Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said in the nineteenth century government did very little . |
| 2 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
| 3 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |
| 4 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 5 | There may be problems and differences between the two sides of the House over the way in which we plan Britain , especially as we move into the next century . |
| 6 | As we move into the 20th century it becomes possible to tap the folk memory directly . |
| 7 | As we move towards the next century , voluntary organisations will need to develop further their contribution not only to our national life , but also to the international community . |
| 8 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 9 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | ‘ They campaigned throughout the 19th century for ladies ' lavatories , which were gradually introduced — but never on the same scale as the gents . ’ |
| 11 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 12 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 13 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |
| 14 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 15 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 16 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 17 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 18 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 19 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 20 | The deep ambiguities of the Prussian State as it existed in the nineteenth century , intellectually a part of Western Europe yet with a social and military structure much of which continually tended to align it with Russia , trace largely from Frederick 's reign . |
| 21 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 22 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 23 | It originated in the seventeenth century during the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 24 | Perhaps it started about the mid-fifth century . |
| 25 | He thought of the seventeenth century poisoner , Madame de Brinvilliers , who had run round the hospitals of Paris poisoning people for ‘ practice ’ . |
| 26 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |
| 27 | The BC system , extending backwards from the birth of Christ , was occasionally , used by Bede , but after him it lapsed until the fifteenth century . |
| 28 | The sound of the forge echoes around the village now as it did in the 19th century . |
| 29 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Well , he now has his stepmother to thank for the beautiful house that has been restored to look as it did in the 18th century . |