Example sentences of "be [verb] in the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 2 | The foundations of chemistry as a mature science had been laid in the last third of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The central block was originally Jacobean but had been gothicised in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | The origins of modern ethnography are to be found in the late nineteenth century , when men like Boas and Rivers studied the ways of life of a variety of tribes by then included in the British Empire . |
| 5 | The Scropes owned extensive estates in Wensleydale ( whose value had been increased in the late sixteenth century by mineral exploitation ) and at Langar in Nottinghamshire . |
| 6 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 7 | Although measurements in small watersheds were undertaken in the late nineteenth century , it was after the mid twentieth century that the movement developed very rapidly and absorbed the attention of some physical geographers . |
| 8 | There has been a church on this site since 1170 but the present building dates from 1430 , with the famous hexagonal and crocketed spire being added in the early fifteenth hundreds . |
| 9 | To the disorder caused by pestilence , other pressures were added in the late fourteenth century . |
| 10 | Both churches were built in the early twelfth century and can be approached from two directions . |
| 11 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 12 | The great bronze doors of the central doorway , which lead from the narthex into the cathedral , were made in the early twelfth century and are decorated in silver . |
| 13 | Next month , we shall look at some more regiments , the senior components of which were raised in the early eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Crèches were abandoned in the early twentieth century partly for reasons of economy and partly as a result of the pressure exerted by the infant welfare movement on mothers to stay at home with their children . |
| 15 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 16 | There is a lead statue of a shepherd boy and his dog at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire which was almost certainly supplied by van Nost when the garden was being remade in the early eighteenth century . |
| 17 | There they remained until they were discovered in the late nineteenth century . |
| 18 | ( The tablets on which it was recorded were discovered in the mid nineteenth century , and their decipherment was only largely completed by the end of that century ) . |
| 19 | A number of important cathedrals , minsters and churches were begun in the late thirteenth century in emulation of the French prototype . |
| 20 | He has been refused bail and repeatedly protests about being held in the grim 13th Century jail . |
| 21 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |
| 22 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 23 | I was pleased to find that a number of pamphlets on the town had been published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a keen amateur local historian . |
| 24 | The coin of Metapontum ( left ) , which was minted in the early fifth century BC , was struck over a coin of Corinth ( right ) . |
| 25 | As Giovannoni ( 1982 ) has demonstrated , the model was developed in the late nineteenth century when public health developed a methodology and a terminology for mounting programmes and interventions to control and eliminate acute infectious diseases ( Armstrong , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 27 | At the old medieval naval base of Portsmouth the planned suburb of Portsea was added in the early eighteenth century to house the workers in the new and expanded dockyard . |
| 28 | At the back of this second tower a long range was added in the late 16th century , possibly to contain a spacious great hall , but little trace of this remains today . |
| 29 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 30 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |