Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the late [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marital fertility of agricultural labourers actually rose during the late nineteenth century relative to other social groups , and this , together with their low levels of infant mortality , resulted in a large average family size . |
| 2 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 3 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 4 | Fuel-oil traces and power station fly-ash appear in the late twentieth century . |
| 5 | These questions have preoccupied fine minds for centuries , with interest intensifying from the late nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 6 | The overall level of criminal litigation dropped in the late nineteenth century . |
| 7 | At the back of this second tower a long range was added in the late 16th century , possibly to contain a spacious great hall , but little trace of this remains today . |
| 8 | To the disorder caused by pestilence , other pressures were added in the late fourteenth century . |
| 9 | ( Sigriswil has a charming church of St Gallus , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century with a baroque interior . ) |
| 10 | Steffisburg has in its historic centre some buildings of considerable character : a church , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century but with a Romanesque tower that has a wooden belfry and spire ; and two adjacent buildings known as the Hochhuser , the larger of which is transitional between the Bernese farmhouse and the country mansion styles and has a hipped roof on a really magnificent scale . |
| 11 | However , space and time barriers also crumbled in the late nineteenth century through the electric telegraph and the early telephone and radio ; moreover the cinema film also featured easy transportability , while its scale economies quickly led to early single nation dominance ( by France ) . |
| 12 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 13 | An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds . |
| 14 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 15 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 16 | The point is echoed by McKendrick who argues that as well as " the many who suffered during the late eighteenth century , and even more in the later stages of industrialisation , there were those who gained " . |
| 17 | There was growing dissatisfaction with the Church and in particular with the way it was developing in the late twelfth century . |
| 18 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 19 | Justin Simpson , in his Historical Sketches in the Stamford Mercury written in the late nineteenth century , reflects that ‘ such a satisfactory and speedy termination to a law suit rarely falls to the lot of man to witness in these degenerate days ’ . |
| 20 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 21 | In September 1848 Moscow University 's Society of Russian History and Antiquities published a translation of Giles Fletcher 's Of the Russe Commonwealth , a description of Muscovy written in the late sixteenth century . |
| 22 | The original clock and watchmaker business expanded in the late 19th century and a separate clock factory was set up in Robert Street , Middlesbrough to cope with the demand . |
| 23 | The houses ran in long terraces , built in the late nineteenth century to house the workers and their families in this thriving industrial centre . |
| 24 | Built in the late 19th century , it had been hardly touched since . |
| 25 | Marsh Farm was built in the late 19th century by James Formby , the Formby family were well known in Halling during the whole of the 19th century through their connection with the cement industry and were also active members like the Linghams in village life . |
| 26 | It had been built in the late eighteenth century , two storeys high , shallow slate roof , red brick , seven windows set in ashlar along the upper floor , six below and the front door set centrally under a portico and pillared porch . |
| 27 | To its left the church of La Compañia de Jesus , built in the late seventeenth century on the site of the Palace of Serpents , had a similarly ornate façade . |
| 28 | The masterpiece of the monastery was the centrally placed Cathedral of the Assumption , built in the late twelfth century and , due to its fine proportions and construction , used many times as a model to later churches . |
| 29 | Built in local ironstone with its rich orangey colour this listed building made in the shape of an octagonal lantern was built in the late 18th Century as a lodge to Fawsley Hall . |
| 30 | The castle was built in the late 18th century then extensively restored and altered in 1872–1875 . |