Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] century and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1939 , for instance , in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of ‘ the stilted language that then passed for ‘ good English ’ in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles , Newbolt , the backwash of Lionel Johnson , Fred Manning , the Quarterlies and the rest of ‘ em ’ . |
| 2 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 3 | The Further and Higher Education Bill implements policies set out in the two White Papers : Education and training for the twenty-first century and Higher education : A new framework . |
| 4 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 5 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 6 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 7 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 8 | Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class . |
| 9 | It had been kept pure during the nineteenth century and was still thriving early in the twentieth century , but the heavy crossing took its toll and the old type was lost . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Organizations such as Dr Barnardo 's , the National Children 's Homes and the Catholic Rescue Society pioneered methods of child care during the nineteenth century and still play a very active part in the child care service . |
| 13 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 14 | Secondly , and in large measure because of its association with the development of capitalism , the nation state has been extremely successful , in terms of increasing both wealth and power ; its success being demonstrated by the ability of the nations of Western Europe and the US , during the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century to establish their sway over the rest of the world . |
| 15 | Spanish industrialization was relatively weak , late , and often under foreign control , and indeed the country remained a largely agrarian and underdeveloped society during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 16 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 17 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 18 | Terling 's population grew steadily during the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth . |
| 19 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro . |
| 21 | This view first became popular during and as a consequence of the Scientific Revolution that took place mainly during the seventeenth century and that was brought about by such great pioneering scientists as Galileo and Newton . |
| 22 | Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff . |
| 23 | During the seventeenth century and for long afterwards philosopher-humanists of Montaigne 's colour remained a small minority ; Shakespeare 's Caliban , beast rather than human being , was the common man s stereotype of the newly discovered savages of Africa , America and the South Seas . |
| 24 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 25 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 26 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 27 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 28 | Between the late-nineteenth century and the 1980s , there was a progressive decline in the occurrence of industrial confrontation only for it to dramatically reappear between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 29 | Between the 17th century and the present day , there have been hundreds of detailed sightings of terrifying creatures at sea . |
| 30 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |