Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 2 | However , while for many philosophers , especially in the present century , these are two different sorts of question , for Kant they are essentially one . |
| 3 | Literally thousands of patches of old lazy-beds can be seen throughout the Hebrides today as a clear testimony to land pressure , especially in the 19th century . |
| 4 | Families from the towns and villages of the county emigrated in large numbers , especially in the 19th century , and their spread and influence can be judged by the number of Ayrshire place-names to be found throughout the world . |
| 5 | Many thousands of separate natural minerals which fit this definition have been described , and , especially in the nineteenth century , scientists spent decades of their lives in searching out new ones . |
| 6 | As a consequence of this concept of an historical construction of sexuality , a third point of contact lies in the rejection , both by the interactionists and Foucault , of the notion that the history of sexuality — especially in the nineteenth century — can fruitfully be seen in terms of ‘ repression ’ . |
| 7 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 8 | The landed rich became economically active , especially in the eighteenth century , through the rise of commercialised farming , banking , and trade with the colonies . |
| 9 | The importance of ministers grew especially in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 11 | For example , the day commemorating the massacre of the Holy Innocents , 28 December , was regarded as a day of particular ill-omen , especially in the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 13 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 14 | Such trade was difficult enough in the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | It has shrunk a little since it first started there , perhaps in the tenth century , but it is still one of the largest open-air markets in the country . |
| 16 | It is the totality of these new enclosures , beginning perhaps in the seventeenth century and increasing rapidly through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that , together with the industrial and urban development discussed in the following chapters . |
| 17 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 18 | This was more so in the nineteenth century as Nonconformity grew stronger and more involved in the mainstream of national life , but it had always been the case . |
| 19 | ( The Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for oboe , clarinet , bassoon and horn which is played today under Mozart 's name appeared only in the 19th century : some of the music may be Mozart 's , but the work is clearly a later compilation . ) |
| 20 | Only in the nineteenth century did some of them find their way into the new museums . |
| 21 | Only in the nineteenth century did excavations reveal a major Roman temple to Mercury at Magdalensberg , and the youth was almost certainly the cult statue . |
| 22 | One of these was four metres high , the tallest bird that ever lived , and was finally killed off ( tragically ) only in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | ( Nor , it may be added , was it only in the nineteenth century that this stratagem was adopted : it has figured in a good deal of more recent writing as well . |
| 24 | Only in the nineteenth century did widespread protests against this kind of thinking break out within the main stream of Reformed theology itself . |
| 25 | These materials had not always been associated ; it was only in the nineteenth century that iron smelting came to the coalfields because of technological and economic convenience . |
| 26 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 27 | Only in the nineteenth century did it begin to include the unfair management of people or things . |
| 28 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 29 | Serious scientific attempts to explain the major structural and relief features of the Earth began only in the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | In Roman times , Oloron was already a place of substance , by name Iluro , but after the Romans went it was much attacked , by invading Vascons from Spain , by Arabs , and by Vikings ; only in the eleventh century did it recover , under the counts of Béarn . |