Example sentences of "[verb] during the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 7 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 8 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 9 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The truncated spire , echoing the spire at Porlock , was added during the nineteenth century |
| 16 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 17 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 18 | Intensively hunted during the nineteenth century , they have more recently been managed and subject to controlled hunting on South Georgia ( Laws , 1960 ) . |
| 19 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 20 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 21 | Some of these mills were fairly small but a number , mainly built during the 19th century , were of considerable size . |
| 22 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 23 | This was yet another corn mill , probably built during the 16th century , later turned over to fulling and subsequently enlarged to form a substantial cloth mill . |
| 24 | Built during the seventeenth century , our new home was reputed to have been the birthplace of one of Northumberland 's most famous sons : Nicholas Ridley , Bishop of London . |
| 25 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 26 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 28 | Traditional writers — noting the increased central constraints upon local government which have undoubtedly occurred during the twentieth century — often depicted a move from an earlier period of partnership to one of agent . |
| 29 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 30 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |