Example sentences of "the [adj] century [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 15th century it was transformed into a landowner 's residence , then vineyards were planted all around it and a cellar created . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 3 | However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in the last decades of the nineteenth century we can observe a greater decorum amongst the working class as a whole , and the articulation of clear respectable standards amongst important strata of it . |
| 5 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century they were all categorised together as ‘ the Alderney or French breed ’ said to be bred chiefly on Alderney and to a lesser extent on the other islands . |
| 7 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 8 | A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 10 | With mounting importunity these classes demanded political power to match their economic power , and through the greater part of the nineteenth century they challenged the political authority of the landed aristocracy … |
| 11 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 13 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 14 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 15 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 16 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |
| 17 | By the end of the nineteenth century it was fairly obvious that the dialogue was not materializing , as the social and political events of the 1880s had made clear , and the employers ' counter-attack on trade unions in the 1890s gave little hope for any kind of reconciliation . |
| 18 | Before 1400 there were no censuses in the modern sense , and at all periods before the nineteenth century it is difficult to find any precise evidence for population . |
| 19 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 20 | During the nineteenth century it became more specifically recommended for consumptive patients — initially in Funchal itself and later , at the beginning of the twentieth century , at Monte , when the Monte Palace Hotel opened in a magnificent park . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 22 | Even at the end of the nineteenth century it was overwhelmingly rural ; the largest town , Kurunagala , had a population of less than 6,500 . |
| 23 | There was also a regular police force , but during the first half of the nineteenth century it was small , poorly paid , and limited largely to Colombo , Galle , and areas where there were coffee plantations . |
| 24 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |
| 25 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 26 | Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being . |
| 27 | In the first half of the nineteenth century it was generally believed the menstrual flow came from an excess of nutrients in the female . |
| 28 | By the last quarter of the nineteenth century it is quite clear that the middle classes were limiting births . |
| 29 | In the nineteenth century it was the native inhabitants ' turn , and the Highlands suffered the terrible injury of the Clearances . |
| 30 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |