Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 2 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 3 | Political uncertainty , after the Norse invasions which began in the ninth century , forced a need for protection for which services were given in exchange . |
| 4 | The latter , a uniquely interesting people distinct from all their neighbours both physically and culturally , were driven out of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin by the Russo-Japanese territorial conflicts which began in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The process of commercialization and industrialization in the newspaper industry which began in the 19th century thus continued to have an important effect on newspapers in this century as newspaper costs escalated , as new methods were developed to tap new audiences , to reach new readers , and to increase sales . |
| 6 | The growth which began in the eighteenth century had made the population more youthful by 1801 ; the normal consequence of any decline in mortality and increase in fertility ( figure 2.8 ) . |
| 7 | The pride and joy of the town is the splendid castle , which originated in the 11th century and has been restored through the ages . |
| 8 | The founder of this method , which thrived in the nineteenth century , was Auguste Comte.l We will first consider the nature of Comte 's thought and then examine its development by Durkheim . |
| 9 | Blyth was formerly a medieval fishing and salt-working village known as Blyth Snook , which grew in the eighteenth century to become one of the north-east 's great coal ports . |
| 10 | Several new female occupations which emerged in the eighteenth century , such as the hand-decorating of china or hand printing of cottons , demanded great dexterity and control . |
| 11 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 12 | What Schumpeter ( 1942 ) called the ‘ march into socialism ’ seems to have slackened its pace ; and socialism , which appeared in the nineteenth century as the ideal image of an alternative society , providing an indispensable unifying element in working-class consciousness , has become in the late twentieth century a more problematic reality ( Stojanovic , 1973 ; Kolakowski and Hampshire , 1974 ; Parekh , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | What both opposed was a vital popular culture , which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase . |
| 14 | In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations . |
| 15 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |