Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 2 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 3 | The display easel originated in the 19th century and was commonly used to show off a painting . |
| 4 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 5 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 6 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 7 | Around Stoney Street ( south-east of city centre near St Mary 's Church ) is a commercial complex built in the nineteenth century , occupying a considerable part of the medieval town 's former area , and now known as the Lace Market . |
| 8 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 9 | John Prescott , the shadow transport secretary , said the announcement confirmed ‘ further delay , uncertainty and planning blight with the line 's completion pushed into the next century , not the end of the decade ’ . |
| 10 | Now twenty-four important windows dated 1655–57 from the parish church in De Rijp , an affluent village of whalers and ship builders near the north Holland coast dating from the seventeenth century , are suffering from the effects of humidity and air pollution . |
| 11 | Arnside Tower , a prominent hillside landmark dating from the 14th Century |
| 12 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 13 | Mosley 's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession . |
| 14 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 15 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 16 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 17 | Your finger ring dates to the 15th century and is gold on silver . |
| 18 | A committee is to tackle the restoration of the small grotto constructed in the sixteenth century in the grounds of the villa celebrated in Borghini 's treatise , Il Riposo . |
| 19 | The place is identified in the town as the site of a castle of which no trace remained by the eighteenth century [ Eland , 1 , 92 ] . |
| 20 | The Central Library holds copies of the Evening News and Scotsman dating from the 19th Century . |
| 21 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |
| 22 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 23 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 24 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 25 | At the eastern end of the Ludwigstrasse the street opened out into a small square below the towering walls of the Herzogschloss , a massive fortification dating from the fifteenth century and set back only a few yards from the Danube . |
| 26 | ( a ) Sinusoidal projection , and equal-area projection developed in the 16th century . |
| 27 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 28 | It was a national architecture formed in the thirteenth century , |
| 29 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism . |