Example sentences of "[art] [adj] century [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the fourteenth century onwards the Church grew richer and more influential . |
| 2 | Until the fourteenth century only the Church was interested in temporal measurement and division . |
| 3 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 4 | During the second century AD the astronomer Ptolemy summarised all the geographical knowledge amassed in his Geographia . |
| 5 | In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity . |
| 6 | What I did not expect to find — and what I did find — was a strong Roman impact on the intellectual relations between Greeks and Jews or Celts or Iranians as soon as Roman power began to be felt outside Italy in the second century B.C. The influence of Rome on the minds of those who came into contact with it was quick and strong . |
| 7 | It is generally accepted that the Etruscans were of foreign origin , of a mixed Hellenic and Oriental culture , probably but far from certainly from Asia Minor , and that they established themselves in central Italy , in the area between the Arno and the Tiber , in the eighth century B.C. The civilisation appears to have developed and grown quickly and extensively and , by about 700 B.C. , the Etruscans were living an urban life in fine cities with wealthy citizens , and were capable of a high standard of building and visual and literary arts . |
| 8 | The great drain , the Cloaca Maxima crosses the valley from north to south and , after its construction in the sixth century B.C. the forum life began . |
| 9 | The technique by which in the fourth century B.C. the Chronicler rewrote and modernized the Books of Kings reminds us of the technique by which in the late fourth century Ephorus and Theopompus rewrote and modernized Herodotus and Thucydides . |
| 10 | In the fourth century AD the statue of Hercules was removed to the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire , Constantinople , which became a museum of ancient art ( the snake column from Delphi may still be seen in the Hippodrome ) . |
| 11 | Even in the first century A.D. the author of the Periplus maris Erythraei can not find a better accomplishment for a king of Ethiopia — to counterbalance his notorious greed for money — than his knowledge of Greek . |