Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same half-hearted recognition of the concept of human capital can be detected in government education policies during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |
| 3 | She gave an excellent and innovative lecture on ‘ Skills for the 21st Century ’ which stimulated a highly participative discussion following her presentation . |
| 4 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
| 5 | Rejected by Tawney ( 1912 ) , this has now been fully vindicated by Dr Kerridge , who has shown that the security conferred on the copyholder by the law was not inferior to that enjoyed by the freeholder , and that it was not a subject for dispute in the courts during the sixteenth century ‘ for the simple reason that the question had been settled long before ’ . |
| 6 | Any employee at Coniston Mines during the 19th Century would fall into one of two distinct categories : ( 1 ) a dayworker , whose wages were generally based upon a rate of so much per day but which was variable depending upon the degree of skill required , yet at times might be calculated on a piece rate , or , ( 2 ) a miner engaged in winning ore from the stopes , tunnelling , raising , or shaft sinking through rock . |
| 7 | Yet , as the British returned to Menorca as holiday-makers and emigrants during the 20th century , cricket returned with them . |
| 8 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 9 | In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose . |
| 10 | We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth . |
| 11 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 12 | Sheridan and Goldsmith continued to write comedies of manners during the eighteenth century ‘ with their famous plays The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer , and this tradition finds its most successful twentieth-century exponents in Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham ; Private Lives and The Circle are frequently revived by present day repertory companies . |
| 13 | Stanley Sadie , 1980 ; A. B. Emden , A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500 , 1957 ; D. Fallows , ‘ Words and Music in Two English Songs of the Mid-15th Century : Charles d'Orléans and John Lydgate ’ , Early Music , vol. v , 1977 , p. 38 . ] |
| 14 | The only really important nineteenth-century extension of European rule before 1880 had been the acquisition of a new African empire by France after the losses of the eighteenth century and the revolutionary wars . |
| 15 | Engineers and manufacturers of the nineteenth century had to keep an eye open for the rather too-well-informed casual visitor , making notes and sketches of what was going on . |
| 16 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 17 | The art of Gallienus ' reign recalled happier days under the emperors of the second century AD . |
| 18 | Portraits of the famous Roman emperors are known from a large number of other sources , principally sculpture , but for many of the Hellenistic kings or Roman emperors of the third century AD , coins provide the only portrait evidence . |
| 19 | We can see from their coins that the portraits of Roman emperors of the third century AD were individualised , but the identification of their three-dimensional portraits is still difficult because not many survive ( a result in part , at least , of the very short life expectancy of an emperor during this troubled period ) . |
| 20 | The Second Diaspora was more traumatic for the Jews of the twentieth century than the one which scattered their forebears 2000 years previously . |
| 21 | The outer concourse in glass and iron had its architectural roots in the exhibition halls of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The ceremony at Notre-Dame was one of the great royal spectacles of the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | It is the ideal place to forget the worries of the 20th century and step back in time , and the apartments offered at the Castel Cortevecchio all provide a relaxed and comfortable holiday base in the heart of this unspoilt , unhurried countryside . |
| 24 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 25 | Instead of seizing the opportunity to become one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century , he remains a rather shaky party politician . |
| 26 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 27 | Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century , they were soon outnumbered within them . |
| 28 | Partly to correct this omission , Edmund Blunden wrote an article in 1936 , ‘ A Northamptonshire Poetess : Glimpses of an Eighteenth Century Prodigy ’ . |
| 29 | But not all coins have been overvalued in this way ; for example , late Roman gold coins of the fourth century AD and British sovereigns of the nineteenth century were literally worth their weight in gold . |
| 30 | The political units of the ninth century were thus very different from those imagined by nineteenth-century patriots . |