Example sentences of "[verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 2 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 3 | According to the Roman writer Pausanias , the temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed in the fifth century BC by Ictinus , one of the architects of the Parthenon . |
| 4 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 5 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 6 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 7 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 8 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 9 | A report in the journal Nature by a group of British scientists predicts that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere , which is expected in the next century , could lead to 100 per cent destruction of ozone in the lower stratosphere over the Arctic and northern Europe . |
| 10 | Like Eliot , Dawson emphasized the ‘ two Englands ’ created in the nineteenth century — ‘ the England of the fields and the England of the factories ’ — and wished to build on a common ‘ English tradition ’ which with some sort of religious sanction would take people Beyond Politics . |
| 11 | Several previous generations of editors presented a picture of Shakespeare 's evolving genius based on complete plays jumping out of his head in a pattern of development that made those appearing in the seventeenth century ‘ more mature ’ than those appearing in the sixteenth . |
| 12 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 13 | Thus when population and prices rose in the eighteenth century the tenant foreros sublet at great profits to themselves since their payments to the foristas had long ceased to represent an economic rent . |
| 14 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 15 | The Godiva story was probably concocted in the thirteenth century , because the first account is that of Roger of Wendover in 1236 , while Florence of Worcester , writing about Leofric and Godiva in 1118 , fails to include any reference to the story . |
| 16 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route by which cattle from Scotland and the North of England reached the Midland pastures and London : hence its later name of The Drift . |
| 17 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 18 | Added in the 15th century , this three-stage tower is octagonal for its full height and has slender buttresses and a lantern top . |
| 19 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 20 | It is known that the upper stage was added in the 17th century . |
| 21 | An elaborate canopy was added in the fifteenth century . |
| 22 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 23 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 24 | Originally built in Romanesque style , a Gothic choir and aisles were added in the fourteenth century , making it into a hall church . |
| 25 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 26 | Right , so erm , what 's happened to , to world trade over time , say in the last century , what major changes have taken place in world trade ? |
| 27 | Before we come on to look at that , can somebody tell me what 's happened to world trade say in the last century , what are the major trends in world trade ? |
| 28 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 29 | The Gild Merchant was remodelled in the fifteenth century as the religious Gild of St George , but the power of the principal citizens continued to increase . |
| 30 | Beside the church is Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti , a sixteenth-century building , substantially remodelled in the eighteenth century . |