Example sentences of "the last century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 2 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 3 | From William James at the end of the last century to the present day , psychologists have speculated and experimented to discover how this is done . |
| 4 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 5 | The first major show to examine the development of Russian art over the last century . |
| 6 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 7 | She was liable to propel into the governmental system men associated with business success , of whom Lord Young became the prototype from 1984 onwards She was truly a distinctive phenomenon , linked neither with the patrician values of the grandees in the shires , nor with the manufacturing Tories of northern England cherished by Disraelian Tory Democracy in the last century , nor again with the suburban Toryism dominant in the party in the interwar years and after 1951 . |
| 8 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 9 | Some of the most important social changes and some of the greatest philanthropists in the last century were in the field of retailing and yet they are not our heroes . |
| 10 | In the last century the British deemed the wild mountainous regions of the Pashtuns too costly and too difficult to conquer . |
| 11 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 12 | Rugby has been played in the Soviet Union since the end of the last century when a Scottish businessman organised a game between expatriates in Moscow . |
| 13 | MODERN molecular biology has finally answered one of the most important questions thrown up by experiments in the last century on the nature of genetic inheritance . |
| 14 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 15 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 16 | Perhaps the greatest irony , though , is that the birth of the great museums in the last century did as much as anything to foster the idea that there was a single , empirical truth to be told . |
| 17 | Celtic excavations began in earnest only in the last century , and much remains untouched . |
| 18 | In a biography about the godly E.B. Pusey , one of the Tractarians of the last century , this is written : |
| 19 | When the troops pulled out of North Pakistan at the end of the last century , the Church Missionary Society sent a missionary doctor to the region to speak to the people of God 's love . |
| 20 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 21 | It was , for example , quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age ! |
| 22 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 23 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 24 | Working-class women had always had recourse to abortion ; but in the case of the last century it was particularly likely , first , where married women workers worked outside the home and hence paid a key role in determining their families economic stability ; and second , where the dependence of the family on the women 's wage led to a reappraisal of family strategy . |
| 25 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 26 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 27 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 28 | James Fillis was a riding master of the last century who captivated large audiences with his over-bent horses with unnatural gaits . |
| 29 | Since the historical study of coins began , in the Italian Renaissance , many different methods have been developed , particularly within the last century , and the most important of these are considered in the following pages . |
| 30 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |