Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 3 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 4 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly land-use practices influence flooding and erosion , but ignoring the impact of natural processes in the search for a human scapegoat is not going to pre-empt the potential land crisis of the Himalaya in the twenty-first century . |
| 6 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 7 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 8 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 9 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 10 | The first stone ridge was built over the Vltava in the 12th century . |
| 11 | Shipping lines continued to carry emigrants across the Atlantic during the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Eastern influences also dominated the Serbs in the ninth century . |
| 13 | This amalgam of experience will embody itself in the final shape and fitting of a lifeboat that is designed to take the RNLI into the 21st century . |
| 14 | ‘ I do believe that when you are leading the BBC into the next century at the age of 73 , it is bizarre . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do believe that when you are leading the BBC into the next century at the age of 73 , it is bizarre . ’ |
| 16 | Isidora had drowned in the Nile in the second century AD . |
| 17 | The Celts , who migrated into the Balkans in the fourth century BC and settled mainly in the northern lowlands , became assimilated into the Illyrian community , the chief legacy of their presence being numerous Celtic elements in place names . |
| 18 | When the Romans first began to expand into the Balkans in the third century BC , the area was inhabited by Thracian , Illyrian and Celtic tribes . |
| 19 | Estimates based on contemporary data suggest that about 90 per cent of the population of the Balkans in the sixteenth century lived in rural areas . |
| 20 | The tension between the rights of parents , of their children , and of the state , which attracted increasing legislative attention in the UK during the nineteenth century , continues to be demonstrated in the concerns of pressure groups in recent years . |
| 21 | These amazing horns were neither described , illustrated nor found in skeletal remains in the UK before the eighteenth century and there is a theory that they resulted from Bakewell 's intensive inbreeding methods . |
| 22 | In itself it is not a new idea , and it shares much with the combined method which was the basis for deaf education in the UK in the 19th century . |
| 23 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
| 24 | A Byzantine historian remarked of the Franks in the sixth century that ‘ although they have become Christians , they still keep a greater part of their ancient religion ’ . |
| 25 | The name ‘ flag ’ may originate from the plant having first been used as a heraldic device by Clovis , king of the Franks in the 5th century . |
| 26 | Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights . |
| 27 | Up in the north , there was the occasional extreme Protestant rumble about the evils of that character ; but in general , the Britain of the seventeenth century was absorbed by more immediate concerns . |
| 28 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 29 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 30 | The nature of Russia 's ‘ conquest ’ , ‘ subjugation ’ , ‘ annexation ’ or ‘ assimilation ’ of Siberia has been the subject of a good deal of historical debate , and is indeed discussed briefly in some of the following chapters , particularly those by Basil Dmytryshyn , David Collins and James Forsyth — the last concentrating on the ambiguous impact of the incoming Slavs on the aboriginal Siberian peoples — but what is important to underline in this introductory essay is that Muscovy 's expansion from the Urals to the Pacific in the seventeenth century was in a sense the territorial and colonial complement to the institutional consolidation of the political power of the Russian autocratic state . |