Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 3 | It has records of the older companies and boards , plus plans and letter books dating from the eighteenth century and onwards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 8 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 11 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 12 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 13 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 14 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 15 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 16 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 17 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 18 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 19 | Derbyshire Library ( Chesterfield ) Contents of general value are the Wyatt Collection concerning lead mining in the nineteenth century ; records of the Derby Canal Company ; and the Duesbury Collection on china and porcelain manufacture . |
| 20 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
| 21 | In the ancient village of Mulchelney you will find the second oldest monastery in the county , with buildings surviving from the 16th century . |
| 22 | Several recent works on British history have examined the development of craft production , consumption and the increase in material culture , with volumes concentrating upon the seventeenth century ( Thirsk 1978 ) , the eighteenth century ( McKendrick , Brewer and Plumb 1983 ) , and the results of the industrial revolution in the later nineteenth century ( e.g. Fraser 1981 ) . |
| 23 | Even today , most convicts are sentenced to ‘ rigorous ’ imprisonment , and , although some revisions are currently being made , the gaols in most states are run according to manuals dating from the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Cattle Stealing in the Twentieth Century |
| 25 | [ Dartford Chronicle , 25 February 1871 ; Ellic Howe , Newspaper Printing in the Nineteenth Century , 1943 . ] |
| 26 | The definitive account of this belief was presented in the Book of Daniel , written long after the return from the Babylonian Exile under the stress of danger from the Seleucids just before the Maccabean rising in the second century BC . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 28 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 29 | At Vergina in 1977 the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos , excavating the royal Macedonian graves of the fourth century BC at Vergina , found a bronze tripod dating from the mid-fifth century . |
| 30 | The original breeding population of this raptore in Sussex was exterminated in the interests of game preserving during the 19th century , breeding being last recorded in Ashdown Forest in 1882 . |