the century following the Age of Discovery . |
| 4 | From such new creations , notably in France , came a high proportion of the most important writing on military problems produced during the century . |
| 5 | The most striking vein he mines is that of conversational and epistolatory poems ; they run through the century , offering character sketches , rural and city scenes , drawing-room and marital exchanges . |
| 6 | Now the colour of stars , and especially whether they were red or white , became something of interest ; and like natural history , the observation and recording of red stars was something which amateurs could do , and astronomical societies flourished throughout the century , bringing mathematicians and owners of telescopes together . |
| 7 | The proportion of the population living in the countryside had been declining throughout the century . |
| 8 | The number of women poets swelled through the century , not least because they learnt they could speak to one another in this way . |
| 9 | Wage differentials notwithstanding , the nominal wages of London 's skilled men did not much move over the century until the last decade . |
| 10 | Nothing on the exterior , however , prepared one for the stunning exhibition of color , texture , and mural art in the interior , features that constituted a major step in an architectural revolution that was most fully developed in the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago ( 1933–74 ) . |
| 11 | If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations . |
| 12 | Decisive naval battles were also made less likely by ideas which persisted throughout the century as to the way in which wars at sea should be fought . |
| 13 | The opposition between capitalism and socialism has thus remained throughout the century a dominant feature of political life , whatever the modifications that have been introduced into the opposing doctrines and policies in response to changes in the economy and society ; which were themselves , in part , an outcome of this conflict . |
| 14 | Among such workers more sophisticated means of conducting disputes had emerged over the century . |
| 15 | The middle-class evangelism which attempted to transform working-class moral habits , which had continued throughout the century , accentuated in the last decades under the stress of perceived social tensions . |
| 16 | Sumner was associated with the Century Guild from 1884 . |
| 17 | They had retained a firm conviction , despite the talk about the ‘ social gospel ’ , of the need for personal salvation through individual conversion , a belief which accorded with the century 's emphasis on individualism . |
| 18 | Nearly all the farmhouses we see between the compact villages of the country between the Yorkshire and the Dorset coasts date from the century 1750–1850 . |
| 19 | All that vast enlargement of educational opportunity which has happened in the century since then and continues to accelerate has not robbed their vision of its truth nor their example of its value . |
| 20 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 21 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |
| 22 | Natural history certainly had a strong amateur component , but this continued throughout the century . |
| 23 | Despite the significant number of labouring poets who published through the century , Hands assumed that her social position would constitute an obstacle to the acceptance of her work . |
| 24 | I 've read about the century of rebellions . ’ |
| 25 | Although women were living longer than men on average , there remained throughout the century an ‘ accident blackspot ’ for women who bore children . |
| 26 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 27 | Observers agreed that Nonconformist buildings improved with the century , especially during the last twenty-five years . |
| 28 | ‘ We must march with the century ’ are almost his first words ; and he marches all the way to the Lêgion d'honneur . |
| 29 | A Netherlands-based company called the China Art and Antique Foundation has announced an auction of Chinese art and artefacts to be held in the Century Theatre and Beijing Grand Hotel on 9 October . |
| 30 | Its extended opening hours uptown to 8 p.m. six nights a week and downtown to 10 p.m. on Thursday , Friday and Saturday , will trawl a large local audience at a time when the Whitney Museum is closing on Monday and Tuesday , as will its heavyweight exhibition programme , concentrating upon the century 's major historical developments and established personalities . |