Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 31 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 32 | It needs , as a minimum , some complementary statement of aims of what the NHS should achieve as it moves into the next century . |
| 33 | It is simply a system that combines proven practices for healthy soil with the best in modern biological knowledge and one that recognises animals as living creatures rather than inanimate objects Organic campaigners look forward to the day when organic farming provides most of our food and surely this is the best prospect for agricultural policy as it moves into the next century . |
| 34 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 35 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 36 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 37 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 38 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 39 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 40 | It dates from the twelfth century and reflects the essence of Norman power and strength in architecture ( 282 ) . |
| 41 | It dates from the twelfth century . ’ |
| 42 | It dates from the eighteenth century and is built on three storeys , and , though no longer in commercial use , it is maintained as a working museum . |
| 43 | It closed in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 44 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 45 | Let us begin in the thirteenth century . |