Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that religious influence declines throughout the nineteenth century ( in the fields of work , welfare , education and government ) , and social disharmony increases as the gap between the poor and rich widens , the century remains essentially one of optimism . |
| 2 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 3 | A few examples have been found made from silver , which was a metal commonly used for finger rings in the 1st century AD . |
| 4 | In the pipeline is Silver and Gold , a Tom O'Connor-hosted games show , and a new drama series , devised by Border 's chairman Melvyn Bragg , about English/Scottish border bandits in the 16th century . |
| 5 | The Ionian cities were however less prosperous as a result of choosing Athens not Persia ; monumental building there declines in the fifth century . |
| 6 | Romanticism — the dream of the redemptive love that will bring heaven-on-earth , resolve all difference , end alienation — has in the twentieth century replaced religion as the opium of the people . |
| 7 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 8 | In literature too , the period sees the increasing use of English , and although some bilingual ( or even trilingual ) writing occurs in the fifteenth century , notably in macaronic verse , the major authors , from Chaucer and Langland through Malory to Skelton and Wyatt , wrote entirely or principally in English . |
| 9 | That is , I think , a somewhat tendentious description of the classic realist novel , and , in fact , writers like E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway , Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written fiction that answers to the twentieth century 's sense of moral and philosophical crisis without deviating violently from the conventions of classic realism . |
| 10 | Tillyard engages with the mid-twentieth century as he does with the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 11 | As is apparent with the Henry V film 's cuts and remodelling of the Shakespeare play , however , desires within the twentieth century mean that aspects of the Renaissance which do not conform with current needs are rendered silent . |
| 12 | Its roads still follow the paths laid down for — or by — oxcarts in the tenth century . |
| 13 | As a great many parishes had invested in new pulpits and lecterns during the fifteenth century , few were erected during Elizabeth 's reign , but following the issuing in 1604 of new ecclesiastical canons which ordered that ‘ a comely and decent pulpit ’ should be kept in every church , the reign of James I saw a notable upsurge in pulpit-building . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 16 | It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good . |
| 17 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 18 | The cows are not as good for milk as the Aubrac or Salers : there was crossing with Durham Shorthorns in the eighteenth century to help milk yields from an essentially draught-and-meat animal but this was discarded when it was decided to concentrate on beef from the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Neither became nation states until the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Beneath the city streets is a network of passages which were made as aqueducts in the thirteenth century , to carry water from local springs into the medieval walled town . |
| 21 | Peat cutting became a major industry in the Lancashire mosses in the nineteenth century , and on maps of Wicken Fen and Hatfield Chase , you will find ‘ Poor Piece ’ , which was where the local cottagers could cut peat for themselves , subject to regulations prescribing a limited season for peat cutting and insisting that a man may extract as much peat as he can , provided he does not employ assistance . |
| 22 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 23 | The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) . |
| 24 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 25 | Thus the earliest civilian activity belongs to the third century with the main stone buildings dated to the fourth . |
| 26 | Maximilian Novak speaks of the eighteenth century as the ‘ Age of Disguise ’ , and Terry Castle treats the masquerade as a central metaphor of eighteenth century culture Leapor adamantly refuses to conceal herself . |
| 27 | This project is a study of the origins of international trade disputes in manufactures since the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |
| 29 | But then , as the new , more streamlined , machine slips into the twentieth century , moving smoothly and with a new confidence — and by now virtually everybody is along for the ride — it crashes catastrophically . |
| 30 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |