Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] century with " in BNC.
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| 1 | We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth . |
| 2 | His will is an eloquent testimony of how conventional he was in his views — requiring Requiem Masses and prayers in perpetual memory of himself and of his family — and of how little he foresaw ( for how could he ? ) the changes which were to affect the church — and his bequests — during the next century with the coming of the Reformation . |
| 3 | These were made of steel and popular after the 12th century with the advent of full body armour . |
| 4 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 5 | The idea that older people should leave the labour force at some point gained ground in the earlier part of the twentieth century with the popularity of ideas about scientific management , which implied that older people were bound to be inefficient workers . |
| 6 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 7 | The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the thirteenth century with the Scottish succession crisis caused by the death of Alexander III in 1286 and of his only direct heir , his granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway , in 1290 . |
| 8 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 9 | Spanish politicians discussed the political crises of the nineteenth century with the intimate precision with which a family discusses its affairs or a village gossips . |
| 10 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 11 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 12 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 13 | David Fuller A new French harpsichord source of the mid-18th century with an Eckard connection |
| 14 | It is quite acceptable to mix , say , the feeling of the 17th century with the very modern ; country pieces with glass and chrome ; modem bentwood with early Victorian ; a nice Regency side table with a scrubbed pine table . |
| 15 | The greatest changes in the technology and style of the brooches in Kent occurred in the last quarter of the sixth century with the introduction of solid gold objects decorated with filigree and cloisonné work replacing gilded silver objects . |
| 16 | Gregory 's account becomes exceptional in the second decade of the sixth century with the election of Quintianus , who had fled from his see at Rodez because of the Visigoths . |
| 17 | The foundations of the popularity of the seamen were laid at the end of the fifteenth century with the voyages of discovery of Bartholomew Diaz , Vasco da Gama , John Cabot and Christopher Columbus — the space explorers of their times . |
| 18 | Few in this room are old enough to remember the shock of awed surprise which fell upon young minds presented , in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties of the last century with Freeman 's Norman Conquest or Green 's Short History of the English People ; in which as through parting clouds of darkness , we beheld our ancestry , literary as well as political , radiantly legitimised . |
| 19 | It is aisleless , cruciform and the nave is of the twelfth century with three large domical vaulted square bays in ashlar construction and is very wide , having a vault spanning 54 feet and which is 80 feet high — a remarkable achievement for so early an example . |
| 20 | The three Romanesque doorways are magnificently carved and the centre one has a typical projecting porch of the twelfth century with infedels supporting the columns and vault . |
| 21 | From the end of the eighteenth century with the debate on over-population and the hyperbreeding of the poor , sexuality pervades the social consciousness : from the widespread discussions of the birthrate , deathrate , life expectancy and fertility in the statistical forays of the century to the urgent controversies over public health , housing , birth control and prostitution . |
| 22 | Astute and prudent , he managed the affairs of the bank through hazards of the eighteenth century with sound judgement , achieving good profits and an excellent reputation . |
| 23 | St Mary 's Street , containing three inns and a few grander houses , gave way to open country before reaching St Mary 's Church and Stowey Court , the latter a mansion of the sixteenth century with formal gardens and a gazebo . |
| 24 | Safdarjung interested me because his life seemed to encapsulate perfectly the intriguing but cataclysmic half-century that linked the Mughal high noon at the close of the seventeenth century with the decay and disintegration of the Twilight fifty years later . |
| 25 | One awaits the geriatric Techno of the next century with interest . |
| 26 | More legitimate traffic lingered into the twentieth century with the market boats , motorised in later days , continuing to collect fruit and vegetable produce and passengers until the 1930s . |
| 27 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |
| 28 | Steam into the 21st century with the Surfline Electronic iron from Rowenta . |
| 29 | LONDON ZOO yesterday announced its latest mission — to take the institution safely into the 21st century with a £21 million development programme . |
| 30 | Between 1403 and 1502 the number of new foundations fell to 120 and the downward trend continued into the sixteenth century with only thirteen new foundations between 1503 and 1547 , the year of the Chantries Act . |