Example sentences of "to the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 870 to the mid-eleventh century it was a Byzantine colony where the Eastern Emperors held power despite Saracen attacks . |
| 2 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 3 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 4 | The other , after many restorations and additions , still exists and now has an eleventh century campanile and gabled west front with a low portico connecting this to the fifth century ( roofless ) baptistery . |
| 5 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 6 | This is in no small part due to the potential of stained glass to transform ‘ that which is material to that which is immaterial ’ , according to the 12th century Abbot Suger , who is credited with building , near Paris , the first gothic structure . |
| 7 | Laugharne Castle dates back to the 12th century and Carmarthen Castle to 1109 , restored some 200 years later by Edward I at a cost of £169 15s. 6d ! |
| 8 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 9 | St Margaret 's Chapel , dating back to the 12th century , is the earliest surviving structure in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 10 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 11 | The southumbrian kingdoms from the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth century |
| 12 | Eliseg is probably to be dated approximately to the mid-eighth century . |
| 13 | A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur . |
| 14 | In the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century , clitoridectomy , it appears , ceased to be acceptable . |
| 15 | The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it . |
| 16 | All the music played was written by composers who were chemists ( or almost so ) , ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century , from Campion to Elgar . |
| 17 | These are obvious cases because the forms are linguistically or stylistically related , and in one of them it will be shown later that the name became hereditary — as Forsey — down to the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The newspapers invented the misleading name ‘ total allergy syndrome ’ for her problem , as well as the melodramatic headline ‘ Allergic to the Twentieth Century ’ . |
| 19 | But the point to notice is that a key part of humanist thought , from the early Greeks down to the twentieth century , is the attempt to justify man 's knowledge by his reason alone , denying the necessity of faith in general and God 's revelation in particular . |
| 20 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 21 | In light of the success of the Spanish sale held in London last spring and in recognition of the importance of German art in the international marketplace , Christie 's are organising a sale devoted entirely to German art from the sixteenth to the twentieth century , which will be held at King Street in May of 1993 . |
| 22 | In Joanna Russ 's The Female Man , Janet , returning to the twentieth century from an all-female future , visits the Pentagon , and asks , ’ where the dickens are all the women ? ’ ( 1985 : 8 ) . |
| 23 | More than 120 paintings dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century have been loaned from The State Museum of Ukrainian Art , Kiev , the majority nineteenth-century portraits and genre scenes but also some fine icons such as ‘ The Miracle of Saint George ’ , second half of the fifteenth century , from the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross , Zvyzhen ( Galicia ) , and a group of avant-garde works from the private collection of the Kiev collector Ihor Dyehenko . |
| 24 | Instead they have imaginatively reconstructed the imaginary town 's historical development over eight centuries : from the time that the first stone buildings would have been erected , through the period of canal-building and land-reclamation in the seventeenth century , to the twentieth century with its emphasis on the development of ‘ a comfortable urbanity ’ , exemplified by turn-of-the-century villas . |
| 25 | The fourteen papers include : ‘ The Renaissance draughtsman and his models ’ by Francis Ames-Lewis , which takes issue with some of the opinions in the Woodner exhibition catalogue ; ‘ The creative copy in nineteenth-century French art ’ by Richard Thompson , which produces some striking juxtapositions such as a Redon charcoal after Leonardo 's Louvre ‘ Virgin and Child with Saint Anne ’ with the original painting ; ‘ Claude Lorraine as a figure draughtsman ’ by Michael Kitson ; ‘ The charcoal drawings of Odilon Redon ’ by Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski ; ‘ Pastel : its evolution to the twentieth century ’ by Genevieve Monnier ’ ; and ‘ An unknown collection of drawings in the eighteenth century ’ by Tilman Falk , which attempts to reconstruct the collection of the Rheinland merchant Johann Jakob Faesch ( 1732–96 ) . |
| 26 | Second , for the non-professional art lover , we shall be keeping the ‘ period rooms ’ , originally gifts from generous donors , while attempting to order them in a coherent sequence spanning the period from the fifteenth to the twentieth century . |
| 27 | Entries are invited for the Minda de Gunzberg prize for an outstanding exhibition catalogue on Western art from the middle ages to the twentieth century , in any language , published in 1992 . |
| 28 | Peter Laslett , for instance , has attempted to show that the average household size from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century was 4.75 persons ( that is , always ‘ nuclear ’ ) , and he has used this data to challenge the notion that the nuclear model is a product of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 29 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 30 | That is , I think , a somewhat tendentious description of the classic realist novel , and , in fact , writers like E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway , Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written fiction that answers to the twentieth century 's sense of moral and philosophical crisis without deviating violently from the conventions of classic realism . |