Example sentences of "[verb] exist [prep] [art] [adj] century " in BNC.

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1 The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them .
2 Hermitage has existed since the thirteenth century , standing within older earthworks .
3 At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) .
4 The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’
5 A different form of core appears to have existed from the third century at Godmanchester , after the creation of the open marketplace and the construction of the official ‘ Basilica ’ building adjacent to the mansio compound .
6 Given that the ideal of the companionate marriage had existed before the eighteenth century , it must be recognized that women 's position within marriage was inferior to that of men .
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