Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
| 2 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 3 | Across the road is the Convent of Santa Clara which was built at the end of the fifteenth century and rebuilt in the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | One recent example is the research on the bronzes excavated in the 1950s at Igbo-Ukwu in south-eastern Nigeria and dated around the tenth century AD ( fig. 6.9 ) . |
| 5 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 6 | situated to the north of Pall Mall near St James 's Palace , central London , and built in the seventeenth century on the site of the old St James 's Fields . |
| 7 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 8 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 9 | In the afternoon you will drive to Bhadgaon , 4,600 feet above sea level and founded in the 9th century . |
| 10 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 11 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Built in 1490 and reconstructed in the sixteenth century , this picturesque dwelling was reputedly occupied by the great Protestant Reformer from 1561 to 1572 . |
| 13 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 14 | [ J. M. Price , France and the Chesapeake , 2 vols. , 1973 ; Charles Wilson , Anglo-Dutch Commerce and Finance in the Eighteenth Century , 1941 . ] |
| 15 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 16 | Providing the general boundary was the Christian , Pauline , tradition , sustained through the institutionalisation of the Church , and fertilised from the sixteenth century by the Puritan and dissenting traditions . |
| 17 | Two great swishing wheels continually drive a mass of cogs and grinding wheels which crushed stone for putty and paint throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 19 | This opinion , which had a long Christian ancestry , was still widely held and propagated in the fourteenth century . |
| 20 | What emerges is a kind of fundamentalist dynastic priesthood associated with the principle of a Davidic Messiah and extending from the second century B.C. through the period covered by the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles . |
| 21 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 22 | Amethyst is concentrated at Faversham , in west Kent , and dates to the seventh century , whereas crystal and probably the wheel-thrown bottles of sixth century date are found in east Kent . |
| 23 | Your example is possibly a poor quality pewter with a rope border design , and dates to the 18th century . |
| 24 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 25 | This brick building replaces a stone Romanesque cathedral and dates from the thirteenth century onwards ( 565 ) . |
| 26 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 27 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 28 | The building is brick and dates from the fourteenth century , though with later fenestration and entrance doorway . |
| 29 | It is a substantial brick watermill , and dates from the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | The Trondheim episcopal palace adjoins the cathedral and dates from the twelfth century . |