Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 3 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 4 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 5 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Pauper apprenticeship , like child labour in general , was not a particular novelty of the factory system , although its use in coal mining seems to have developed only in the nineteenth century and to have been largely localised to the Black Country . |
| 7 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 8 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 10 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 11 | The school established in East Looe , whose boys were dressed by a charitable fund in light blue coats and caps and were known as ‘ blue boys ’ , also was dissolved early in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power . |
| 13 | On the corner of the passage-way is the Purbeck Hotel , rebuilt early in the 19th century and seen in view of Victoria Terrace . |
| 14 | Of the structures of medieval Stockport , only two sections of the town walls ( of rough dressed red sandstone ) and the chancel of the Parish church ( in decorated Gothic ) remain : the rest of the church was rebuilt early in the 19th century . |
| 15 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 16 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 17 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 18 | The empiricism that had come out of the 19th century as the dominant intellectual mode had been twisted to the right , so to speak , by the ‘ white emigration ’ from Europe . |
| 19 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 20 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 21 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 22 | The social geography of the British industrial city changed considerably during the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The social geography of the British industrial city changed considerably during the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 25 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 26 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 27 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 28 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 29 | This is a colourful town at any time of the year , and one which has moved purposefully into the twentieth century . |
| 30 | And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable . |