Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] from the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first church on the site dated from the 7th century . |
| 2 | Such difficulties of interpretation as the modern local historian may encounter are not , however , confined to this class of writing alone , as a single example taken from the sixteenth century will illustrate . |
| 3 | In doing this the government was employing techniques perfected from the sixteenth century onwards in the expansion of the Muscovite state towards the Black Sea and the Volga basin . |
| 4 | The establishment of serfdom conditioned the way in which the relationship between State and society developed from the seventeenth century onwards . |
| 5 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Most unskilled labourers were part of the indigenous working-class culture inherited from the nineteenth century . |