Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr J. C. Sainty 's analysis of posts in the Exchequer shows that in the fourteenth century the important offices of Chancellor , King 's Chamberlain , and King 's Remembrancer were all held by their clerical occupants during the King 's pleasure or during good behaviour . |
| 2 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 3 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 4 | He further asserts that during the nineteenth century litigants did not understand the way courts worked and were in awe of their proceedings , and that the intermediaries between litigants and justice , lawyers , court officials and petition-drawers , had little sympathy with or understanding for the average Sri Lankan . |
| 5 | Olwen Hufton maintains that in the eighteenth century the stereotypical spinster was ‘ … one to be despised , pitied , and avoided as a sempiternal spoilsport in the orgy of life ’ . |
| 6 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 7 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 8 | Newby ( 1979 ) argues that in the mid-nineteenth century the majority of people living in villages relied on agriculture for a living , either directly or indirectly , so that each village comprised an ‘ occupational community ’ . |
| 9 | As we saw in Chapter 14 , Michel Foucault argues that before the nineteenth century the sodomite was someone who performed a certain kind of act ; no specific identity was attributed to , or assumed by , the sodomite . |
| 10 | Merchant ( 1982 ) , for example , believes that from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , the scientific view of Nature began to change ; instead of seeing Nature as an organic and harmonious entity , it began to be seen as external and chaotic ; the role of science was to exploit it . |
| 11 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 12 | Scott claims that in the nineteenth century there were three overlapping , but not united sections of the upper class : landowners , financiers ( mainly in the City of London ) , and manufacturers . |