Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the Regiments could trace its history back to one of the units which had fought in Indo-China or Algeria during the previous century . |
| 2 | Designed to ‘ foster an awareness of mankind 's common spirit ’ , it demonstrates that Japan in the twenty-first century will be ‘ dedicated to cultural development ’ , and even now marks Japan 's ‘ increasing responsibility in the international community ’ . |
| 3 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Through Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth century and Einstein ( and |
| 5 | As they conquered peninsular Italy and Sicily in the third century BC , the Romans took works of art and dedicated them to the gods at Rome . |
| 6 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | It was brought to Europe and England in the seventeenth century , arriving on our shores from Holland via the East India Trading Company . |
| 8 | The wars with France and Spain during the eighteenth century stretched over many years and disrupted plant exchange as did the American War of Independence in 1775 . |
| 9 | The exhibition presented by the Irish women 's group focused on Irish women 's lives in Ireland and Scotland in the last century , not on ‘ promoting and peddling pro-Irish Republican publications and propaganda ’ ! |
| 10 | Many of these open fields survived into the nineteenth century , those of Bygrave and Ashwell into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | It would be more attractive and viable in the late twentieth century , therefore , at least from the perspective of the Third World states involved , than the neutralisation regimes imposed on European states such as Switzerland , Belgium and Luxembourg in the last century . |
| 12 | This tradition began with Brian Twyne 's visit to Stamford in 1617 , was elaborated by Anthony Wood in 1674 , and by Peck and Stukeley in the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The more impressive the animal the greater the feud ; the fights between Professors Cope and Marsh in the last century over the dinosaur remains of North America include examples of double dealing that would not shame an oil tycoon . |
| 14 | But according to the earliest Church historians , the James and Jude of the second century were the grandsons of another , older Jude , who was Jesus 's brother . |
| 15 | CYRENE , AFRICA AND EGYPT IN THE FIFTH CENTURY |
| 16 | Small herds introduced into northern Canada and Alaska during the twentieth century are now flourishing and helping local economies . |
| 17 | The planners made much of the growth of the built-up area of Tyne and Wear during the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The Zino family , originally of Italian ( Genoese ) origin arrived in Madeira from Gibraltar and Morocco in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 19 | His garden became the pivot of plant exchange between America and Europe during the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | Trade with China from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo by the fifth century is well-documented ; the Philippines were involved shortly afterwards , while rice had been cultivated on Luzon , not far from the Negrito sites , since at least l400BC ; linguistic evidence also suggests long interdependence . |
| 21 | Out next spring is David Ryley Marshall 's study of Viviano e Nicolo Codazzi , a father-and-son team of landscape painters active in Rome and Naples in the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | He gave a stimulating programme ranging from the crystal clear Partita No 1 of Bach , through Schubert and Schumann to the 20th century Berg and Prokofiev . |
| 23 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 24 | The royal saint , beginning with the Northumbrians Edwin and Oswald in the seventh century , had been a recurrent and important Anglo-Saxon phenomenon , and tended to reinforce the fusion of monarchy and church . |
| 25 | As the Ottoman threat advanced northward through Bosnia and Serbia during the fifteenth century , Christian Europe prepared to resist . |
| 26 | Another of these stray Carthaginians who wandered between Greece and Rome in the second century B.C. is probably to be recognized in Procles , son of Eucrates , a Carthaginian , whom Pausanias quotes twice . |
| 27 | The letters of Gilbert Foliot , successively abbot of Gloucester , bishop of Hereford and London in the twelfth century , are singularly revealing , because they show us not only the range of a large family circle , but the strength of feeling which could exist between distant relatives . |
| 28 | McKeown 's main purpose was to take away from scientific medicine any credit for the decline in mortality which took place in England and Wales in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | In Portugal the French influence was strongest , led by Burgundy , and craftsmen and artisans had reached as far south as Lisbon by the mid-twelfth century . |
| 30 | There is an ancient variant in the Lucan version of the Lord 's Prayer , which is attested as early as Marcion in the second century and reads , ‘ May thy Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us , ’ instead of , ‘ Thy kingdom come . ’ |