Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 3 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 6 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 7 | ( After the fall of the Greek Empire , the knowledge of many arts , including the art of horsemanship , gradually disappeared and did not re-emerge until the sixteenth century . ) |
| 8 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The robe , too , is painted in Prussian blue , a pigment not introduced until the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | These meetings were often passionate affairs : the deadening decorum which in the twentieth century has come to be identified with religious gatherings did not prevail in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Why did these large pits near the coast not exist in the last century ? |
| 12 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The west doorway , richly decorated with sculptured figures , is in late Gothic style , but was not constructed till the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | But what of the notion that pubs wo n't survive into the next century ? |
| 15 | The Kerry babies story did n't happen in the 19th century . |
| 16 | No , it wo n't go into the next century , but it will , it would of done back |