Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 2 | A team which can help shape the world for the next century . |
| 3 | ‘ Our goal ’ , he says , ‘ is to make sure the town is in good social and economic shape so that it is ready for the next century . ’ |
| 4 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |
| 5 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 6 | The law reports and local press for the next century made repeated references to armed affrays , and a large armed and mounted coastguard became a regular feature of coastal life , a ready source of special constables for panic-stricken magistrates in years of depression . |
| 7 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 8 | Together , we 'll write the book for the next century . |
| 9 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
| 11 | Between 1712 and 1716 the lots were sold to about twenty different persons : the same rents remained in force for the next century . |
| 12 | If we are talking about a rail infrastructure that is suitable for the next century , we must have in mind the sort of measure that is the subject of the debate . |
| 13 | It is no short-term measure it is the most important development for more than 50 years and it will be around for the next century . ’ |
| 14 | Q. Are you pinning a lot of hopes on Tencel for the next century ? |
| 15 | His will is an eloquent testimony of how conventional he was in his views — requiring Requiem Masses and prayers in perpetual memory of himself and of his family — and of how little he foresaw ( for how could he ? ) the changes which were to affect the church — and his bequests — during the next century with the coming of the Reformation . |
| 16 | We can point to Milton being retained as an approved poet of high literary culture during the next century when other dissenting writing of Milton 's age circulated among groups increasingly only at the margins of political life . |
| 17 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 18 | There is hope for Hector 's , but it has certainly been saved from fishing nets at the last hour , and will need all the protection and help it can get if it is to survive through the next century . |
| 19 | It is already a community of 12 members , and it could be a community of 20 by the beginning off the next century . |
| 20 | ( Cross-Channel traffic may , according to some estimates , double by the early years of the next century . ) |
| 21 | LA now plans to become the first conurbation in the world to grapple comprehensively with the most pressing international problem of the next century : how to remain prosperous without choking to death . |
| 22 | One of the nastiest pseudo-religious books of the Victorian age helped to condition the impressionable mind of a future Christian leader of the next century . |
| 23 | COMPANY heads yesterday condemned the government for refusing to sponsor the recabling of Britain to provide the information infrastructure of the next century in step with global competition . |
| 24 | His plan would allow each country a ‘ quota ’ until the end of the next century — a quota Britain would use up in 42 years at its present rate of emissions . |
| 25 | They rebelled against the Palladian sense of order and then led a classical revival which heralded the architecture of the beginning of the next century . |
| 26 | The EC Commission said much the same in its submission to the Energy Committee : ‘ At the present time the FBR is the only reactor type which could , if introduced early enough , extend the lifetime of our uranium resources to the end of the next century — and beyond . ’ |
| 27 | A government committed to the disciplines of the market had had a salutary lesson : the market did not care a damn for the long term , or strategic thinking into the middle of the next century , or , quite possibly , sustainable development . |
| 28 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 29 | Because of the exhaustion of the low-cost reserves , uranium prices seem bound to rise in the course of the first half of the next century ( assuming the uranium mining industry is to remain in business ) , but by how much is anyone 's guess . |
| 30 | The predicted 140 per cent increase in traffic in Britain by the end of the first quarter of the next century was an ‘ unacceptable option ’ , said Chris Patten . |