Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 2 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 3 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 4 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |
| 5 | The population of Portadown increased more than tenfold in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Although later in the fourteenth century some limits were placed upon the vulnerable houses , those outside royal patronage which had once yielded to pressure had forfeited their immunity . |
| 7 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 8 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 9 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 10 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |
| 11 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 12 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 13 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 14 | The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement . |
| 15 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 16 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 17 | The railways in America could be built very quickly and cheaply in the nineteenth century partly because of the efficiency of the timber trestle bridge . |
| 18 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 19 | The equitable rules about penalties were , however , to a large extent already introduced into the Common Law Courts by statutes passed at the end of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | She was used as a model until far into the nineteenth century and was still carrying an admiral 's flag in 1848 . |
| 22 | In Constantinople the Porte , until far into the eighteenth century , paid to representatives of the western states a maintenance allowance ( ta'in ) graduated according to their rank . |
| 23 | MICHAEL MANN 's moved on from Miami Vice and back to the 18th Century for Last Of The Mohicans . |
| 24 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 25 | Mother churches tended to guard their privileges jealously and even in the nineteenth century some daughter churches and chapels were still dependent in some respects on the more ancient or more important mother church . |
| 26 | No , it 's it 's used it 's used in situations where an abbreviation can be made , or er , er , erm , an abstract symbol can be made , but again , this this was used normally in print , even in printing of novels and sermons and erm , and important documents , right up , u you know , up and well into the nineteenth century , before it was considered that that was not formal enough , and that the word and had to be written out formally Are there any words in this section which you ca n't find a modern English version of easily ? |
| 27 | Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century . |
| 28 | And no Tory government is gon na take away our Health Service from my grandchildren , who will be born in a National Health Service hospital and hopefully will enjoy the benefits and the care during the rest of the nineties and well into the next century . |
| 29 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 30 | The active principles of cannabis were not purified until well into the twentieth century , but one of Kraeplin 's pupils was among those who made early studies of mescaline , isolated from the Mexican Peyote cactus in 1896 . |