Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | NETWORKING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PCs all in a row — cost savings take second place to the benefits gained from sharing information |
| 2 | New tales from Toad Hall could be appearing into the next century |
| 3 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 4 | Several previous generations of editors presented a picture of Shakespeare 's evolving genius based on complete plays jumping out of his head in a pattern of development that made those appearing in the seventeenth century ‘ more mature ’ than those appearing in the sixteenth . |
| 5 | What seems to be happening in the nineteenth century , in response to major social changes ( rapid industrialisation and urbanisation , the disruption of old class patterns and the rise of capitalist social relations , the development of new and sharp class conflicts with their related social and intellectual manifestations ) is a continuous battle over the definition of acceptable sexual behaviour within the context of changing class and power relations . |
| 6 | The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files , relating to the nineteenth century , into its relational database . |
| 7 | In Joanna Russ 's The Female Man , Janet , returning to the twentieth century from an all-female future , visits the Pentagon , and asks , ’ where the dickens are all the women ? ’ ( 1985 : 8 ) . |
| 8 | Reverting to the eighteenth century , in December 1783 , King George III selected William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister when he was only twenty-four years of age , and he remained in office throughout the troublesome years of the French Revolution which lasted from 1787 to 1799 . |
| 9 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 10 | In her book , The Prime of Your Life , Dr Miriam Stoppard writes , ‘ Living in the twentieth century means that we feel more stress than any members of the human race have ever felt . ’ |
| 11 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 12 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 13 | We perform a wide variety of choral music ranging from the 16th century to the present day . ’ |
| 14 | Lowther was interested not merely in profits , but also in ways of solving some of the immense technological difficulties confronting coalmining in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | A further problem with compensation theory is its neglect of the effect of unemployment benefit , not a factor needing to be taken into account by the earliest exponents of this theory , writing in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 16 | For example , Plato , writing in the first century AD , says that some regarded oreichalkos ( brass ) as being above silver , and more recently , in the nineteenth century , when aluminium first became available as an expensive novelty it was used in place of silver for prestige items . |
| 17 | Pure gold can be beaten out to form very thin sheets ; according to Pliny , writing in the first century AD , 25 g of gold could be beaten into 750 leaves each 10 cm square . |
| 18 | Writing in the first century BC , Cicero ( De republica , xiv . |
| 19 | Writing in the 12th century , William of Malmesbury provided further details : ‘ The villain of the piece was AElfthryth , Ethelred 's mother and Edward 's step-mother , who wanted power for herself and her son . |
| 20 | According to Dicey , writing in the nineteenth century , the British Constitution was " judge made . " |
| 21 | Writing in the eighth century the Lombard historian Paul the Deacon provides some additional information relating to the involvement of Childebert in the elevation of Tassilo as " king " of the Bavarians , confirming his influence outside Francia itself . |
| 22 | According to Eusebius , the Church historian writing in the fourth century , Thomas migrated north-eastwards , evangelising among the Parthians — the ‘ barbarian ’ people who occupied the region from the Tigris-Euphrates basin up through what is modern-day Iran . |
| 23 | Cornish historian Doctor Borlase , writing in the eighteenth century , commented on the Druidical significance of ‘ the Festival Fires , call 'd Bonfires … kindled on the Eve of St John Baptist and St Peter 's Day and Midsummer is thence , in the Cornish tongue , call 'd Goluan which signifies both light and Rejoicing ’ . |
| 24 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 25 | Writing in the mid-seventh century , probably in Burgundy , the chronicler known as Fredegar recorded the tradition that Priam was the first king of the Franks . |
| 26 | Writing in the sixth century the Gothic historian Jordanes knew of only one Roman squadron at the battle of the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 27 | Edward Lane , writing in the mid-nineteenth century , described the celebrations which still greeted the rising Nile each summer . |
| 28 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 29 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 30 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |