Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Eisenman demonstrates , the legitimacy of the high priesthood — of Zadok or of the Zadok — was resuscitated by the Maccabeans , the last dynasty of Judiac kings , who ruled Israel from the second century B.C. until Herodian times and the Roman occupation . |
| 2 | The Basques went into fishing , navigation , and finally into iron ; the Caracas Company that developed Venezuela in the eighteenth century was a Basque concern , the Economic Societies were a Basque invention and it would seem that the Basques were the best-read Spaniards of the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 4 | It is reported by collectors of folk customs , like George Ewart Evans , as a joyful pagan procession that reached Britain in the eighth century , and was later Christianised and celebrated at Rogationtide , the fifth Sunday after Easter . |
| 5 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 6 | Turania , an area of East Turkistan , now one of the Central Provinces of the USSR situated between Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea , spawned , it appears , gifted stone-masons , and at the request of the Emperor Asoka who ruled India during the third century BC , the Naga named Mahakala produced colossal images of Guatama Buddha and his two predecessors . |
| 7 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |