Example sentences of "beginning [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is already a community of 12 members , and it could be a community of 20 by the beginning off the next century . |
| 2 | As we noted earlier , the Nazarean hierarchy , at the beginning of the second century , was directed by two brothers , James and Jude , who are specifically identified as grandsons of Jesus 's brother . |
| 3 | It already embraced Brahmans , Magi , Egyptian priests and Druids by the beginning of the second century B.C. , as we know from the authors quoted by Diogenes Laertius in his prooemium . |
| 4 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 5 | Because of slow progress in birthrate reduction , the projection for world population at the beginning of the 22nd century was raised from 10,200 million to 14,200 million . |
| 6 | A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century . |
| 7 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 8 | The beginning of the 19th century saw Paul Wathen working the mill and , under his control , a radical redevelopment of the site was carried out between 1803 and 1804 . |
| 9 | Various disputes occurred over the years , culminating in a protracted battle at the beginning of the 19th century , with the owner , William Humphries Barrett . |
| 10 | By the beginning of the 19th century the site was in the hands of Thomas England but shortly afterwards was leased and run by members of the Austin family . |
| 11 | AT THE beginning of the 19th century , scientists considered magnetism and electricity to be independent . |
| 12 | By the beginning of the 19th century science seemed already to be ineluctably yoked with technology , and technology with industry ; and though industry could be equated with men of culture and vision ( such as Josiah Wedgwood and sons ) it is remembered in practice , by those who later ‘ read ’ the ‘ humanities ’ , through the contemporary and in alliterative terms more resonant response of William Blake . |
| 13 | It had to do too with William Blake , at the very beginning of the 19th century , who equated technology with industrialisation and industrialisation with despoliation . |
| 14 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 15 | Moreover , by the beginning of the 19th century , the rate of growth had become really fast — well over 10 per cent in ten years . ’ |
| 16 | At the beginning of the 19th century this design was replaced by a convex sauce-boat with a ring handle on the lid , scroll handles at each end and standing in four feet . |
| 17 | At the beginning of the 19th century the condition of the agricultural workers was desperately poor and for the next forty years wages did not improve . |
| 18 | They are largely monotone engravings but around the beginning of the 19th century a series of itinerant Irish artists recorded the Gorge in all its glory and colour . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the 19th century , two basic styles of animal portraiture are evident in artistic practice . |
| 20 | Trade between Leith and Hull can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th Century when the Hull and Leith Shipping Company was formed . |
| 21 | George Crabbe 's omnibus portrait of The Borough , a sort of demographic survey of Aldeburgh , on the Suffolk coast , at the beginning of the 19th century . |
| 22 | ( By the beginning of the fifth century ) the Olympian religion and its mythology were in a state of crisis . |
| 23 | The Hound of Ulster is supposed to have lived at the beginning of the first century AD . |
| 24 | The area has been associated with cavalry exercises from the beginning of the 15th century . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the 17th century , woman was widely agreed to be the weaker of the two sexes . |
| 26 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 27 | From the first ballets de cour until the beginning of the twentieth century music was always specially commissioned . |
| 28 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 29 | The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule . |
| 30 | Since the beginning of the twentieth century , Chiswick was one of the homes of Sir Oswald Stoll 's ‘ Empire ’ theatres — another was at Shepherds Bush Green , which still remains as the B.B.C. 's television theatre — and although the Chiswick Empire was not always used for ‘ live ’ entertainment ( it became a cinema during the 1930s ) , it was one of the principle variety theatres in the Country and saw performances by all the principle artists from George Robey to Morecambe & Wise ; Petula Clark and Cliff Richards . |