Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 2 | Fuel-oil traces and power station fly-ash appear in the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | The overall level of criminal litigation dropped in the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | He is now based in Bradford , birthplace of his manager , Tom Moran , who moved in the Sixties first to Nigeria and then to Thailand as an engineer . |
| 5 | At the old medieval naval base of Portsmouth the planned suburb of Portsea was added in the early eighteenth century to house the workers in the new and expanded dockyard . |
| 6 | There has been a church on this site since 1170 but the present building dates from 1430 , with the famous hexagonal and crocketed spire being added in the early fifteenth hundreds . |
| 7 | At the back of this second tower a long range was added in the late 16th century , possibly to contain a spacious great hall , but little trace of this remains today . |
| 8 | To the disorder caused by pestilence , other pressures were added in the late fourteenth century . |
| 9 | Several historic houses are now museums , including the home of Christophe Plantin , who established Europe 's first truly commercial printing press in the 16th century , and the baroque mansion that Rubens built in the early 17th century . |
| 10 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
| 12 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |
| 13 | It has a baronial castle which was rebuilt in the early sixteenth century after fire destruction . |
| 14 | ( Sigriswil has a charming church of St Gallus , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century with a baroque interior . ) |
| 15 | Steffisburg has in its historic centre some buildings of considerable character : a church , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century but with a Romanesque tower that has a wooden belfry and spire ; and two adjacent buildings known as the Hochhuser , the larger of which is transitional between the Bernese farmhouse and the country mansion styles and has a hipped roof on a really magnificent scale . |
| 16 | Ordeals had taken place in or close to churches — the chronicler , Eadmer , writes in the early twelfth century of ordeals being conducted in the baptistery at the east end of Canterbury cathedral where former archbishops were buried — and so confused the ecclesiastical and the secular law , the law of the Church and the law of the State . |
| 17 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 18 | Spiro , whose mother still lives in a comfortable first floor flat in Golders Green , had the best education money could buy . |
| 19 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 20 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
| 21 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 22 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 23 | In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire . |
| 24 | Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Again , how were science and art demarcated in the early fifteenth century — — socially , intellectually and institutionally ? |
| 26 | Particularly worshipped in the Late Eighteenth Dynasty as a sun disk with rays ending in human hands and closely associated with the king Akhenaten . |
| 27 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 28 | Then came the most popular of the late medieval works , Walter Bower 's Scotichronicon , written in the mid fifteenth century , heavily dependent on Fordun , and heavily nationalist . |
| 29 | The first known secular literature in Slovene was composed of the baroque poems of an Augustinian friar , Marko Pohlin , written in the mid eighteenth century . |
| 30 | At Beverley , where John of Beverley was bishop of York throughout the reign , Osred was remembered for his benefactions ; but the picture given in Aethelwulf 's De Abbatibus , written in the early ninth century , is of an uncontrollable youth who slew many of his nobles and drove others to seek refuge in monastic life . |