Example sentences of "europe [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was introduced into Europe about the twelfth century . |
| 2 | Genghis Khan , the Mongol war lord , is said to have brought seed of the white poppy with him on his advance on Europe during the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Thus among the most frequently cited examples of conjonctures are the increase in the population of western Europe during the sixteenth century , the rise and fall of European prices from 1791 to 1817 and 1817 to 1832 , and the pattern of wages during the same period . |
| 6 | His garden became the pivot of plant exchange between America and Europe during the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Jonathan Sisson was one of the most celebrated instrument-makers of his time , fostering the pre-eminence of the London instrument-making trade in Europe during the eighteenth century , ably followed by John Bird , Jeremiah Sisson , John and Peter Dollond , Jesse Ramsden , and Edward Troughton [ qq.v . ] . |
| 8 | The militarism which had begun to take root in Europe during the eighteenth century was now steadily gaining strength . |
| 9 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 10 | It 's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century . |
| 11 | The chain armour had to be improved to protect the knight against arrows : in western Europe in the eleventh century the powerful crossbow came to be used , and the crusading armies constantly found themselves rained on by showers of arrows from mounted Turkish archers . |
| 12 | This form of romanticism becomes not only reactionary , therefore , but conducive to the sort of fascism that took root in Europe in the twentieth century . |
| 13 | G.Lichteim , Europe in the Twentieth Century ( N.Y. , 1972 ) |
| 14 | G. Lichtheim , Europe in the Twentieth Century ( New York , 1972 ) xiii |
| 15 | H. Hearder , Europe in the Nineteenth Century ( London , 1966 ) p.96 |
| 16 | When large quantities of Chinese blue and white porcelain first arrived in Europe in the 17th century the demand was so high it was nicknamed ‘ Chinamania ’ ; the phrase is just as apt today . |
| 17 | The first turkeys were shipped to Europe in the 17th Century when ‘ Turkish ’ was a blanket term for anything which came from or through Arab lands . |
| 18 | Foucault 's claim is that the very idea of such homogeneity is a very recent notion generated in , and appropriate to , the special political climate of Europe in the late-eighteenth century . |
| 19 | When first introduced into Europe in the 14th century , sugar was reverently referred to as ‘ white gold ’ , and commanded a market price equal to that of silver . |
| 20 | The invention of printing in Europe in the sixteenth century soon brought with it a number of books offering dream-interpretations for ordinary people . |
| 21 | But in Western Europe in the sixteenth century the situation was quite different . |
| 22 | Among more specific causes Tilly mentions the growth of cities , trade , merchants and manufacturers , and observes that ‘ Later on a powerful reciprocal relationship between the expansion of capitalism and the growth of state power developed ’ ; a relationship which was noted earlier by Max Weber ( see p. 88 ) and is one of the principal themes in Fernand Braudel 's ( 1972 ) study of Europe in the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | There was at least no example in Western Europe in the eighteenth century of the premeditated murder by secret agents of one country of a diplomat belonging to another , a thing which had been seen under the rule of Louis XIV . |
| 24 | Because grants to courtiers came to be seen as an abuse , monopolies to individuals were prohibited in 1624 , but corporations could still receive them and they continued to be the basis for trade outside Europe in the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | A process essentially the same as this was used for brass-making in Europe until the nineteenth century , when it became more economical to alloy metallic zinc directly with copper . |
| 26 | Milton adopts a classical tragic high style and models Samson to participate in Renaissance humanist parodia Christiana , the transference of Classical literary principles to Christian settings , a methodology common throughout Europe from the fifteenth century onwards especially among neo-Latin writing . |
| 27 | In Europe from the twelfth century onward , feudal society was affected by the gradual transformation of local markets into permanent towns , with important implications for the emergence of a fourth stratum . |
| 28 | Modern scholarship is beginning to bring to attention traditions of piety , particularly that of women , in Europe from the twelfth century onwards , which are significant for the understanding of medieval English mysticism . |
| 29 | In the philosophy of Aristotle , which had dominated the intellectual life of Europe since the thirteenth century , there had been a clear division in the cosmos between the perfect spheres beyond the moon and the corrupt sublunar sphere at the center of which stood the earth . |
| 30 | This remarkable example has been a source of inspiration for architects in Europe since the sixteenth century . |