Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 2 | Both are very fine buildings , and the Pagoda dates from the 8th century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maximilian Novak speaks of the eighteenth century as the ‘ Age of Disguise ’ , and Terry Castle treats the masquerade as a central metaphor of eighteenth century culture Leapor adamantly refuses to conceal herself . |
| 5 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 6 | STOP PRESS : Due to genuine public demand , we are currently in the process of getting together a bunch of our classic compilations for reissue on CD ( NME leaps into the 20th Century ! ) in the near future . |
| 7 | 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 . |