Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] last century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would appear to confirm the frequently-expressed view that it is the books of the last century which are in greatest danger of deterioration . |
| 2 | And erm one day when I was digging in a vegetable garden , I got a whiff of a smelly swamp in the fields , which once , I knew , had been an , a pond in the last century . |
| 3 | Since the coming of manhood suffrage in the last century , constitutional authorities have tended to applaud the demise of parliamentary government , the decline of parliament , and the rise of the strong one-party executive . |
| 4 | But that 's nothing compared to his previous existences — he has been one of the 12 priests who murdered Queen Nefertiti 's husband , a minor Basque priest in the last century , and Ivan the Terrible . |
| 5 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 6 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 7 | Despite legal changes , smaller families and improved educational and employment opportunities over the last century or so , marked inequalities remain between the social and economic roles of men and women . |
| 8 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it was important throughout the latter part of the last century and well into this one . |
| 10 | In other words , rehabilitation has been added as another complication to the already compromised neoclassical position which , as we have already seen , has dominated most Western systems since the early part of the last century : the dominant operational framework is still the retributive tariff . |
| 11 | The habits and compromises of political life have not much changed since the early part of the last century . |
| 12 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 13 | By the early part of the last century two kinds of hospital had emerged that set the pattern for finance and provision for the next 150 years ( Abel-Smith , 1964 ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Amelia Bloomer , an American , whose eponymous , bifurcated undergarment was considered revolutionary in the early part of the last century , was passionately concerned with showing women that they could combine beauty with utility . |
| 15 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century . |
| 17 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 18 | In a biography about the godly E.B. Pusey , one of the Tractarians of the last century , this is written : |
| 19 | But it is important to see that the great European population changes which are almost entirely the work of the last century and a half are not just of statistical interest . |
| 20 | The event will consist of lectures , exhibitions , displays and a host of other events honouring William Dargan , one of Ireland 's greatest railway engineers of the last century who did much to improve Bray as a town between the late 1850 's and early 1960's . |
| 21 | Thus that other great uniformitarian of the last century — Charles Darwin — estimated vastly longer periods than are accepted today . |
| 22 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 23 | Only in the latter half of the last century did these ideas begin to emerge and it was recognized that embryos developed by epigenesis . |
| 24 | Mr Barnett has also described how the public school ethos that emerged in the latter half of the last century was suffused by a contempt for technology and ‘ trade ’ . |
| 25 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 26 | Royalty likes to go where royalty has already been , and in the second half of the last century Biarritz became the resort of monarchs from all over . |
| 27 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 28 | But I would like to suggest that , in the first half of the last century the " catastrophists " were better geologists than the " uniformitarians " . |
| 29 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 30 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |