Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] century [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 3 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 4 | According to the Roman writer Pausanias , the temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed in the fifth century BC by Ictinus , one of the architects of the Parthenon . |
| 5 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 6 | Rebuilt in the twelfth century over a sixth century site the Church of S. Theodore is square in plan excluding a double narthex at one end and the bema at the other . |
| 7 | A few examples have been found made from silver , which was a metal commonly used for finger rings in the 1st century AD . |
| 8 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 9 | The enormous Spanish nobility , luxuriant with the growth of centuries , absorbed in the nineteenth century still larger additions of yet newer nobles drawn from the army , banking and politics . |
| 10 | The earliest recorded mention of Aksum is in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea probably written in the second century AD . |
| 11 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 12 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 13 | The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) . |
| 14 | The oldest layout at Pompeii is the Stabian Baths , built in the second century B.C. and remodelled later . |
| 15 | The temple had been built in the 10th century BC as an expression of the Kingship of Solomon in all his glory . |
| 16 | For example , Plato , writing in the first century AD , says that some regarded oreichalkos ( brass ) as being above silver , and more recently , in the nineteenth century , when aluminium first became available as an expensive novelty it was used in place of silver for prestige items . |
| 17 | Pure gold can be beaten out to form very thin sheets ; according to Pliny , writing in the first century AD , 25 g of gold could be beaten into 750 leaves each 10 cm square . |
| 18 | Writing in the first century BC , Cicero ( De republica , xiv . |
| 19 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is an exceptionally beautiful Greek vase depicting mobbing , dating from the sixth century BC . |
| 23 | Among the numerous artifacts uncovered was a miraculously preserved carpet dating from the 5th century BC , which survived because it was frozen in a block of ice after early grave robbers had broken the seal and allowed water into the tomb . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( c ) Unknown man : chalcedony intaglio in the traditional Republican style , made in the 1st century BC ( bottom left ) . |
| 26 | 8.8 Three images of a Chinese fang ding vessel ( OA 1973.7–26.4 ) probably made in the eleventh century BC . |
| 27 | probably made in the first century BC , from Alexandria . |
| 28 | The most recent acquisition is the baroque Graeco-Gandharan head of prince Siddhartha , dated to the second century AD , portrayed with curling locks and luxuriant moustache . |
| 29 | This is the base of a samian pot , and the potter 's stamp can be dated to the 2nd century AD . |
| 30 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |