Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of post-mortem decomposition has been traced through the ninth century . |
| 2 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 3 | Exhaust fumes from a new generation of " super Concordes " planned for the 21st century may threaten the ozone layer , according to researchers from Cambridge University . |
| 4 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 5 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 6 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the context in which gynaecology and obstetrics developed during the 19th century was one of intense conflict among different kinds of medical practitioners , of tremendous change in the organisation of the medical profession , and of social and economic insecurity for many of its members . |
| 8 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 9 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 10 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 11 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 12 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 13 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 14 | Its administrative importance is certainly attested for the sixth century , and it probably continued , although evidence is almost non-existent for the later period . |
| 15 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 16 | NETWORKING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PCs all in a row — cost savings take second place to the benefits gained from sharing information |
| 17 | The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples . |
| 18 | In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century . |
| 19 | Further , because raw material imports rose through the eighteenth century while those of manufactured goods fell , there was an even more marked increase in volume than in value . |
| 20 | OF THE more common festivals the most interesting of those mentioned in the Stamford Mercury is Plough Monday , which is reported during the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The truncated spire , echoing the spire at Porlock , was added during the nineteenth century |
| 22 | Nor did Greek interest in Persia cease after the fifth century : a apart from Plato , several fourth-century commentators had good things to say , like the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( xix Bartoletti ) , who comments on the way Persian commanders deliberately withheld payments from ( Greek ) mercenaries ; this would put them more in their power . |
| 23 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 24 | The trend towards a form of social colonisation was accentuated throughout the nineteenth century by the perceived otherness of the working class , condemned , it was believed , to sexual rampancy and immorality , and often even physically different from the more leisured classes . |
| 25 | Yet in fact the Church 's power was being eroded throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism . |
| 27 | New tales from Toad Hall could be appearing into the next century |
| 28 | This combination of class and status was carried into the twentieth century . |
| 29 | As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies . |
| 30 | In the long term , Britain has to come into the next century with a partnership in Europe . |