Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ) , |
| 4 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 5 | The Rule of St Benedict of the sixth century was a code written by Benedict for the use of his own monks . |
| 6 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 7 | So , for example , in the England of the seventeenth century , Anglicans , Puritans , Presbyterians and others all made the same appeal to the Bible ; but their different convictions about what the Bible was chiefly saying often seemed more prominent than their shared allegiance to it . |
| 8 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 9 | Tradescant 's father , also named John , was an ingenious gentleman gardener , the Gertrude Jekyll of the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Does America really need to leap a whole generation ahead in fighter technology , to build an aeroplane that can beat undreamed-of Russian fighters of the undreamed-of Russia of the next century ? |
| 11 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
| 12 | My conclusions , expressed in the last chapter — ‘ Venice of the Twenty-First Century ? ’ — have been reinforced by the events that have been taking place in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 . |
| 13 | Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events . |
| 14 | But according to the earliest Church historians , the James and Jude of the second century were the grandsons of another , older Jude , who was Jesus 's brother . |
| 15 | Up in the north , there was the occasional extreme Protestant rumble about the evils of that character ; but in general , the Britain of the seventeenth century was absorbed by more immediate concerns . |
| 16 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 17 | The most astonishing is the case of Rajput castes in Northern India of the nineteenth century . |