Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ . |
| 2 | Raglan Castle belongs mainly to the 15th century and was as much a product of social grandeur , as it was military necessity . |
| 3 | That most terrible of the stories of divine punishment out of all mortal proportion to the offence appears often in the fifth century , like the punishment of Act aeon , and evidently had a powerful meaning for the time . |
| 4 | Reservoirs like Talla created at the beginning of the century and , more recently , Meggett in the 1980s guarantee supplies well into the next century . |
| 5 | We do not know , however , how old Lettaford is ( the oldest longhouse dates only to the sixteenth century ) or what its earlier arrangements were . |
| 6 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 8 | It dates largely from the 18th century and straddles the Ampney Brook , which powers the internal wheel . |
| 9 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 10 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 11 | Dates probably from the eighteenth century , and apparently the Danes also used the music to our National Anthem at one stage . |
| 12 | The windmill in full working order on the heath is a post mill of 1665 , the earliest mill still operable , though its machinery dates mainly from the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world . |