Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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1 | The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss . |
2 | Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles . |
3 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
4 | Pascal , Blaise ( 1623–1662 ) A French theologian and mathematician , Pascal is most famous for his unfinished Pensées ( Thoughts ) , in which , by means of brilliant , pungent remarks , he attempts a vindication of Christianity through a series of perceptive observations whose psychological insight and aphoristic style anticipate the approach of the brilliant atheist Nietzsche in the nineteenth century . |
5 | Further , ‘ A pronoune hath thre persons ’ : These are the traditional grammatical definitions of the pronoun , as first made by Dionysius Thrax in the second century BC , and systematized further by Priscian ( c . |
6 | This stream was part of the system installed by Alderman Hussey in the previous century and apparently all sorts of things used to float past . |
7 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
8 | The near absence of true hoards ( deposits of coin or metalwork in the ground not associated with burial ) in early Anglo-Saxon England until the seventh century may be taken as an important indication both of the role of hoarding in other societies and of the economic organisation of this period . |
9 | Tradescant 's father , also named John , was an ingenious gentleman gardener , the Gertrude Jekyll of the seventeenth century . |
10 | D. Thomson England in the Nineteenth Century ( Penguin : 1978 ) |
11 | ‘ He loved to talk the country dialect , and was welcome at all farms as friend ’ , wrote Canon Rawnsley in the nineteenth century . |
12 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
13 | Portuguese missionaries brought them to East Africa from South America in the 15th century . |
14 | Perhaps even more destructive than these has been the effect of orchid collectors , particularly in South America in the last century . |
15 | Laboratory studies in zoology had been established at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard under Louis Agassiz in the mid century . |
16 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
17 | The basic way a computer performs a geometric transformation relies on the Cartesian coordinate system , an invention of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in the 17th century . |
18 | The family of Bishop Eadnoth of Dorchester , who had been both monk and abbot of Ramsey , and whose rich brother gave land to the monastery , was possibly allied with that of Æthelstan Half-King , the powerful ealdorman of East Anglia in the mid-tenth century , whose sons were great patrons of Ramsey . |
19 | It was restored in Gothic manner under the Emperor Franz Josef in the nineteenth century and once more used as a coronation church . |
20 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
21 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
22 | The former established themselves on the margins of Lake Texcoco in the fourteenth century . |
23 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
24 | He was responding in a Commons written reply following a row over Labour frontbencher Keith Vaz being refused permission to marry his fiancee Maria Fernandes in the 13th Century Church of England crypt chapel . |
25 | Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century contemplated refusing her assent to a measure but wiser counsels prevailed . |
26 | This solitary travelling , in an age when travel was dangerous , may seem to show her as an indomitable and independent woman , like Mary Kingsley in the nineteenth century ; but in fact , like most psychotics , she was extremely dependent on others . |
27 | HSING-I This is the last of the three internal styles , invented by a general named Yueh Fei in the 12th century . |
28 | The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot . |
29 | The Rule of St Benedict of the sixth century was a code written by Benedict for the use of his own monks . |
30 | Nor do we know to what extent the ‘ Reformation ’ instituted by St Dunstan in the tenth century touched the county at all . |