Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of post-mortem decomposition has been traced through the ninth century . |
| 2 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 3 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the context in which gynaecology and obstetrics developed during the 19th century was one of intense conflict among different kinds of medical practitioners , of tremendous change in the organisation of the medical profession , and of social and economic insecurity for many of its members . |
| 5 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 6 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 7 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 8 | Its administrative importance is certainly attested for the sixth century , and it probably continued , although evidence is almost non-existent for the later period . |
| 9 | OF THE more common festivals the most interesting of those mentioned in the Stamford Mercury is Plough Monday , which is reported during the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The truncated spire , echoing the spire at Porlock , was added during the nineteenth century |
| 11 | The trend towards a form of social colonisation was accentuated throughout the nineteenth century by the perceived otherness of the working class , condemned , it was believed , to sexual rampancy and immorality , and often even physically different from the more leisured classes . |
| 12 | Yet in fact the Church 's power was being eroded throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | This combination of class and status was carried into the twentieth century . |
| 14 | As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Kausmann shows how far we have come from the 19th century , when a girl 's linen box , full of beautifully embroidered monogrammed sheets , was part of her dowry . |
| 22 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The exterior was decorated in the eighteenth century with Baroque frescoes ( 865 ) . |
| 28 | Added in the 15th century , this three-stage tower is octagonal for its full height and has slender buttresses and a lantern top . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is known that the upper stage was added in the 17th century . |