Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] century in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the changes in the British family reviewed in chapter 3 , there have been some dramatic changes during the twentieth century in British women 's work . |
| 2 | Here , the concomitant decreases in salt intake , gastric cancer , and hypertensive cardiovascular disease during the twentieth century in most industrialised countries are noteworthy but fall short of establishing causality . |
| 3 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 4 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 5 | During the seventeenth century in England " gilt plate " , its weight carefully graded to accord with the importance and traditional status of the ruler who , through his representative , was being honoured in this way , was the most normal gift . |
| 6 | Suppose , to take another hypothetical example , that a historian in the year 2100 is undertaking a study of that by then obsolete and quaint custom of preserving public footpaths across private land ; and he/she wishes to compare the strength of the ramblers ’ lobby during the twenty-first century in the south west and the north east of England . |
| 7 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 8 | Dissent in the county nonetheless survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers . |
| 9 | It is impossible to say whether use of the heavy iron ploughshare or the horse-collar became more widespread during the course of the ninth century in Francia . |
| 10 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |
| 11 | Certainly Freud was critical of the religious versions of reality which were generally accepted among the middle classes in the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America . |
| 12 | In their conclusion Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 , p. 541 ) suggest that systems methods have illuminated thought , clarified objectives , and cut through the theoretical and technical undergrowth during the third quarter of the twentieth century in a most striking manner but in addition : |
| 13 | It 's disgraceful , colleagues , in the later half of the twentieth century in John Major 's Britain we have private companies disconnecting the water supply to people , a basic necessity of life itself . |
| 14 | Indeed , in the early quarter of the twentieth century in the United States , interest in social survey research was far stronger among academics and activists in social welfare and social policy than it was among sociologists . |
| 15 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 16 | It supported the British state for most of the nineteenth century in Ireland , then supported constitutional politics for home rule ; and when independence came in 1921 , it supported the pro-treaty faction in Southern Ireland and opposed the civil war because that faction was the state . |
| 17 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 18 | The technique , however , is not new and Keating 's Into Unknown England , 1866–1913 contains several fascinating accounts of similar participant studies by social observers of the nineteenth century in workhouses and cheap lodging houses . |
| 19 | Robert Page , who came to the island at the beginning of the nineteenth century in 1804 joined the firm of Joseph Phelps , which later became Phelps & Page . |
| 20 | In what promises to be a fascinating collection of thirty-four essays , American and German scholars chart the emergence of New York and Berlin as parallel centres of artistic and technological innovation at the end of the nineteenth century in Berlin — New York : Unlike and Unlike : Essays on Art and Architecture from 1870 to the Present edited by Josef Paul Kelihues ( £60 ) . |
| 21 | This dominance in modern times is attributed by Hayek to the success of the Philosophical Radicals of the nineteenth century in replacing the ideal of government under law with the ideal of a government controlled by a popular assembly and free to take any action of which that assembly approved . |
| 22 | It was a key element in the dominant ideology of the nineteenth century in all the major capitalist countries . |
| 23 | Early mining of the concealed coal measures in Nottinghamshire occurred to the northeast of the county town , with later expansion at the end of the nineteenth century in the Mansfield area ( Waller , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | Class conflict , when it broke out during the final quarter of the nineteenth century in the North and West , took the form of ‘ tenant right ’ , the demand by tenant farmers for greater security and the guarantee of their other interests against those of their landlords . |
| 25 | The last three decades of the nineteenth century in Britain were to see a similar move on the part of the working class , desirous of experiencing the benefit of sea air and sea water , the chance of amusement and relaxation from their work , or just a change of scene from the grim tenements and back-to-back houses in which they lived , and the mills and factories in which they toiled . |
| 26 | These corps arose from the middle of the nineteenth century in response to the chronic insecurity caused by a Spanish version of the ‘ spoils system ’ : each change of government would lead to the replacement of all those appointed under the previous government by individuals loyal to the new party in power . |
| 27 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 28 | Long extracts from the inspectors ' reports conjure up the smells of the 17th century in sickening detail : the open graves , the streets piled high with faeces , the butcher 's shop ‘ full of all kinds of filth , excrement , guts and other muck ’ , and so on . |
| 29 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 30 | A staggering transformation has occurred in the course of the 20th Century in the ambit of statutory provisions regarding company accounts , as will be apparent to anyone who compares the exiguous provisions in the 1908 Act with the profusion of sections and Schedules in the Companies Act 1985 as amended , supplemented and re-arranged by the 1989 Act . |