Example sentences of "the 20th " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 20th century an ‘ historic ’ architectural character — perhaps most typically that of the timber framed building — has become popular with , and desirable to , both publicans and brewers . |
| 2 | Determined to follow his own star , he was drawn to his classes in Canadian Literature ( which Dudek did hand-in-hand with MacLennan ) ; and the Great Writers of Europe ( from 1850 till the present ) ; as well as Poetry of the 20th Century ( in particular that of W.B. Yeats , T.S . |
| 3 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 4 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
| 5 | It could just as well have been the 20th birthday of the Eden Gardens tea urn , and as far as the Indian government is concerned , there is nothing like an international cricket tournament for persuading the electorate that , with polling day just around the corner , Rajiv is the boy to vote for . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 7 | The customary gallery of managers and scouts assembled to watch on a night when a chill , blustery wind made the measurement of passes difficult with the result that the match and Rovers in particular took time to warm up - until the 20th minute . |
| 8 | I could never get over the transformation of the vast auditorium by the dimming of the lights , the beautiful changes of colour on the curtains , and the anticipation brought on by the roaring lion , the muscle man with his gong the snow capped mountain , the searchlights probing the 20th Century . |
| 9 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 10 | For however he acquired that money he must have acquired it , Wexford was certain , during the 19th or the 20th of May . |
| 11 | IT was Maria Callas who , a generation ago , singlehandedly dragged Cherubini 's Medea back into the 20th century repertory . |
| 12 | IT WAS Maria Callas who , a generation ago , singlehandedly dragged Cherubini 's Medea back into the 20th century repertory . |
| 13 | On the edge of the crowd the inevitable party of Japanese tourists busily video the scene , turning history into home movies , acting out Andy Warhol 's belief that the 20th century could only know a thing was true if it was on TV . |
| 14 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 15 | After the vote at the 20th party congress , delegates leapt to their feet in rapturous applause and sang the Lithuanian national anthem . |
| 16 | ‘ We would be paying the penalty of a sizeable but limited number of professional people , selected for their talent and experience , coming from one of the most successful societies which has been created in the 20th century . ’ |
| 17 | At Congress House , headquarters of the 20th Century TUC , it simply is n't on at all . |
| 18 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 19 | But the 20th century showed that , whatever the distractions in other parts of the globe , America turns its back on Europe at its peril . |
| 20 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |
| 21 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 22 | IF BRITISH foreign policy in the 20th century has anything to teach the world , it is how to win important wars and lose the subsequent peace . |
| 23 | ‘ She is the Stubbs of the 20th century , ’ said Nicky Haslam . |
| 24 | ANTONIO ‘ Chico ’ Garcia — whose tribute to Jimi Hendrix was painted on a huge poster in Piccadilly Circus on the 20th anniversary of his death — is continuing his work with Wrangler . |
| 25 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 26 | Walking here , you leave the 20th century behind on the outskirts of the forest and enter the reconstructed emptiness in which the reivers and cross-border raiders of the past could operate unhindered . |
| 27 | IN the office of Jacques Attalli , president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , is a row of Russian matrioshka dolls , representing the great villains of the 20th century — Saddam Hussein , Adolf Hitler , Joseph Stalin , all the way down to a miniature Leonid Brezhnev . |
| 28 | Mansell 's pole , secured by the outstanding lap he produced in opening qualifying on Friday , was the 20th of his career and his third in succession this season . |
| 29 | But this is , unfortunately , an inefficient way of mastering a subject and one grotesquely inappropriate to the Prime Minister of a leading Western country in the last decade of the 20th century . |
| 30 | He advised his flatmate Simon Earle , who was to take 200–1 outsider Golden Fox to the 20th fence on his National debut , on the practicalities of Aintree . |