Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Anna Pavord 's recognition ( 27 September ) of the opportunity for the twentieth century boldly to turn Uppark 's tragedy to advantage , is a more compelling argument . |
| 2 | A great deal of research in the field during the twentieth century has been carried out by scholars trained , in the first instance , as historians , with an equally significant contribution by a number of eminent scholars working in museums ; these latter tended to introduce a strong art-historical bias . |
| 3 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 4 | Despite Gregory 's account , the Merovingians can be seen as a dynasty which cultivated a complex political ideology during the sixth century . |
| 5 | The primary task that de Gaulle set for himself in 1944 and to which he devoted the rest of his political life was the reconstitution of the French state into a state that could unite the nation , mobilize its energies , provide vigorous leadership , and stabilize France 's erratic course through the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Where the vines are ungrafted they are normally cultivated en foule , following the system of vine training which was universal in Champagne during the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It was replaced with the elegant stone-built building during the 19th century . |
| 8 | Both networks , and in particular the Spanish one , suffer the legacy of the age of private railway building during the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Bury , reformed in Cnut 's reign , and Westminster , patronised by Edward the Confessor , may have gained much of their endowment during the eleventh century , but otherwise the Domesday picture was probably very similar to that which faced Cnut on his accession . |
| 10 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 11 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
| 14 | The parquet of the floors alternates with stone and the colours of the walls were chosen after innumerable trials : mostly pale grey and tobacco brown , with pale green for the Neo-classical works and terracotta for the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Like Apollinaire , they saw a rift between the old century and the new . |
| 16 | Britain 's partners : European partnership for the new century 42 |
| 17 | Britain 's partners : European partnership for the new century |
| 18 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 19 | This status group — the establishment — emerged as an important social and political force during the nineteenth century and has been seen as a central element in the ‘ antique ’ or patrician' character of the British state … |
| 20 | ‘ What do you mean by ‘ your planet ’ and all that talk about the twenty-seventh century ? ’ |
| 21 | Politically , however , their main effect during the twentieth century has been to make local government financially dependent upon the centre . |
| 22 | Between 1712 and 1716 the lots were sold to about twenty different persons : the same rents remained in force for the next century . |
| 23 | The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion . |
| 24 | Though the number of Russian diplomatic missions abroad tended to fall somewhat in the decades which followed his death — there were nineteen in 1779 and ( largely for reasons of economy ) only fourteen in 1800 — the country did not relapse into the isolation of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | Saturday of eighth week found her breathless and becolded , but heartened by the energy of third year Somervillians , bursting with ideas , talking of running B. R. and thinking of the next century . |
| 26 | Until the detailed investigative sources and court records that begin to appear in the reformed diocesan administration of the fourteenth century , we are almost totally in the dark . |
| 27 | For the Concordat , in theory at least , brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century . |
| 28 | Even the outstanding president of the twentieth century , Franklin Roosevelt , armed with a massive popular mandate and large majorities in both houses of the legislature , had grave difficulties in moving bureaucrats in the directions he , rather than they , wanted to go : |
| 29 | She was halfway round and beginning to fret when she entered the Fragonard Room and was briefly transported to a French salon of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | The Incas , on the other hand , were a short-lived civilisation of the fifteenth century which created an empire that extended some 3200 km along the Andes from what is now Ecuador to northern Chile . |