Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 2 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 3 | The castle , silhouetted against the sky , was first built in the thirteenth century , but was destroyed in 1350 in one of the local quarrels of the period . |
| 4 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | First built in the twelfth century , the Kremlin is ringed with high crenellated walls and crowned with the golden domes of the cathedrals . |
| 6 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 7 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |
| 8 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 10 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 12 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 13 | It was first recorded in the nineteenth century in the inventories of the Corsini collection , Florence , where it is last noted in 1880 , leaving Italy ‘ well before the current laws went into effect ’ , as Getty paintings curator George Goldner points out . |
| 14 | The new building was an Anglian settlement , the name first recorded in the 10th century . |
| 15 | Amongst them is quaint Braemar , home of the famous Highland games , first held in the 10th century … friendly Ballater , where many of the local shops proudly display the Royal Warrant … and of course the Royal fairy-tale castle of BALMORAL , nestling in the lush pine forests of the Dee Valley which is open May , June and July . |
| 16 | The Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard on the River Medway was first established in the 16th century . |
| 17 | Wild boars are roaming woodland they last inhabited in the fifteenth century . |