Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for Orchomenos ' special role were geographical : she controlled the northern plain and Thebes the southern ; and also historical : Mycenaean Orchomenos had counted for at least as much as Thebes , and Orchomenos still had pretensions to lead Boiotia in the eighth century . |
| 2 | Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century . |
| 3 | Passing Baku in the 13th century , Marco Polo noted that the black oil burned well but was not good with food . |
| 4 | Don has made the trip from Hereford to Romania 4 times now and he 'll continue his visits in the hope that one day he can leave behind a modern farming system which will bring Moldavia into the twentieth century . |
| 5 | He learned that Tank had introduced Richter to Peron and the physicist managed to persuade the dictator that he could project Argentina into the 21st century ahead of its competitors and , in turn , make Peron appear one of the most enlightened leaders of the century . |
| 6 | They argue that democratic theory needs to be adjusted to the realities of governing Britain in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 8 | The Basques went into fishing , navigation , and finally into iron ; the Caracas Company that developed Venezuela in the eighteenth century was a Basque concern , the Economic Societies were a Basque invention and it would seem that the Basques were the best-read Spaniards of the late eighteenth century . |
| 9 | The Cossacks had crossed Siberia in the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 11 | The communications network established by Rank Xerox , for example , will be bequeathed to Andalusia ‘ as a contribution to technological development and to training a generation which will take Andalusia into the 21st century ’ . |
| 12 | In its draft submission to Mr Hunt , the Forum states : ‘ In developing land use policies which will take Wales into the 21st Century the principle of sustainable development has emerged from the consultation exercise as a vital issue to be addressed . |
| 13 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 14 | Taking Liphook into the next century |
| 15 | Yet there is no evidence that jade from this source was reaching China before the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | His family has ruled Morocco since the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | It is reported by collectors of folk customs , like George Ewart Evans , as a joyful pagan procession that reached Britain in the eighth century , and was later Christianised and celebrated at Rogationtide , the fifth Sunday after Easter . |
| 18 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 19 | Turania , an area of East Turkistan , now one of the Central Provinces of the USSR situated between Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea , spawned , it appears , gifted stone-masons , and at the request of the Emperor Asoka who ruled India during the third century BC , the Naga named Mahakala produced colossal images of Guatama Buddha and his two predecessors . |
| 20 | The family of Lad spread itself all over Kent , leaving Snodland during the 16th century . |
| 21 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |
| 22 | It is unclear how far this happened locally , although the family of Godwine , Earl of Wessex , had come to dominate Sussex by the eleventh century . |
| 23 | It 's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century . |