Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] century [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romanticism — the dream of the redemptive love that will bring heaven-on-earth , resolve all difference , end alienation — has in the twentieth century replaced religion as the opium of the people . |
| 2 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 3 | Newstead , known to the Romans as Trimontium , has in the present century yielded up wonderful finds including shoes , sandals , jewellery and the iron helmet of a cavalryman . |
| 4 | As is apparent with the Henry V film 's cuts and remodelling of the Shakespeare play , however , desires within the twentieth century mean that aspects of the Renaissance which do not conform with current needs are rendered silent . |
| 5 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |