Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 2 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 3 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 4 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 5 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 6 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 7 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 8 | Around Stoney Street ( south-east of city centre near St Mary 's Church ) is a commercial complex built in the nineteenth century , occupying a considerable part of the medieval town 's former area , and now known as the Lace Market . |
| 9 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 10 | John Prescott , the shadow transport secretary , said the announcement confirmed ‘ further delay , uncertainty and planning blight with the line 's completion pushed into the next century , not the end of the decade ’ . |
| 11 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 12 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 13 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 14 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 15 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 16 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 17 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 18 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 19 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 20 | If such is the case , it would follow that the 500-akce kadilik is a sixteenth-century invention and that in so far as 300- and 500-akce kadiliks have significance in hierarchical terms in the sense that the former ranked below the latter-they do so only in regard to the kadiliks created in the sixteenth century and later . |
| 21 | For those keen to explore , this is an ideal base from which to visit the lake 's jewel-like Borromean islands — delightful miniature attractions created in the 17th century and complete with summer palaces , art treasures and beautiful gardens . |
| 22 | The new districts were very largely based on amalgamations of existing district authorities which in turn derived from the sanitary districts created in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Your finger ring dates to the 15th century and is gold on silver . |
| 24 | If so , they were preparing the path for the closer integration of French provinces achieved in the thirteenth century . |
| 25 | A committee is to tackle the restoration of the small grotto constructed in the sixteenth century in the grounds of the villa celebrated in Borghini 's treatise , Il Riposo . |
| 26 | The village now lies beneath the lakes created in the 18th Century by Capability Brown as part of a grand landscape scheme . |
| 27 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 28 | The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] . |
| 29 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 30 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |