Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 2 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 3 | A new sensitivity to the subject is suggested by the series of laws and practices concerning it in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next . |
| 5 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 6 | are the relatively simple techniques relating to the facts about costs and outputs — numbers of staff , numbers of applications dealt with capable of being developed to deal with far more complex questions about outcomes : what did this activity actually achieve , in terms of modernizing British industry … improving the nation 's health , or educating it for the 21st century ? |
| 7 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 8 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 9 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 10 | Evidencve of the original hospital is fading as new building and departments take it into the next century . |
| 11 | They were to continue to dominate it until the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen . |