Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 3 | Next to the church are the massive ramparts of the defended manor house of a Lord Ghilo who lived in the 11th Century . |
| 4 | William of Newburgh , who lived in the twelfth century , records a folktale about the large Neolithic round barrow known as Willy Howe . |
| 5 | But Manetho , who lived in the third century BC , wrote in Greek and his work must be regarded as Hellenistic in character rather than Egyptian . |
| 6 | The emperor Jahangir , who ruled in the fifteenth century , was said to have 12,000 war elephants in his personal army and over 40,000 in his entire kingdom . |
| 7 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 8 | legendary king of Assyria represented by ancient writers as having been an effeminate voluptuary who reigned in the ninth century BC . |
| 9 | which was probably the burial place of the East Anglian King Redwald who died in the seventh century AD. contained a wealth of fine metalwork including a sword . |
| 10 | But its opposition also had a base in the property-owning , rural peasantry , and middle-classes , who had in the nineteenth century paid a heavy price for their liberation from oppression and whose status became rooted in their property , land , and livestock . |