Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the pavement from the New Market Hall site , Gloucester , provides unequivocal evidence for a fourth century date , and this mosaic was in a fragmentary condition when discovered ( McWhirr 1974 , pI . |
| 2 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
| 3 | There is little detailed information for the eighteenth century , but the geographical pattern of investment was probably even more circumscribed than that revealed by an analysis for 1825 of 315 ships . |
| 4 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 5 | The Government 's objectives for UNCED are the signature of global conventions on climate change and biodiversity ; a statement of principles on forests ; a comprehensive plan for the 21st century ; a short earth charter of environmental principles ; and reinforcement of existing international environmental institutions . |
| 6 | Our chief source of information on Roman architecture for the first century B.C. is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio who wrote his famous work De Architectura , which he dedicated to Augustus , in 25 B.C. Vitruvius , as we call him , sets out his plans for an ideal Roman city in the first volume of his work . |
| 7 | Counties with some of the highest growth rates up to 1978 were in the rural extremities of southern England , Wales , and Scotland , a most unusual situation for the twentieth century . |
| 8 | But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) . |
| 9 | Despite these limitations the surviving evidence for the fifth century depicts the period in two radically different ways . |
| 10 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 11 | But they scarcely constitute a full toolkit for the 21st century . |
| 12 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |
| 13 | Re-visioning our economy is the opportunity James Robertson holds out in Future Wealth — A New Economics for the 21st Century ( Cassell ) . |
| 14 | He believes that B'nai B'rith Women 's determination to remain autonomous works against the trend of creating a new organisation for the 21st century comprising men and women . |
| 15 | He believes that B'nai B'rith Women 's determination to remain autonomous works against the trend of creating a new organisation for the 21st century comprising men and women . |
| 16 | The documents and articles look towards more democratic forms of communication and outline a new vision for the 21st century . |
| 17 | The question of the dislocation in the literary evidence for the fifth century can be approached from a different angle . |
| 18 | The law reports and local press for the next century made repeated references to armed affrays , and a large armed and mounted coastguard became a regular feature of coastal life , a ready source of special constables for panic-stricken magistrates in years of depression . |
| 19 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |