Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | I defy the eighteenth century to produce anything more English , more full of home and rest , and the nature of the country than my junction . |
| 2 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 3 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 4 | I cite the twentieth century in his defence . |
| 5 | Denying the twentieth century all that originality . ’ |
| 6 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It was in this role that the Catholic church entered the twentieth century . |
| 8 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |
| 9 | Let us look at those towns that grew up in the midst of their own open fields , that entered the nineteenth century with their population rising at a phenomenal rate , but were wholly unable to expand their building area to meet this rise in numbers . |
| 10 | Japan entered the 20th Century by beating Imperial Russia in one of the most remarkable of conflicts ever staged . |
| 11 | To these can be added the fourth century examples already mentioned , which clearly indicate some level of extra-mural contraction . |
| 12 | Experts say the 16th century drawing is the earliest hand-painted map of the Fens . |
| 13 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 14 | His is the only war grave in the churchyard adjoining the 11th century church at Colleville-sur-Mer . |
| 15 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 16 | The concept of equality has dominated the twentieth century . |
| 17 | His Lordship reviewed the nineteenth century case law which evidenced the broad application of natural justice and then proceeded to consider why , given these authorities , the law had become confused . |
| 18 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 19 | We began at Bakewell , the central town of the Peaks , where we visited the 14th Century church to see its celebrated collection of mediaeval monuments , did some souvenir shopping and could n't resist a genuine Bakewell Pudding before going on to nearby Chatsworth , the ‘ Palace of the Peak ’ . |
| 20 | On this scenario , Charles the Bald , whose reign ( 840 – 77 ) fairly straddled the mid-ninth century , was doomed to failure : like Charlemagne , he lacked the institutional means to exploit even what wealth there was within his realm , but , unlike Charlemagne , he could no longer lead successful plundering raids against the surrounding peoples , nor keep his aristocracy happy with regular share-outs of loot . |
| 21 | Here , preserved for all time , the images of those who 've shaped the 20th Century . |
| 22 | These criteria are usually formally defined , eg all children of 12 will study the 17th century : the Counter Reformation . |
| 23 | It is moreover mistaken to view the twentieth century cases which limited natural justice through manipulation of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as doing so primarily because of a feeling that those categorised as administrative would be unsuited to adjudicative procedures . |
| 24 | He opposed the nineteenth century hierarchy of rooms , but upheld an ideal of family life . |
| 25 | In addition , Galt is named after John Galt the 18th century author born in Irvine . |
| 26 | Yet they were surely correct in their fundamental premise , that what distinguished the twelfth century from its predecessors was above all the proliferation of new political communities , juridically defined by their consuetudines or coutumes . |
| 27 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
| 28 | There was a sign up at the airport — John Wayne Airport , naturally — that read CALIFORNIA : WE 'VE HAD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HERE FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS . |
| 29 | On the sea front itself you can see the seventeenth century fort built to protect the harbour and settlement from pirate attacks . |
| 30 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |