Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 2 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 3 | A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill . |
| 4 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 5 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold . |
| 7 | At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so . |
| 8 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | For example , all the work on Mediterranean societies notes a strong preference for marriage between cousins who are the children of two brothers , which contrasts sharply with traditional marriage customs in Britain ( and elsewhere in northern Europe ) , where the marriage between close kin has been prohibited , although the range of kin to whom these prohibitions apply has been whittled down in the past century ( Wolfram , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 12 | Stone carvings and whimsies had been plastered over in the nineteenth century , but some had now been uncovered . |
| 13 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 14 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 15 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 16 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 17 | The very idea of the ‘ liberal humanities ’ , as distinct from the sciences , grew up in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 19 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 20 | Thus it was Floridablanca , a stiff bureaucrat , who planned the road system radiating from Madrid , the completion of which was to be the achievement of Isabelline liberalism ; indeed , the fate of the Corps of Road Engineers , set up in the eighteenth century , was bound up with the fate of liberalism itself ; dismantled by Ferdinand VII it was set up by the Liberal Revolution in 1820 ; dissolved in the reaction of 1823 , it was re-established by liberals in 1834 . |
| 21 | It was dug up in the sixteenth century and achieved fame almost immediately , entering the imperial collections , and being drawn by artists such as Apianus in 1534 . |
| 22 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 23 | Yet hoards found elsewhere — in Scandinavia and in northern Britain , for instance , where no such royal controls operated — show that there was plenty of " international " trade going on in the ninth century . |
| 24 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 25 | Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The more rural regions of East Anglia , the South-West and , to a lesser extent the East Midlands , lost out in the nineteenth century , but their fortunes have taken an upturn in recent decades . |
| 28 | Salisbury had been laid out in the thirteenth century , rather in the fashion of the twentieth century garden cities . |
| 29 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 30 | To discover the electron is rather different from discovering the kangaroo , because it is a theoretical entity inferred from certain abstruse experiments ; and Thomson 's apparently crucial experiment turned out in the twentieth century not to be so . |