Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascal , Blaise ( 1623–1662 ) A French theologian and mathematician , Pascal is most famous for his unfinished Pensées ( Thoughts ) , in which , by means of brilliant , pungent remarks , he attempts a vindication of Christianity through a series of perceptive observations whose psychological insight and aphoristic style anticipate the approach of the brilliant atheist Nietzsche in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 3 | The near absence of true hoards ( deposits of coin or metalwork in the ground not associated with burial ) in early Anglo-Saxon England until the seventh century may be taken as an important indication both of the role of hoarding in other societies and of the economic organisation of this period . |
| 4 | Portuguese missionaries brought them to East Africa from South America in the 15th century . |
| 5 | Perhaps even more destructive than these has been the effect of orchid collectors , particularly in South America in the last century . |
| 6 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 7 | At Pembroke College was Edward Wynn , one of the kindest dons to grace Cambridge during the twentieth century , and another member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd . |
| 8 | The construction of the temple of-Aphrodite in the first century BC must have required abundant material , and although it is plaus ible to assume that local stone-cutters did exist , more ambitious projects clearly demanded more sophisticated and skilled sculptors and architects . |
| 9 | An English scholar who visited it in 1887 – 88 found that the atmosphere was mediaeval ; politics and progress were scarcely mentioned , and the talk turned mostly on mysticism , metaphysics and religion ; the most burning political questions were those connected with the successors of the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century of our era ; only the most languid interest in external affairs was aroused by the occasional appearance of the official journals . |
| 10 | Harvey Gantt became the Democratic party 's first black Senate nominee in North Carolina in the 20th century when he defeated Mike Easley by 57 to 43 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | Research has shown clearly that a ‘ modern ’ pattern of crime control developed in Western Europe and North America in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | So wrote the historian Carew in the seventeenth century , giving the date 443 AD as the period of his reign . |