Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 3 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 4 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 6 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 7 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 8 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |
| 9 | By contrast with what it saw as the corrosive and unbelieving spirit of the age , that movement was deeply concerned to recover and reinstate the ancient doctrines of the faith , especially the great dogmas hammered out in the early centuries ; and with them to restore the sense of continuity and rich unbroken tradition which found its expression especially in ritual and liturgy . |
| 10 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 12 | It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold . |
| 13 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 14 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 15 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 16 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 17 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 18 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 19 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 20 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 21 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 23 | The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades . |
| 24 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 25 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 27 | The very idea of the ‘ liberal humanities ’ , as distinct from the sciences , grew up in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 29 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 30 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |