Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , it is necessary to define what should be considered as bribery in the context of the period , rather than as it might be regarded in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Historically , Karajan is a conductor of pivotal significance , steeped as a child and as a young man in music-making of the great Austro-German tradition , but the first great conductor to be reared in the twentieth century 's brave new technological age . |
| 3 | The empire of Charlemagne was divided in the ninth century , and its eastern division came to be dominated in the tenth century by the now Christianized Saxons . |
| 4 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 5 | Completed in 1876 , the hotel was extolled in its day — one commentator called it ‘ the most perfect in every possible respect in the world ’ — and came to be vilified in the twentieth century as a monument to Victorian bad taste . |
| 6 | To meet this demand springs began to be used in the fifteenth century in place of weights as the source of motive power in clocks . |
| 7 | How many of these obligations could still be demanded in the seventh century , we do not know , although there are references to tax concessions granted to Tours by Dagobert I ( 623/9 — 39 ) , to the city of Bourges by Clovis II ( 634 – 57 ) , and to families exposing children in order to avoid public exactions in the Life of his queen , Balthild . |
| 8 | It had to be rediscovered in the 18th century . |
| 9 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |
| 10 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 11 | This was to be the start of a long debate which would be continued in the seventh century with the growth of concessions of immunity from episcopal intervention to particular monastic foundations . |
| 12 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 13 | He accepts the evidence that there has been a drying-out in the continental interiors affecting both the United States and the Soviet Union and then qualifies his acceptance by suggesting that it will be remedied in the next century by greater precipitation . |
| 14 | The culminating symbol of so much diverse activity was to be achieved in the thirteenth century , when the independent cities , led by those of Flanders , erected fine belfries so that their bells should rival those of the churches in summoning the flock to meet . |
| 15 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |