Example sentences of "and [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this time the permanent mass party became the dominant factor in the politics of Western capitalist societies , and during the twentieth century it has spread throughout the rest of the world , though in diverse forms . |
| 2 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 3 | The secular and religious authority enjoyed by this clan was recognized over the years in an ever wider area of the country , and during the seventh century the head of the clan used the title of emperor or empress on the Chinese model . |
| 4 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 6 | And during the sixteenth century the Crown exploited this massive reservoir of land and labour to effect a major increase in state power . |
| 7 | Diplomatic missions were received and sent from time to time , and during the sixteenth century Japanese traders and pirates dominated the seas of Southeast Asia , but both channels of contact virtually ceased in the seclusion period . |
| 8 | First , the winning of civil rights during and after the eighteenth century : in a number of important cases the courts developed the doctrine that the individual was free to do anything which was not made unlawful by a specific law ; and the corollary of this approach was that the state could not interfere with the civil and political liberties of its citizens ( in those days ‘ subjects ’ ) unless the government could persuade Parliament to pass legislation authorising the interference . |
| 9 | Football had been a traditionally rowdy and sometimes violent game , but as a regulated spectator sport it provided novel opportunities for conflicts between the players , referees and fans , and there is a well documented history of pitch invasions , attacks on referees and players , and fighting between rival fans throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century and into the new century . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 11 | The vast number of self-instituted independent organizations in the nineteenth century , and into the twentieth century , can in many cases be directly related to two related factors : the development of the teaching academy , with its tendency to prescribe rules ; and the greatly increased importance of the exhibition , within the market conditions which had succeeded patronage . |
| 12 | I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century . |
| 13 | After the revival in 1688 , the Kilwinning papingo shoot continued with only a few brief interruptions through the 18th and into the 19th century . |
| 14 | You 've said you want to bring your people out of the Dark Ages and into the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | And so ironically , although climate will be a factor in er this century and into the next century , it could be well to escape the sun . |
| 16 | The main impetus in Britain for measures to deal with age discrimination at the workplace — despite the current recession — derive from the so called demographic time bomb which will be increasingly felt by all organisations , public and private , during the 1990s and into the next century . |
| 17 | The changes aim to improve the high quality of our health service for everyone now and into the next century . |
| 18 | As this new world takes shape , America stands at the centre of a widening circle of freedom — today , tomorrow and into the next century … |
| 19 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
| 20 | Curving around the left bank of the Rhine , Cologne 's mighty Gothic cathedral dominates the city , and from the 4th century Roman palace beneath the new city hall to the many Romanesque churches , you 're never far from the past . |
| 21 | The first has been to satisfy the objective which has already been stated : to display identity by assuming ( and from the fourteenth century being granted ) arms of individual distinction . |
| 22 | Such piecemeal , not to mention conflicting , management of the marshes was no way to organize and control the ever-threatening flood-waters ; and from the mid-thirteenth century , the responsibility for land drainage and reclamation from the sea began to devolve upon successive ‘ commissions of sewers ’ , which were answerable to central government . |
| 23 | Distinct class variations could be observed , and from the mid-nineteenth century the existence of some form of class differentiation in family size had come to be accepted by most writers on the subject ; by the census of 1911 the difference in the fertility of certain groups was clearly marked . |
| 24 | Centaurus almost surrounds the Cross , and until the seventeenth century the Cross was not even classed as a separate constellation . |
| 25 | The French influence here was even greater than in Spain and in the eleventh century the northern region had broken free to become a satellite of Burgundy , though later it became independent . |
| 26 | Of the pianos made during the latter part of the 18th century and in the 19th century , those built in the English tradition most clearly demonstrate Cristofori 's design . |
| 27 | By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times . |
| 28 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 29 | The endowment fund for such masses was enormous and in the thirteenth century some system of regulation was required . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |