Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 2 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 3 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 4 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 5 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 6 | New tales from Toad Hall could be appearing into the next century |
| 7 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 8 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 9 | I accept the term " growth " on the basis of the probability that both population and ( though this is harder to demonstrate ) productivity were rising during the ninth century . |
| 10 | But then he realised he 'd lost the manuscript for a biography he 's writing on the nineteenth century painter James Whistler . |
| 11 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 12 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 13 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 14 | Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state . |
| 15 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |
| 16 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |