Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss . |
| 2 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 3 | The trigonometrical ratios sine , cosine and tangent were used by Hipparchus during the second century BC to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy : 7900 and 238 000 miles respectively . |
| 4 | The twelve enamel plaques were made in Byzantium during the tenth century , but the roundels were made locally at Regensburg . |
| 5 | Q. Are you pinning a lot of hopes on Tencel for the next century ? |
| 6 | The family of Lad spread itself all over Kent , leaving Snodland during the 16th century . |
| 7 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |
| 8 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 9 | It was known to Paracelsus in the fifteenth century , it can be found in the fourth century BC in Hippocratic writings and is one of the principles of treatment in Ayurvedic Medicine which was written down over 5000 years ago . |
| 10 | The Herstmonceux/Wartling area is a very old site , a large colony ( 150 pairs ) being recorded at Windmill Hill in the mid-16th century , although detailed records for the colony only exist from 1835 . |
| 11 | The writings of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the nineteenth century provide one of the earliest critiques and explanations of the structure of power in capitalism . |
| 12 | The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot . |
| 13 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |
| 14 | Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles . |
| 15 | Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles . |
| 16 | situated in Ludgate in the City of London near Blackfriars , the church had been rebuilt by Wren in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD . |
| 18 | Internal dynastic disputes in Hungary in the fourteenth century , and the advance of the Turks into Serbia following the fall of Dušan 's empire , weakened Bosnia 's opponents and provided an opportunity for the revival of the spirit of independence . |
| 19 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
| 20 | So-called civilisation arrived in Sutherland in the nineteenth century , after the clan system had been destroyed by the disastrous machinations of Prince Charles Edward Stewart , Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 21 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 22 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 23 | In Ephesos is the modest-sized Temple of Hadrian which displays the Mesopotamian tradition of an arched lintel , a device introduced from Syria in the first century ( 133 ) . |
| 24 | Like many men of the muirlands and remote districts of Ayrshire in the 17th century , John was a fervent opponent of the imposition of Episcopacy on to the Scottish Kirk . |
| 25 | One variant known to have been common in Ayrshire in the 18th century was : — |
| 26 | , Sir John ( ante 1486–1559 ) , soldier and MP , was the eldest son of John Markham of Cotham , Nottinghamshire , whose ancestors had been established in Great Markham since the twelfth century , and his wife Alice , daughter of Sir William Skipwith . |
| 27 | The hope for a language which would express the essence of things rather than being conventional noises perpetuating old-wives ' tales is an old one , going back beyond Lavoisier to the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | In Portugal the French influence was strongest , led by Burgundy , and craftsmen and artisans had reached as far south as Lisbon by the mid-twelfth century . |
| 29 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 30 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |