Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] century [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 2 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 3 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 4 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 5 | This rise is dramatic , as is illustrated in figure 6.6 , which shows a steep rise in this age-group in the first half of the twentieth century and a levelling out at about 15 per cent from the 1980s well into the next century . |
| 6 | Thus it was at London , Bristol , Liverpool , Hull and Glasgow in the last years of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century that a " lagged response " to the great increase in trade was concentrated . |
| 7 | In Protogeometric an occasional animal is seen , haphazardly placed , but it is first in Attic Geometric of the eighth century that a figure-style is incorporated in the decorative scheme . |
| 8 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 9 | But it is important to see that the great European population changes which are almost entirely the work of the last century and a half are not just of statistical interest . |
| 10 | Showell Styles balanced the junior tales about Septimus Quinn with a sequence of adult novels built round a middle-aged naval officer who , at thirty-three , had moved only from midshipman to the unsatisfactory rank of acting lieutenant because of intermittent periods of unemployment at the end of the eighteenth century and a sad lack of useful patronage . |
| 11 | Wolf 's treatise on Homer laid the foundations at the end of the eighteenth century and a celebrated edition of Lucretius by Karl Lachmann represents the completion of the edifice in 1850 . |
| 12 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 13 | While the widespread building of town walls in the second half of the fourteenth century provided a measure of safety against marauding forces ( even against the Companies ) , such fortifications could not be ignored by an enemy bent upon conquest . |
| 14 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 15 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 16 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 17 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 18 | This concept of the extended garden , one which fell in line so well with our undulating country and expanses of fine grass , was to dominate horticultural thinking in the eighteenth century and a mutual exchange of thoughts and plants continually crossed the Channel . |
| 19 | The flat area to the south was drained at some time in the eighteenth century and a canal was built across it . |
| 20 | Alexander was probably right to think , as he evidently did , that he would be better off if Persia rather than Athens ruled the Aegean : within a decade of the establishment of the Delian League , Athens began the expansion in the north , and the attempt to settle Amphipolis , on the River Strymon , which at certain times in the next century and a half dominated her foreign policy to the exclusion of all else ( Thuc. iv.102 ; Σ Aischin. ii.31 ) . |
| 21 | What happened to all these small owners in the next century and a half ? |
| 22 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 23 | The remote origins of Emanuel School lay in the sixteenth century and a small charitable foundation for the elderly and the young . |
| 24 | Rural depopulation has occurred in the past century and a half , and will continue in the future , because of declining employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 25 | It 's been owned by a church charity since the 17th century and a nice little earner it is too . |
| 26 | As measured by the mortality index , the health status of the population has improved markedly over the last century and a half . |
| 27 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 28 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |