Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 2 | Exhaust fumes from a new generation of " super Concordes " planned for the 21st century may threaten the ozone layer , according to researchers from Cambridge University . |
| 3 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 4 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 5 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 6 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 7 | The changes in the constellation of European powers which occurred during the eighteenth century had an indirect bearing on the destiny of the South Slav peoples . |
| 8 | In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century . |
| 9 | Further , because raw material imports rose through the eighteenth century while those of manufactured goods fell , there was an even more marked increase in volume than in value . |
| 10 | Like Eliot , Dawson emphasized the ‘ two Englands ’ created in the nineteenth century — ‘ the England of the fields and the England of the factories ’ — and wished to build on a common ‘ English tradition ’ which with some sort of religious sanction would take people Beyond Politics . |
| 11 | Thus when population and prices rose in the eighteenth century the tenant foreros sublet at great profits to themselves since their payments to the foristas had long ceased to represent an economic rent . |
| 12 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 13 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 14 | The biggest jump in this evolutionary process occurred in the seventeenth century with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , which led to the establishment of the doctrine of the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 15 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 16 | More legitimate traffic lingered into the twentieth century with the market boats , motorised in later days , continuing to collect fruit and vegetable produce and passengers until the 1930s . |
| 17 | The only exception to the rounded , impregnable exterior is the richly carved stone porch , added in the fifteenth century to the south side . |
| 18 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 19 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 20 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 21 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 23 | other resort towns came in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The death blow to the Aksumite kingdom came in the tenth century from unassimilated Agaw in the south . |
| 25 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 26 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 27 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |
| 28 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |
| 29 | This is the theory of social evolution which flourished in the nineteenth century from the stimulus of Darwin 's Origin of Species and which is most closely associated with Herbert Spencer . |
| 30 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |