Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num ord] century [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 2 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 3 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 4 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 5 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 6 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 7 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 8 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 9 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 10 | Much of the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and both Cracow churches have lost some of their Medieval character . |
| 11 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 12 | This church was rebuilt in the twelfth century and is octagonal with an eastern apse ( 198 ) . |
| 13 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 14 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 15 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 16 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is the study of papers written in the fifteenth century or something |
| 19 | The nearby red Hereford was often fully finchbacked in the eighteenth century and so was the old Castlemartin of Pembrokeshire , later incorporated into the Welsh Black . |
| 20 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 23 | Ironically , though , they demolished an imposing volcanological observatory built in the 19th century and modernized under Mussolini in the 1930s . |
| 24 | A flax processing mill was built in the 19th century and some workers were brought over from Ireland . |
| 25 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 26 | At Tall Sukas between Tripolis and Laodikeia ( Latakia ) , the Danish excavator P. J. Riis found a Greek settlement with a temple which seems to have been built in the seventh century and rebuilt about 570 B.C. The Greeks remained at Tall Sukas at least until 500 B.C. to trade with Palestinians of any religious and national variety . |
| 27 | It was built in the seventh century and after several restorations was finally reconstructed in 1008 . |
| 28 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 29 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 30 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |