Example sentences of "into the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 2 | The unanimous consensus was that every single sherd fitted into the first century , except a mortarium rim found in the uppermost layer . |
| 3 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 4 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |
| 5 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 6 | That the exchange of letters continued to be significant into the seventh century is clear from the collection of Desiderius of Cahors . |
| 7 | I have to know everything and fling myself into the 3rd century . |
| 8 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 9 | This one has a commercial storyline : it is a modern ghost story in which research into the 17th century affects the present . |
| 10 | Ice-houses in Britain date from the seventeenth century , and many of the great houses had private ice-houses built in their grounds before the advent of refrigeration — some were still used well into the present century . |
| 11 | Well into the present century ‘ Picklecock Alley ’ on Saltash Waterside was well supplied with sea-food shops . |
| 12 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 13 | The mania persisted into the present century . |
| 14 | In an area like Cambridgeshire , courtship habits remained highly ritualised and infraction of the informal norms brought social disapproval and public shaming even into the present century . |
| 15 | From the 16th to the 19th century , in some places even into the present century , exploitation of polar resources has been largely unmanaged , and limited only by market satiation . |
| 16 | The sale was conducted by Messrs Cobb , many items being bought in by Mr T. Lingham including sheep , cattle , horses etc. as well as hop growing implements The growing of hops continued into the present century in Upper Hailing , and a photograph album loaned to me by Mr P. Lingham shows some fine photos taken in the hop fields of Upper Hailing as well as the farm , these date from the late 19th and early 20th century . |
| 17 | Even so , pockets of the earlier faith have survived into the present century . |
| 18 | Since the mid 19th century , he has found , Ballinluig and the scattered rural communities of Dalguise , Caputh , Spittalfield and Dunkeld have fought flood in 1837 , 1839 , 1847 , 1868 , 1894 , and on into the present century . |
| 19 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 20 | The style expressed their mood and artistic ideas and they clung to it well into the thirteenth century . |
| 21 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 22 | This is an important aspect of the process I have called his working his way backwards into the Nineteenth Century . |
| 23 | In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia . |
| 24 | As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies . |
| 25 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 26 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 27 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 28 | Although going back well into the nineteenth century , in the past two decades this idea has generated a vast amount of research by psychologists , physiologists , neuroanatomists and other scientists . |
| 29 | Its effect was remembered well into the nineteenth century in Birmingham ; at that later time the campaigners against apprenticeship in the West Indies reproduced and distributed a magazine plate of a Jamaican treadmill on which apprentices were employed , in the conviction that pictorial representations have a far more powerful influence on the mind than letter press descriptions ' . |
| 30 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |