Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its reputation was lifted in the sixteenth century , when Marguerite de Navarre came here and ( perhaps ) wrote some of her Heptameron , as a respite from the rigours of the cure , before the atrocious weather — in the prologue she quickly complains of the rainfall in Cauterets — drove her down to Sarrance . |
| 2 | The first of these was the intense interest in , and massive support for , subject-based curriculum change particularly in Mathematics and Science which originated in the late nineteen-fifties in the United States , largely as a result of a realisation of the enormous gaps which were opening between what university research workers were examining and what schools taught , between the demands of a computer based technology and the realities of a curriculum designed in the nineteenth century to serve a nation of shopkeepers . |
| 3 | According to the Roman writer Pausanias , the temple of Apollo Epicurius was designed in the fifth century BC by Ictinus , one of the architects of the Parthenon . |
| 4 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 5 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |
| 6 | Political citizenship rights , notably the right to vote and to stand for election , were won in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth as the Representation of the People Acts extended the franchise by stages until universal adult suffrage had been achieved . |
| 7 | A report in the journal Nature by a group of British scientists predicts that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere , which is expected in the next century , could lead to 100 per cent destruction of ozone in the lower stratosphere over the Arctic and northern Europe . |
| 8 | The Godiva story was probably concocted in the thirteenth century , because the first account is that of Roger of Wendover in 1236 , while Florence of Worcester , writing about Leofric and Godiva in 1118 , fails to include any reference to the story . |
| 9 | In the early twelfth century this was in fact the cathedral town of the Ross diocese , superseded in the following century by Fortrose . |
| 10 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route by which cattle from Scotland and the North of England reached the Midland pastures and London : hence its later name of The Drift . |
| 11 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 12 | Added in the 15th century , this three-stage tower is octagonal for its full height and has slender buttresses and a lantern top . |
| 13 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 14 | It is known that the upper stage was added in the 17th century . |
| 15 | An elaborate canopy was added in the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 17 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 18 | Originally built in Romanesque style , a Gothic choir and aisles were added in the fourteenth century , making it into a hall church . |
| 19 | My roots and my family 's have gone deeply into the fields and woods which the General must have owned in the 18th Century . ’ |
| 20 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 21 | The Gild Merchant was remodelled in the fifteenth century as the religious Gild of St George , but the power of the principal citizens continued to increase . |
| 22 | Beside the church is Palazzo Gallarati-Scotti , a sixteenth-century building , substantially remodelled in the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | It was rebuilt in the 19th century as an extravagant and idealized vision of the Middle Ages for the third Marquis of the Bute by the architect William Burges . |
| 24 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 25 | Much of the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and both Cracow churches have lost some of their Medieval character . |
| 26 | The eastern arm was rebuilt in the thirteenth century on to a Romanesque nave . |
| 27 | At Bayeux the choir was rebuilt in the thirteenth century on to an earlier nave , presenting a fine composition from the east ( 432 ) . |
| 28 | Rebuilt in the mid-18th Century , it stands on the site of an earlier house in which Charles I is said to have stayed before the Battle of Edgehill . |
| 29 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 30 | It has a single dome ( rebuilt in the sixteenth century ) supported on four piers and a tri-apsidal east end . |