Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] century [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 2 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 3 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 4 | From 1981 the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome has contributed material from its bibliographical and photographic archives , expanding the scope of the Census through to the mid-sixteenth century and to include architecture . |
| 5 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 6 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 7 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 8 | Up to the sixteenth century or so , most people in Britain lived in the countryside . |
| 9 | 1985 : 1206 ) : ( 191 ) As the novels and tales lead out of the nineteenth century and into our own , we are made to feel more of the limited , contingent validity of moral claims and of collaborative endeavour . |
| 10 | The fact that we have bombed Iraq , a rather small Third World country , back into the 19th century or even earlier ; the likelihood of continuing violence in the Middle East ; the probable Lebanisation of Iraq and Kuwait the increasing difficulty in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem ; the increased threat of terrorism ; the erosion of democracy — all these issues will stimulate opposition to a long-term North-South confrontation . |
| 11 | If we resist the temptation to place the factory system too far back into the eighteenth century and consider the factory mode alongside other prior and parallel methods of manufacturing , it seems hard to deny that there was something of a supply-side response to an increase in demand . |
| 12 | Laugharne Castle dates back to the 12th century and Carmarthen Castle to 1109 , restored some 200 years later by Edward I at a cost of £169 15s. 6d ! |
| 13 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 14 | Beneath Denmark Street , west of the city centre , are extensive cellars , dating back to the thirteenth century and once part of an Augustinian monastery . |
| 15 | Their regulation can be traced back to the thirteenth century and subsequent legislation such as that of 1697 — ‘ An act to restrain the number and ill practice of brokers and stock brokers ’ . |
| 16 | Roughly translated it means new beginnings — it dates back to the thirteenth century and confers a purely honourary degree — something to put in a ’ Who 's Who ’ entry . |
| 17 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 18 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 19 | The buildings of the farmhouse date back to the 17th century and are occupied , in part , by the present owner , the English speaking Signora Elena Mancini . |
| 20 | CAMRA would prefer beer to be brewed solely from barley malt but the use of sugar dates back to the 19th century and many renowned beers , such as Marston 's Pedigree , have recipes that include 10 per cent or more brewing sugars . |
| 21 | An assessment of those walls , banks and groynes , published last year by the Department of the Environment , found that ‘ many go back to the 19th century and so , not withstanding that over £2 million per year is spent by the district councils on maintenance , heavy expenditure on renewals continues to be needed ’ . |
| 22 | The Government investigations paint a picture of decadent fraud flourishing in a climate of lax controls dating back to the 19th century and policed by professional advisors who paid insufficient attention to the task at hand . |
| 23 | In fact , until December last theirs was the largest private library of manuscripts in the world , with works dating back to the seventh century and texts of great importance to German history , the natural sciences , military history and the Grand Tour . |
| 24 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 25 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 26 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 27 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 28 | The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar . |
| 29 | The origins of Gdansk go back to the 10th Century and its historic centre has been preserved in its ancient style . |
| 30 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |