Example sentences of "of the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leapor simply does not fit into such a view of the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 2 | The European Wars of the mid-eighteenth century had seen the militia revived from its moribund state , but the quota of men and equipment on each Sussex village became a heavy strain . |
| 3 | His first proposals for Hagley were Gothic , while other projects included some designs for Arbury Hall , Warwickshire ( c .1750–2 ) , one of the best Gothic houses of the mid-eighteenth century , and his well-known work at Lacock Abbey , Wiltshire ( 1754–5 ) ; but his most characteristic products were his half-ruined mock castles — at Hagley ( 1747–8 ) , Wimpole Hall , Cambridgeshire ( designed 1749–51 , built 1772 ) , and Ingestre Hall , Staffordshire ( c .1750 , demolished ) — which , developing the theme of the Radway tower , constituted pictorial embodiments of historical memory . |
| 4 | This is what pagans of the 1st century Roman Empire thought about Christians ( somewhat later it would be how Christians viewed those in league with Satan ) : |
| 5 | I suppose you know the old story — French of the 12th century — about Heloise and Abelard and their strange love ? |
| 6 | When the tower was being constructed at the end of the 12th century , it started keeling over . |
| 7 | The massive red sandstone walls of this great fortress are up to 20 feet thick , and you can still sense the defensive strength of the 12th century keep . |
| 8 | The setting is famous for its beauty , and the magnificent remains still convey the purity of the ideals of the 12th century Cistercian monks who founded the abbey . |
| 9 | The canons erected this burly structure at the close of the 12th century , and gained isolation both to recite their offices and perhaps to escape from damp and cold below ; a wide staircase and a gentle gradient took them through the thickness of the N wall . |
| 10 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 11 | We motored down to Vyborg Castle Harbour , where we tied up by a newly built tax-free shop in the shadow of the 12th Century castle . |
| 12 | Excavations below the floor revealed the slab over the grave of Melangell and the foundations of the 12th century apse . |
| 13 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 14 | This small Islamic jug ( OA 1952.2-14.1 ) of the ninth century AD appears intact below when viewed by ordinary light , but X-rays show that it is extensively repaired right , especially around the rim . |
| 15 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 16 | Written in Latin , it was translated into English towards the end of the ninth century by Alfred the Great . |
| 17 | In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent . |
| 18 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 19 | By the end of the ninth century many Hellenistic scientific and technological works had been translated into Arabic , including Ptolemy 's great astronomical book Syntaxis , which is usually known today by its Arabic title The Almagest . |
| 20 | It was by conquest that Alfred and his successors created a single English kingdom out of the ruins caused by the Danish invasions of the ninth century . |
| 21 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 22 | Yaakov Meshorer , Curator of Archaeology at the Israel Museum , where finds from the most important sites are on display , explained to The Art Newspaper that the greater number are from a Nabatean city at Qasrawet , twenty-five miles east of the Suez Canal , an Israelite city at Qadesh Barnea ( occupied until the end of the Judean Kingdom in 586 BC ) and an Israelite garrison of the ninth century BC at Kuntilet a-Jrud . |
| 23 | These kings chose Angkor at the beginning of the ninth century for their residence and remained there until 1431 , when they were defeated by the Thais . |
| 24 | But between the middle of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth , when it was supplanted by Orthez , Morlaas was the capital of Béarn . |
| 25 | Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) . |
| 26 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 27 | It appeared at the end of the ninth century and spread during the next two centuries throughout the Eastern ( Byzantine ) Church . |
| 28 | In the middle of the ninth century one of the Serbian chieftains , Vlastimir , became grand župan ( veliki župan ) of a Serbian principality which owed allegiance to Byzantium . |
| 29 | The Croats first settled in their present homeland in the seventh century and were converted to Christianity in the first half of the ninth century , shortly after they accepted the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor , Charlemagne , in 803 . |
| 30 | Its history begins in the last years of the ninth century . |