Example sentences of "the 20th " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jiang Zemin , Chinese Communist Party secretary , is visiting Japan to mark the 20th anniversary of normalising Sino-Japanese relations . |
| 32 | Screenwriter Hart moves the story into the 20th century by suggesting that Peter was an orphan taken to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in the mid-1960s by Wendy Darling , played by Maggie Smith , and then adopted by an American family . |
| 33 | ‘ We should not forget this and it should serve as a lesson , ’ he said in a speech to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties . |
| 34 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 35 | The South Africans nevertheless made a good start , reaching 79 for one in the 20th over , but the loss of the assured Hudson ( 50 in 66 balls ) and of Kirsten in the space of three overs left the middle order with a daunting task . |
| 36 | The bid , via a share swap , will merge their operations to make the Swedish group the 20th largest European insurer . |
| 37 | Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions . |
| 38 | Now that all these gladiators are dead , we are the beneficiaries of their markedly different but equally rewarding interpretations of one of the 20th century 's overwhelming masterpieces . |
| 39 | There is an excellent chapter on Diderot 's ‘ Afterlife ’ , and his analysis of Rameau 's Nephew shows how Diderot anticipates problems of personality which were not to become common currency until the 20th century . |
| 40 | As an emancipated woman of the 20th century , much of whose life was spent in New England , Yourcenar feels compassion for those whose lives were thwarted by what she calls the philistinism of 19th-century Catholicism , that of her Belgian ancestors in particular . |
| 41 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 42 | They ‘ got away with it ’ with a half in bogey at the 19th , but they could not get their four at the 20th , where Tom Waugh , the son , holed an excellent putt . |
| 43 | The Labour Party was born with the 20th century , and seems likely to die with it . |
| 44 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham is one of the finest small collections in the world with about 200 paintings from the Middle Ages to the 20th century . |
| 45 | A few years earlier it had been calculated that if the populations of modern cities continued to increase in the 20th century , so would the horse-traffic , and that by 1960 cities like New York , London , and Glasgow , would be 100 feet deep in horse manure . |
| 46 | The girls went inside and the tram for Anderston thundered down the road into the 20th century . |
| 47 | Winston 's Water-Lions and Diving Nymphs were appearing at the Glasgow Empire , busily proving themselves as ‘ the aquatic marvels of the 20th century ’ . |
| 48 | A Renaissance had last happened in the days of the ‘ Glasgow Boys ’ and the other artists , architects and the like at the turn of the 20th century , and one of the stars of that re-birth of style and innovation , was the late , great son of a police superintendent , Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 49 | Although in the 19th century , the Federal Government was involved in a range of state and local functions , during the 20th century it has become far more difficult to differentiate national from state from local functions . ’ |
| 50 | The 20th century has seen a steady decline to the present total of 31,801 ( 1981 census ) with particular areas showing local reversals e.g. Benbecula with the advent of the rocket range in South Uist . |
| 51 | By 1880 , H.B. Savory was running the mill although , well into the 20th century , the company retained the name of Savory and Sons . |
| 52 | During the first part of the 20th century , because of its proximity to Nailsworth Station , it became known as Station Mill , although it was still referred to locally by its old name . |
| 53 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 54 | By the late 1880s , the mill had returned to corn milling , ceasing work completely in the early part of the 20th century . |
| 55 | Some reports put this around 1880 , but others claim the mill was still operating at the turn of the 20th century . |
| 56 | The motor museum now has an interesting collection of cars plus an incredible number of advertising signs ( over 600 ) and artifacts from the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries . |
| 57 | On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 58 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction , eg letters , diaries , autobiographies , and drama , including some works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 59 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |
| 60 | Read a range of poetry , fiction , literary non-fiction and drama , including works written before the 20th century and works from different cultures . |