Example sentences of "england [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 3 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 4 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 5 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 6 | The survey examines the industrial espionage practiced by the French in England through the eighteenth century , almost invariably directed and organised by the French state , and the many important French administrators , technologists , scientists and industrialists involved . |
| 7 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 8 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 9 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 10 | It has been suggested that a totally new system of open fields for arable agriculture was laid out in at least one area of England in the seventh century ( Hall 1979 ; 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 12 | ( Incidentally , this reference is a secondary one , taken from Thomson 's England in the Twentieth Century , in which the actual source of Baldwin 's speech is not given . ) |
| 13 | Given the range of the latter , his historical output was substantial , with his work in English history , best represented by England in the Nineteenth Century , 1815–1914 ( 1950 ) , eclipsed in quality by his work on French history , which was attractively written and distinctive in approach and content : his several books on the subject included Democracy in France ( 1946 ) , which ran into five editions before his death . |
| 14 | D. Thomson England in the Nineteenth Century ( Penguin : 1978 ) |
| 15 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 16 | WHEN PURE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING WAS DEVELOPED IN ENGLAND IN THE 19TH CENTURY , THE FRENCH WERE DEVELOPING GOUACHE PAINTING TECHNIQUES WHICH WERE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AND APPEALING . |
| 17 | When pure watercolour painting was developed in England in the 19th century , the French were developing gouache painting techniques which were just as successful and appealing . |
| 18 | Welsh migration to England in the 19th century |
| 19 | The Grand Union canal , or the Grand Junction as the Aylesbury arm was known was one of the main routes for freight transport through England in the last century . |
| 20 | It is set in England in the twenty-first century . |
| 21 | the continuation of Oxford Street ( now Bayswater Road , west London ) was the main highway from London to the west of England in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | As that implies , Palladian architecture , which changed the face of England in the eighteenth century , is from one point of view a moral movement . |
| 23 | The singular style evolved from church singing in New England in the past century . |
| 24 | It was brought to Europe and England in the seventeenth century , arriving on our shores from Holland via the East India Trading Company . |
| 25 | And this was provided , by revolutionary action in England in the seventeenth century , in America in the eighteenth , in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth , and by a variety of methods in most other Western countries sometime within those centuries . |
| 26 | The dating of years from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — AD1 — started in England in the eighth century quite informally , and then spread throughout the countries of Western Europe with the exception of the Iberian peninsula , where a quite different system against a base of 1 January 38BC prevailed for a number of centuries . |
| 27 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 28 | Studies of household listings reveal comparatively few three-generational homes in England from the sixteenth century onwards : a mere 5 per cent on average . |
| 29 | The near absence of true hoards ( deposits of coin or metalwork in the ground not associated with burial ) in early Anglo-Saxon England until the seventh century may be taken as an important indication both of the role of hoarding in other societies and of the economic organisation of this period . |
| 30 | The potato was not widely used directly as food in England until the nineteenth century , although its capacity to sustain a family on very little land has been credited with the rapid Irish population growth from the late eighteenth century ( Connell 1950a , Langer 1975 ) . |