Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their plight was gradually recognized during the early 20th century ; from the mid-century onward it has been the role of administrators , teachers , health workers , economists and lawyers to unravel some of their problems and provide alternative means of living . |
| 2 | But this evidence still leaves a large gap to be filled between the early fifth century and St Cuthbert 's visit . |
| 3 | The Red Poll was probably developed during the early nineteenth century from a mingling of the meaty Norfolk Red and the famous milking Suffolk Dun . |
| 4 | The marital fertility of agricultural labourers actually rose during the late nineteenth century relative to other social groups , and this , together with their low levels of infant mortality , resulted in a large average family size . |
| 5 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 6 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 7 | Fuel-oil traces and power station fly-ash appear in the late twentieth century . |
| 8 | These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries , with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 9 | The overall level of criminal litigation dropped in the late nineteenth century . |
| 10 | At the old medieval naval base of Portsmouth the planned suburb of Portsea was added in the early eighteenth century to house the workers in the new and expanded dockyard . |
| 11 | At the back of this second tower a long range was added in the late 16th century , possibly to contain a spacious great hall , but little trace of this remains today . |
| 12 | To the disorder caused by pestilence , other pressures were added in the late fourteenth century . |
| 13 | Several historic houses are now museums , including the home of Christophe Plantin , who established Europe 's first truly commercial printing press in the 16th century , and the baroque mansion that Rubens built in the early 17th century . |
| 14 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
| 16 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |
| 17 | It has a baronial castle which was rebuilt in the early sixteenth century after fire destruction . |
| 18 | ( Sigriswil has a charming church of St Gallus , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century with a baroque interior . ) |
| 19 | Steffisburg has in its historic centre some buildings of considerable character : a church , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century but with a Romanesque tower that has a wooden belfry and spire ; and two adjacent buildings known as the Hochhuser , the larger of which is transitional between the Bernese farmhouse and the country mansion styles and has a hipped roof on a really magnificent scale . |
| 20 | Ordeals had taken place in or close to churches — the chronicler , Eadmer , writes in the early twelfth century of ordeals being conducted in the baptistery at the east end of Canterbury cathedral where former archbishops were buried — and so confused the ecclesiastical and the secular law , the law of the Church and the law of the State . |
| 21 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 22 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 23 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 24 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 25 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 26 | In shape , such apertures were roughly square , although circular openings began to appear in the early nineteenth century and are often a conspicuous feature of the brick-built Victorian estate barns of Cheshire . |
| 27 | Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Again , how were science and art demarcated in the early fifteenth century — — socially , intellectually and institutionally ? |
| 29 | One of the greatest centres of renaissance art , Raphael and Brumante were born here and it is surrounded by massive ramparts , set amid rolling hills and dominated by the superb 15th century Palazzo Ducale . |
| 30 | Below them came the jurisdiction of the thegns , apparently already organised by the early eleventh century in the districts that , as Norman lordships , were to form the later rapes . |