Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [num ord] century [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 2 | MICHAEL MANN 's moved on from Miami Vice and back to the 18th Century for Last Of The Mohicans . |
| 3 | GAUCHE , OVER the top t'witching and ‘ woulding ham job with Julian Sands zapped way back to the 18th Century by Richard E Grant 's title character . |
| 4 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 5 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |