Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Your finger ring dates to the 15th century and is gold on silver .
3 Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth .
4 Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism .
5 One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water .
6 But then , as the new , more streamlined , machine slips into the twentieth century , moving smoothly and with a new confidence — and by now virtually everybody is along for the ride — it crashes catastrophically .
7 Despite the fact that the kanun thus in all likelihood dates from the seventeenth century , the biographical sources indicate that the principles , if not the details , embodied in it were at work in the late sixteenth century and very possibly earlier-as well .
8 Much of the main three storey mill dates from the mid-19th century , although a large part of this is masked by the addition of later industrial plant and buildings .
9 The hall dates from the ninth century and is divided in the centre by a row of four circular columns with simple leaf capitals , like the design in S. John 's Chapel in the Tower of London ( 300 ) .
10 British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography .
11 The original part of the farmhouse dates from the 17th Century .
12 Black has been the colour of evening suits since the 19th century , but in the Thirties , smart gents followed the Prince of Wales 's liking for midnight blue instead of black .
13 The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) .
14 In the pipeline is Silver and Gold , a Tom O'Connor-hosted games show , and a new drama series , devised by Border 's chairman Melvyn Bragg , about English/Scottish border bandits in the 16th century .
15 A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia .
16 ‘ It means that , since the de Sciorto title dates from the mid-sixteenth century , I come somewhere in the middle of the pecking order , ’ he grinned , his eyes lidded as he moved his gaze down over her defensively folded arms , lingering on the golden swell of her breasts at the button fastening on her T-shirt .
17 Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century .
18 A few examples have been found made from silver , which was a metal commonly used for finger rings in the 1st century AD .
19 In literature too , the period sees the increasing use of English , and although some bilingual ( or even trilingual ) writing occurs in the fifteenth century , notably in macaronic verse , the major authors , from Chaucer and Langland through Malory to Skelton and Wyatt , wrote entirely or principally in English .
20 BELOW : Iron Mill stood immediately below Longfords , and was an iron works during the 17th century .
21 The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye .
22 It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good .
23 The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century .
24 Maximilian Novak speaks of the eighteenth century as the ‘ Age of Disguise ’ , and Terry Castle treats the masquerade as a central metaphor of eighteenth century culture Leapor adamantly refuses to conceal herself .
25 The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann .
26 The church dates from the eleventh century and is magnificently decorated by fresco paintings in the narthex , dome , apse and on the walls .
27 The present church dates from the 11th century , with many fine features , notably the brick tower at the west end , the porch and the pulpit .
28 The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times .
29 Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century .
30 It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century .
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