Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] the twentieth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are bringing Danu into the twentieth century . ’ |
| 2 | The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society . |
| 3 | Letter : Overlooked genius in the twentieth century |
| 4 | Letter : Overlooked genius in the twentieth century |
| 5 | Letter : Overlooked genius in the twentieth century |
| 6 | ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened . |
| 7 | Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century . |
| 8 | The really significant change in divorce , in terms of both law and behaviour , has taken place in the twentieth century ; and as Stone devotes only forty of his 422 pages to a consideration of the period after 1857 , he essentially precludes an answer to the question he poses , namely , why divorce has become as common as taxes and death . |
| 9 | David Frost kicks off a new series of Sunday breakfast current affairs shows by interviewing Premier John Major , Clive James hosts a new series titled Fame In The Twentieth Century , and Selina Scott will present show business and media magazine Entertainment Express . |