Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If so , they were preparing the path for the closer integration of French provinces achieved in the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The village now lies beneath the lakes created in the 18th Century by Capability Brown as part of a grand landscape scheme . |
| 15 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 16 | ( a ) Sinusoidal projection , and equal-area projection developed in the 16th century . |
| 17 | It was a national architecture formed in the thirteenth century , |
| 18 | In addition , can a set of precepts developed in the fifth century BC still retain sufficient vitality and relevance to regulate the practice of medical wonders at the end of the twentieth century AD ? |
| 19 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 20 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 21 | The village can only be described as picturesque , the core built in the 13th century has narrow and sometimes steep and winding cobblestone alleys . |
| 22 | As the pace of economic exploitation quickened in the nineteenth century the forests were depleted , the ravages of the woodmen being supplemented by the destructive habits of the goats kept by the peasants . |
| 23 | Two other directions taken in the 19th Century by the theory of groups should perhaps be mentioned . |
| 24 | There were indications that the method of manufacture changed during the sixth century , perhaps from itinerant craftsmen to workshops , implying a degree of centralisation . |
| 25 | A squat square chimney at Stone Edge , north-west of the village , marks the site of a lead-smelting mill established in the eighteenth century , and entertains a dubious claim to be the earliest industrial chimney in England . |
| 26 | He points out that , of the sixty-six English clubs founded in the nineteenth century , forty were limited companies before 1900 , and there were a further nineteen by 1914 . |
| 27 | Although of older pedigree , the modern law of confidence developed in the nineteenth century and then lay relatively dormant until the middle of the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Together with the Earls ; interests in the Manchester , Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company , this provided a source of urban and industrial investment as the town developed in the nineteenth century and an assessment will be made of their significance in the overall strategies employed in the management of the estate . |
| 29 | At one time confined to the south and east of the country , the stock dove spread as arable farming expanded in the 19th century ; but the introduction of organo-chlorine seed dressings in the 1960s was a disaster . |
| 30 | East of Manningtree on the Stour estuary , this village possesses a fine range of maltings built in the nineteenth century . |