Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we are seeing , as an evolution ( the origins of which can be traced to the nineteenth century ) , the emergence of a genuine hybrid tribunal , in which case to suggest that this body is a further example of the use of judges for extrajudicial activities is only one way to describe it . |
| 2 | One obvious aspect of this was the attention which continued to be given throughout the seventeenth century to the public entry of a newly arrived ambassador to the capital in which he was taking up his post . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Suggesting how Britain 's future military strategy might be developed into the twenty-first century is the main purpose of this book on post-imperial Defence policy . |
| 6 | These were exemplified in the Government 's Broadcasting Bill which became law last October , but in reality can not be resolved until the next century . |
| 7 | In finance , the crude picture in Herodotus ' list of the Tributes ( iii.89ff. ) and depicted on the reliefs at Persepolis — huge quantities of bullion brought by subject peoples — must be modified by the fourth century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |
| 10 | This is the base of a samian pot , and the potter 's stamp can be dated to the 2nd century AD . |
| 11 | Both of these designs can be dated to the fourth century , ( Morley-Hewitt 1969 , 2 ) and so might be contemporary with the northern sequence ( see section 3.2 pp. 85-86 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Again , as discussed in the Introduction , medieval towns continued to be founded until the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | However , in the case of a more substantial discovery requiring greater appraisal and investment in development , no output could be anticipated before the 21st century . |
| 17 | ‘ As a result , important gas reserves will now be produced into the next century , benefiting the local population and completing an investment for LASMO which — Inshallah ! — has every prospect of providing well-earned profits in due course . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had to be rediscovered in the 18th century . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The ‘ simpliciter ’ collection is simple indeed — four parts , the highest carrying the melody — but the ‘ fugue-wise ’ ones treat the successive phrases of the hymn in motet style on lines that were to be followed throughout the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some have suggested that the time of death should be postdated to the ninth century , arguing that while the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ) saw a last futile effort to revive a state-run fiscal system , rigor mortis finally set in with the new barbarian onslaughts of Vikings and Saracens . |
| 24 | There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A visitor can wander through rooms which reincarnate life as it used to be lived over the last centuries . |
| 30 | 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 . |