Example sentences of "in the [adj] century they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nineteenth century they were all categorised together as ‘ the Alderney or French breed ’ said to be bred chiefly on Alderney and to a lesser extent on the other islands . |
| 2 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 4 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 5 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 6 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 7 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 8 | Such statements are culturally and historically specific , and while their meanings are not fixed or static , in the twentieth century they are the products of capitalism , imperialism , and patriarchy . |
| 9 | These families may be described as a traditional élite ; in the twentieth century they either found new sources of wealth and influence or became local notables . |
| 10 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 11 | Once you are wrapped around by the cirque you realize that it is not beautiful but what in the eighteenth century they knew as ‘ sublime ’ . |
| 12 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 13 | In the eighteenth century they were joined by others — from Sweden after 1734 , from Prussia after 1758 . |
| 14 | In the sixteenth century they sought posts in estate administration , which brought a small fee to their holders but were probably more important as signs of royal favour and sources of patronage . |
| 15 | Back in the 10th century they would scoop out holes in the sand to get at the crude for medicinal purposes . |
| 16 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 17 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 18 | When the Cistercians , ‘ White Monks ’ , came from Burgundy in the twelfth century they sought ‘ wildernesses ’ for their life of vigorous contemplation . |
| 19 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 20 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 21 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 22 | As yet the numbers were modest , but late in the fourteenth century they became , in F. D. Logan 's words , ‘ a torrent ’ . |
| 23 | In the seventeenth century they were still often paid very irregularly . |