Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sir John Harrington said in the sixteenth century : |
| 2 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 3 | The definitive account of this belief was presented in the Book of Daniel , written long after the return from the Babylonian Exile under the stress of danger from the Seleucids just before the Maccabean rising in the second century BC . |
| 4 | Palestine assumed the same level of international importance and sensitivity as the Balkans did in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | As a snub to the wealthy Philadelphia establishment , just before his death in a fatal car crash in 1951 , Albert C. Barnes willed the power to name four out of five trustees of this foundation to Lincoln University , a small , predominantly black college in rural Pennsylvania established in the mid-nineteenth century to educate former slaves . |
| 6 | Richard Rolle wrote in the fourteenth century of spiritual direction as ‘ full merry counsel with his ghostly Father ’ . |
| 7 | Bogomilism in Bosnia revived in the fourteenth century during the reigns of the Kotromanić rulers , Stephen II and his son , Tvrtko , who was crowned King of ‘ Serbia , Bosnia , the Primorje and the western lands ’ in 1377 . |
| 8 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | The only attempt to revive the Slav kingdom of Samo , which Ottokar of Bohemia made in the thirteenth century , was decisively crushed by the Holy Roman Emperor at the battle of Marchfeld ( 1278 ) . |
| 10 | The account of the Roman conquest of Britain by the Roman writer Tacitus , is certainly more " primary " than Collingwood 's Roman Britain written in the twentieth century , yet Tacitus was describing events in which he himself had not participated , though his father-in-law , and one of his key " sources " , was the General , Agricola , who had played a leading role in the campaigns . |
| 11 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |
| 13 | A nation which experienced years of defeat and disaster ( as France did in the mid-fourteenth century ) beat its breast in self-reproach and accepted war 's afflictions . |
| 14 | Understanding how the face of urban Britain emerged in the nineteenth century may pin-point how to tackle certain of the present problems , and , conceivably , identify the factors which set the die for urban life in the next century . |
| 15 | European penetration of Sri Lanka began in the sixteenth century , when the Portuguese established control over some coastal areas . |
| 16 | Northland prospered in the 19th Century from the logging , especially of kauri trees , and the digging of kauri gum . |
| 17 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 18 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 19 | There is little political controversy attached to the figure of the sovereign , for as Bagehot recognized in the nineteenth century , the successful constitutional monarch should be seen to be removed from politics . |
| 20 | It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history . |
| 21 | His arguments for the existence of God developed the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ of Anselm into the form which Kant criticised in the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | Peat cutting became a major industry in the Lancashire mosses in the nineteenth century , and on maps of Wicken Fen and Hatfield Chase , you will find ‘ Poor Piece ’ , which was where the local cottagers could cut peat for themselves , subject to regulations prescribing a limited season for peat cutting and insisting that a man may extract as much peat as he can , provided he does not employ assistance . |
| 23 | I would not , therefore , expect theism to have to rest its case on the sort of argument for God 's existence that Anselm advanced in the eleventh century and which has come to be known as the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ . |